15 Best Simulation Courses on edX
We compared 15 Simulation courses currently listed on edX, priced from $59.00 to $833.33. 7 come from a named university or institution, including Dartmouth College, The University of Edinburgh and Purdue University. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 15
- Price range
- $59.00 – $833.33
- Providers
- edX
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from edX, matched to "simulation" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $59.00 to $833.33, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Simulation for Digital Transformation
Offered by Dartmouth College
With Dartmouth Engineering, discover how to tackle complex challenges with Simulation for Digital Transformation. Learn to use Python and SimPy to model, analyze, and optimize systems, empowering you to make data-driven...
$149.00listed price -
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Modeling and Simulation of Multibody Systems
Offered by Université catholique de Louvain
This course focuses on modeling and simulating multibody systems, essential for understanding dynamics in engineering applications. You'll explore the principles that govern movement and interaction of interconnected bod...
$250.20listed price -
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Modeling and Simulation of Multibody Systems - Part II
Offered by Université catholique de Louvain
90% of daily life multibody systems contain loops of bodies, e.g. vehicle or bike suspensions, parallel manipulators or robots, and musculoskeletal systems. They can also include joint constraints. In this second course...
$139.00listed price -
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Modeling and Simulation of Multibody Systems - Part I
Offered by Université catholique de Louvain
Vehicles, bicycles, cranes, human body and robots are multibody systems. Learn how to model them and compute their kinematic and dynamic characteristics, such as velocities, accelerations and forces.
$139.00listed price -
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Breeding Programme Modelling with AlphaSimR
Offered by The University of Edinburgh
Breeding programmes are key to the genetic improvement of plant varieties and animal breeds used in agriculture. This unique course shows how to model an existing or new breeding programme and the evaluation of alternati...
$59.00listed price -
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DELMIA Virtual Factory for Education
Offered by Dassault Systèmes
This fundamental course introduces learners to designing, programming, simulating, and optimizing a virtual factory and robots using the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Participants will learn to build a virtual...
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Applied Quantum Computing I: Fundamentals
Offered by Purdue University
Learn the fundamental postulates of quantum mechanics and how they can be mapped onto present-day quantum information processing models, including computation, simulation, optimization, and machine learning.
$833.33listed price -
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Machine Dynamics Hands-On
Offered by RWTH Aachen University
Learn the basics of machine dynamics and use them to model, simulate and analyze the behavior of a car with the powerful tools provided by The MathWorks.
$129.00listed price -
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Quantum Hardware and its Applications with Quantum Inspire
Offered by Delft University of Technology
Learn the fundamentals of quantum hardware and experiment with QuTech's simulators to gain hands-on experience with quantum computing.
$150.00listed price -
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Wargaming and Strategy
Offered by King's College London
Learn how wargaming can illuminate strategic thinking and help shape decision-making in today's uncertain geopolitical landscape.
$249.00listed price -
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Model-Based Automotive Systems Engineering
Offered by Chalmers University of Technology
Learn how to model and simulate system dynamics in automotive engineering
$249.00listed price -
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edX MOOC / Non-creditSimulating a Quadcopter's Flight
Offered by MathWorks
Gain the skills to model the mechanical subsystems, analyze flight dynamics, and refine a quadcopter simulation.
$59.00listed price -
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edX MOOC / Non-creditIntroduction to Engineering Design
Offered by MathWorks
Gain a comprehensive overview of the engineering design workflow through the power of modeling and simulation.
$59.00listed price -
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edX MOOC / Non-creditEmbedded Systems Essentials with Arm: Get Started with the micro:bit
Offered by Arm Education
Get hands-on with code. Design and simulate embedded systems using Python and the micro:bit.
$99.00listed price -
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edX MOOC / Non-creditEmbedded Systems Essentials with Arm: Getting Started
Offered by Arm Education
Get hands-on with code. Design and simulate embedded systems using Python and the micro:bit.
$99.00listed price
Best Simulation Courses on edX compared
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 14 priced courses on this page run from $59.00 to $833.33, with the middle of the range around $139.00 — a spread of $774.33. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from edX. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 7 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Dartmouth College, The University of Edinburgh and Purdue University — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
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