15 Best Business Model Courses Online
We compared 15 Business Model courses currently listed on edX, Udemy and Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $536.40. 10 come from a named university or institution, including Delft University of Technology, University of Cape Town and Michigan State 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
- $49.00 – $536.40
- Providers
- edX, Udemy, Coursera
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from edX, Udemy, Coursera, matched to "business model" 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 $49.00 to $536.40, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Business Model Innovation
Offered by Delft University of Technology
This course focuses on business model innovation, helping professionals understand and adapt their business strategies in a rapidly changing market. It covers frameworks and tools necessary for identifying and implementi...
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2
Mastering SaaS Business Model with ChatGPT
“This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.”If you are trying to build, evaluate, or improve a SaaS business but still feel like the business model is fuzzy, this course is designed for you.Maybe you have a...
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Business Models for Technology Innovators
Offered by Arm Education
Engineers and technology innovators need to understand how their contribution fits into the bigger picture. At the heart of this is the business model. Learn through a series of case studies how to understand and deploy...
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Building Fintech Startups in Emerging Markets
Offered by University of Cape Town
Starting a small business can be very rewarding. This course starts by asking “What is entrepreneurship?” to then begin applying commonly used business planning tools, such as design thinking and business model canvas. D...
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Planning: Principled, Proposing, Proofing, and Practicing to a Success Plan
Offered by Michigan State University
According to Steven Blank a business startup, or any new venture startup is essentially a proto-type. Thus the startup process essentially becomes a learning process to refine that business proto-type into a scalable, re...
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Capstone Course: Start Up Your Fintech Future
Offered by University of Cape Town
This is the final course in the Fintech Emerging Markets specialization. This course assumes you have completed the first three courses of this specialization. For this capstone project, you will need to prepare a busine...
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Technology Entrepreneurship
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
A new paradigm in entrepreneurship has replaced the model of the Silicon Valley startup garage with laptop computers and distributed networks. In this new paradigm, founders, partners, and critical startup resources may...
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Startup Entrepreneurship
Offered by Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
The Startup Entrepreneurship specialization focuses on issues of Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship. It leads the students through the entire process of creating a start-up from an idea. Part One deals with idea...
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Entrepreneurship: Launching an Innovative Business
Offered by University of Maryland, College Park
Develop your entrepreneurial mindset and skill sets, learn how to bring innovations to market, and craft a business model to successfully launch your new business. The Entrepreneurship Specialization examines the entrepr...
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Entrepreneurship I: Laying the Foundation
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
This course will explore the earlier stages of the entrepreneurial venture process across four modules. The modules will examine the nature of growth and error in entrepreneurial settings and how to manage resources in t...
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Information Technology Entrepreneurship & Startup
Offered by University of Minnesota
This specialization equips aspiring entrepreneurs with the skills to develop and launch IT-based startups. You will learn to use existing frameworks to systematically identify opportunities, transform ideas into viable p...
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Educate Skills for Startups
Offered by Macquarie University
This entrepreneurship Specialization guides founders in developing and refining their startup ideas through expert-led sessions, each taught by a different industry specialist. Together, these experts bring thousands of...
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Innovation: From Creativity to Entrepreneurship Capstone
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The capstone for the specialization will provide a learning experience that integrates across all the courses within it. It will involve analysis of a situation concerning a new enterprise – a venture of one’s own or wit...
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Entrepreneurship: Ideation and Exploring Fundamentals
Offered by Creo Incubator
The CREO Entrepreneurship: Ideation and Exploring Fundamentals Course introduces learners to entrepreneurship as a career path and practical discipline. The course is designed for individuals who are curious about starti...
$49.00listed price -
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Building a Lean Startup
Offered by Davidson College
Based on Eric Ries's influential book The Lean Startup , this course will bring your business idea to life with the help of time-tested tools and strategies employed by some of the world’s most successful startups.
$99.00listed price
Best Business Model Courses Online compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Business Model Innovation | edX | Delft University of Technology | $536.40 | View → |
| 2 | Mastering SaaS Business Model with ChatGPT | Udemy | — | $199.99 | View → |
| 3 | Business Models for Technology Innovators | edX | Arm Education | $99.00 | View → |
| 4 | Building Fintech Startups in Emerging Markets | Coursera | University of Cape Town | $49.00 | View → |
| 5 | Planning: Principled, Proposing, Proofing, and Practicing to a Success... | Coursera | Michigan State University | $79.00 | View → |
| 6 | Capstone Course: Start Up Your Fintech Future | Coursera | University of Cape Town | $49.00 | View → |
| 7 | Technology Entrepreneurship | Coursera | University of Colorado Boulder | $49.00 | View → |
| 8 | Startup Entrepreneurship | Coursera | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | $49.00 | View → |
| 9 | Entrepreneurship: Launching an Innovative Business | Coursera | University of Maryland, College Park | $49.00 | View → |
| 10 | Entrepreneurship I: Laying the Foundation | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $79.00 | View → |
| 11 | Information Technology Entrepreneurship & Startup | Coursera | University of Minnesota | $49.00 | View → |
| 12 | Educate Skills for Startups | Coursera | Macquarie University | $49.00 | View → |
| 13 | Innovation: From Creativity to Entrepreneurship Capstone | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $79.00 | View → |
| 14 | Entrepreneurship: Ideation and Exploring Fundamentals | Coursera | Creo Incubator | $49.00 | View → |
| 15 | Building a Lean Startup | edX | Davidson College | $99.00 | View → |
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 15 priced courses on this page run from $49.00 to $536.40, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $487.40. 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, Udemy and Coursera. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion. 10 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Delft University of Technology, University of Cape Town and Michigan State 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 18 September 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.