15 Best Well-being Courses on edX
We compared 15 Well-being courses currently listed on edX, priced from $50.00 to $582.30. 7 come from a named university or institution, including The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wageningen University & Research and Harvard 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
- $50.00 – $582.30
- 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 "well-being" 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 $50.00 to $582.30, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Well-Being and Positive Thinking
Offered by State Bank of India
The world has undergone significant transformations in recent years. The pace of change is rapid. We strive to achieve success in every aspect of our lives in this changing world. To maintain the pace, we need energy and...
$99.00listed price -
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Existential Well-being Counseling: A Person-centered Experiential Approach
Offered by KU Leuven
Explore existential themes in your personal and professional life. Develop strengths and counseling skills to improve your well-being and the well-being of others.
$59.00listed price -
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edX MOOC / Non-creditPositive Psychology and Well-Being: The Psychological, Biological, and Social Aspects of Happiness
Offered by Stanford Medicine
Harness the science of happiness to live a more meaningful and abundant life.
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The Art and Science of Human Flourishing: Essentials for Educators
Offered by The University of Wisconsin-Madison
Learn to teach, adapt or integrate the evidence-based Art and Science of Human Flourishing course, shown to enhance student well-being. Explore the Center for Healthy Minds well-being framework, review pedagogical approa...
$350.00listed price -
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Food, Nutrition and Health
Offered by Wageningen University & Research
This course delves into the intricate relationship between food, nutrition, and health, exploring how various dietary choices impact our well-being. You'll gain insights into nutritional science, dietary recommendations,...
$448.20listed price -
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Happiness in Leadership: Driving Team Success
Offered by Harvard University
In 'Happiness in Leadership: Driving Team Success', you'll explore the vital connection between effective leadership and team happiness. This course highlights strategies that enhance workplace morale, fostering an envir...
$582.30listed price -
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Managing Happiness
Offered by Harvard University
Managing Happiness encourages you to explore the science of happiness, allowing you to find your truest self. Through cutting-edge survey tools, the best research, and trends in social science, positive psychology, neuro...
$219.00listed price -
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Eating Disorders
Offered by Wesleyan University
This class provides an academic introduction to eating disorders grounded in “big ideas” and scientific information that have propelled the field forward. This course is designed for everybody, regardless of whether you...
$79.00listed price -
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Finding Purpose Across Your Life
Offered by University of California, Berkeley
Learn research-based techniques to hone your sense of purpose throughout life’s challenges and transitions. Leading scientists and educators will inspire you to connect with what brings meaning to your life and give you...
$149.00listed price -
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Fundamentals of Recovery
Offered by Université de Montréal
Recovery in mental health and addiction is much more than the absence of illness or mental disorders. It is in fact a process of continuous change by which people with the lived experience of a behavioral health problem...
$150.00listed price -
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Psychology of Stress, Health, and Coping
Offered by American Psychological Association
Stress is an unavoidable part of everyday life that can interfere with our thinking, strain our relationships, and even physically harm our bodies. In Psychology of Stress, Health, and Coping, you will learn about the ps...
$129.00listed price -
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Happier Employees and Return-On-Investment Course
Offered by The University of Texas at Austin
Happiness at work matters. For example, the happiest 20% of people earn 32% more than the least happy 20%! In this course, you’ll learn about things you can do to enhance both your own happiness and the happiness of yo...
$199.00listed price -
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Positive Psychology
Offered by American Psychological Association
In this course you will learn about positive psychology, the scientific study of how psychological states, such as happiness, and character strengths, such as optimism and gratitude, contribute to well-being. You will le...
$129.00listed price -
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Psychedelics and the Mind
Offered by University of California, Berkeley
UC Berkeley Professor David Presti skillfully navigates the science, culture, and history of psychedelics for both the novice learner and the curious expert interested in fact-based learning surrounding visionary substan...
$95.00listed price -
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Protecting Children in Humanitarian Settings
Offered by Columbia University
Strengthen your approach to protecting and promoting the wellbeing of children in humanitarian settings using the latest evidence on childhood adversity and drawing on experiences from child protection practitioners.
$50.00listed price
Best Well-being 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 $50.00 to $582.30, with the middle of the range around $149.00 — a spread of $532.30. 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 The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wageningen University & Research and Harvard University — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
Open the provider’s own page and check three things this comparison cannot tell you: when the course was last updated, what the syllabus actually covers in its later sections, and what recent learners say. Prices shown here are the provider’s listed price when we last rebuilt this page on 30 August 2026 — they change often, and a promotion can move them substantially. We earn a commission if you enrol through our links, which costs you nothing and never affects the order courses appear in.