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15 Best Classification Courses on Coursera

We compared 15 Classification courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $9.99 to $79.00. 9 come from a named university or institution, including University of Colorado Boulder, Corporate Finance Institute and University of Washington. 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
$9.99 – $79.00
Providers
Coursera
Last updated
18 Sep 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen

Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "classification" 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 $9.99 to $79.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.

  1. 1
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    Classification Analysis

    Offered by University of Colorado Boulder

    The "Classification Analysis" course provides you with a comprehensive understanding of one of the fundamental supervised learning methods, classification. You will explore various classifiers, including KNN, decision tr...

    $49.00
    listed price
  2. 2
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    Classification - Fundamentals & Practical Applications

    Offered by Corporate Finance Institute

    Classification problems are one of the most common scenarios we face in data science. This course will help you understand and apply common algorithms to make predictions and drive decision-making in business. Whether yo...

    $49.00
    listed price
  3. 3
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade C Lowest price here

    AWS AutoGluon for Machine Learning Classification

    Offered by Coursera

    Hello everyone and welcome to this new hands-on project on ML classification with AWS AutoGluon. In this project, we will train several machine learning classifiers to detect and classify disease using a super powerful l...

    $9.99
    listed price
  4. 4
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    Machine Learning Foundations: A Case Study Approach

    Offered by University of Washington

    Do you have data and wonder what it can tell you? Do you need a deeper understanding of the core ways in which machine learning can improve your business? Do you want to be able to converse with specialists about anythin...

    $79.00
    listed price
  5. 5
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    Machine Learning: Algorithms in the Real World

    Offered by Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute

    This specialization is for professionals who have heard the buzz around machine learning and want to apply machine learning to data analysis and automation. Whether finance, medicine, engineering, business or other domai...

    $79.00
    listed price
  6. 6
    Coursera Certificate Grade A University-backed

    Accounting Data Analytics

    Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    This specialization develops learners’ analytics mindset and knowledge of data analytics tools and techniques. Specifically, this specialization develops learners' analytics skills by first introducing an analytic mindse...

    $49.00
    listed price
  7. 7
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    Supervised Learning and Its Applications in Marketing

    Offered by O.P. Jindal Global University

    Welcome to the Supervised Learning and Its Applications in Marketing course! Supervised learning is the process of making an algorithm to learn to map an input to a particular output. Supervised learning algorithms can h...

    $49.00
    listed price
  8. 8
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    Machine Learning and its Applications

    Offered by University of Glasgow

    This course provides a practical introduction to machine learning techniques for data analysis in MATLAB, focusing on widely used methods for real-world technical applications. You will begin by exploring the core concep...

    $49.00
    listed price
  9. 9
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    Artificial Intelligence in Social Media Analytics

    Offered by Johns Hopkins University

    In the course "Artificial Intelligence in Social Media Analytics", learners will explore the intersection of artificial intelligence and social media analytics, equipping them with essential skills to navigate and analyz...

    $49.00
    listed price
  10. 10
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    Reliability, Cloud Computing and Machine Learning

    Offered by Johns Hopkins University

    The course "Reliability, Cloud Computing and Machine Learning" explores advanced distributed database concepts, focusing on transaction management, reliability protocols, and data warehousing, while also diving deeper in...

    $49.00
    listed price
  11. 11
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    Large-Scale Database Systems

    Offered by Johns Hopkins University

    The specialization “Large-Scale Database Systems” is intended for post-graduate students seeking to develop advanced skills in distributed database systems, cloud computing, and machine learning. Through three comprehens...

    $49.00
    listed price
  12. 12
    Coursera Certificate Grade A University-backed

    Machine Learning for Trading

    Offered by Google Cloud & New York Institute of Finance

    This 3-course Specialization from Google Cloud and New York Institute of Finance (NYIF) is for finance professionals, including but not limited to hedge fund traders, analysts, day traders, those involved in investment m...

    $49.00
    listed price
  13. 13
    Coursera Master's Degree Grade A University-backed

    Data Mining Foundations and Practice

    Offered by University of Colorado Boulder

    The Data Mining specialization is intended for data science professionals and domain experts who want to learn the fundamental concepts and core techniques for discovering patterns in large-scale data sets. This speciali...

    $79.00
    listed price
  14. 14
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    Statistical Learning for Data Science

    Offered by University of Colorado Boulder

    Statistical Learning is a crucial specialization for those pursuing a career in data science or seeking to enhance their expertise in the field. This program builds upon your foundational knowledge of statistics and equi...

    $49.00
    listed price
  15. 15
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    Machine Learning

    Offered by O.P. Jindal Global University

    Ready to turn data into smarter decisions? This advanced Machine Learning course is designed for learners with basic Python skills and experience with predictive tools who want to build practical machine learning experti...

    $49.00
    listed price

Best Classification Courses on Coursera compared

# Course Provider Offered by Price
1 Classification Analysis Coursera University of Colorado Boulder $49.00 View →
2 Classification - Fundamentals & Practical Applications Coursera Corporate Finance Institute $49.00 View →
3 AWS AutoGluon for Machine Learning Classification Coursera Coursera $9.99 View →
4 Machine Learning Foundations: A Case Study Approach Coursera University of Washington $79.00 View →
5 Machine Learning: Algorithms in the Real World Coursera Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute $79.00 View →
6 Accounting Data Analytics Coursera University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign $49.00 View →
7 Supervised Learning and Its Applications in Marketing Coursera O.P. Jindal Global University $49.00 View →
8 Machine Learning and its Applications Coursera University of Glasgow $49.00 View →
9 Artificial Intelligence in Social Media Analytics Coursera Johns Hopkins University $49.00 View →
10 Reliability, Cloud Computing and Machine Learning Coursera Johns Hopkins University $49.00 View →
11 Large-Scale Database Systems Coursera Johns Hopkins University $49.00 View →
12 Machine Learning for Trading Coursera Google Cloud & New York Institute of Finance $49.00 View →
13 Data Mining Foundations and Practice Coursera University of Colorado Boulder $79.00 View →
14 Statistical Learning for Data Science Coursera University of Colorado Boulder $49.00 View →
15 Machine Learning Coursera O.P. Jindal Global University $49.00 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 $9.99 to $79.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $69.01. The options are closely priced, so cost is unlikely to be your deciding factor. 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 Coursera. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 9 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Colorado Boulder, Corporate Finance Institute and University of Washington — 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.

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