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.
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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...
$49.00listed price -
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
$49.00listed price -
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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...
$49.00listed 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
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