14 Best Computer Architecture Courses on edX
We compared 14 Computer Architecture courses currently listed on edX, priced from $49.00 to $540.00. 7 come from a named university or institution, including Harvey Mudd College, Graz University of Technology and Doane 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
- 14
- Price range
- $49.00 – $540.00
- Providers
- edX
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 14 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from edX, matched to "computer architecture" 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 $540.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Computer Architecture
Offered by Harvey Mudd College
This course in computer architecture will take you from an understanding of digital design using combinational logic and synchronous sequential building blocks to building your own single-cycle multicycle, and pipelined...
$189.00listed price -
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Computer Architecture Essentials on Arm
Offered by Arm Education
Arm’s 30-year-plus history of designing microprocessors helped fuel the technology revolutions of the modern world. This course will provide you with a fundamental understanding of the architecture of modern microprocess...
$99.00listed price -
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Computer Architecture with an Industrial RISC-V Core [RVfpga]
Offered by The Linux Foundation
Get a practical introduction to using RISC-V computer architecture based on a RISC-V system-on-chip (SoC) targeted to a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and to different simulation tools.
$149.00listed price -
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Cache Side-Channel Attacks and Mitigations
Offered by Graz University of Technology
Software-based side-channel attacks can pose a severe security threat in practice. In this course, we focus on a particularly prominent case: caches and cache side-channel attacks and we will go beyond the basic Flush+Re...
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Assembler Language
Offered by Doane University
This course enables the learner to implement modern, high-level programming language concepts in assembly language by learning and applying the foundational essentials of digital logic, computer organization, and low-lev...
$249.00listed price -
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Computer System Design: Advanced Concepts of Modern Microprocessors
Offered by Chalmers University of Technology
Learn about advanced computer design concepts, including how to make modern multicore-based computers both fast and energy efficient.
$49.00listed price -
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Introduction to Microprocessors
Offered by Arm Education
An introduction to computer architecture, microprocessors and CPUs. Learn about the basic components of a PC, what they do, how they talk to each other and how object code gets transformed into machine code. The topics c...
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Computer Science
Offered by Florida International University
This Computer Science course on edX is designed to equip you with foundational and advanced knowledge in various computer science concepts. You'll explore essential theories and practical applications, making it a compre...
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Quantum Computer Systems Design
Offered by University of Chicago
This course on Quantum Computer Systems Design offers insights into the architecture and functioning of quantum computers. You'll explore various quantum computing principles and how they apply to real-world problems. It...
$540.00listed price -
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Computer System Design: Concepts of Modern Microprocessors
Offered by Chalmers University of Technology
This course offers a deep dive into the concepts and architectures of modern microprocessors, a critical element in computer system design. You'll explore various microprocessor designs and how they integrate with system...
$88.20listed price -
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Building a RISC-V CPU Core
Offered by The Linux Foundation
Create a RISC-V CPU with modern open source circuit design tools, methodologies, and microarchitecture, all from your browser.
$189.00listed price -
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The Hardware of a Quantum Computer
Offered by Delft University of Technology
Learn how a quantum computer could be physically build, and how it could be controlled.
$185.00listed price -
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edX MOOC / Non-creditIntroduction to RISC-V
Offered by The Linux Foundation
Discover various aspects of RISC-V, including technical aspects, specifications and the community ecosystem.
$189.00listed price -
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edX MOOC / Non-creditFoundations of RISC-V Assembly Programming
Offered by The Linux Foundation
Gain basic hardware-related RISC-V assembly programming knowledge and skills.
$189.00listed price
Best Computer Architecture 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 13 priced courses on this page run from $49.00 to $540.00, with the middle of the range around $185.00 — a spread of $491.00. 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 Harvey Mudd College, Graz University of Technology and Doane 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.