8 Best Electronics Courses for Beginners
We compared 8 Electronics courses currently listed on Coursera, Udemy and edX, priced from $19.99 to $199.99. 4 come from a named university or institution, including University of Rochester, University of California, Irvine and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. 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
- 8
- Price range
- $19.99 – $199.99
- Providers
- Coursera, Udemy, edX
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 8 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, Udemy, edX, matched to "electronics" 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 $19.99 to $199.99, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Fundamentals of Audio and Music Engineering: Part 1 Musical Sound & Electronics
Offered by University of Rochester
In this course students learn the basic concepts of acoustics and electronics and how they can applied to understand musical sound and make music with electronic instruments. Topics include: sound waves, musical sound, b...
$49.00listed price -
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Electronics for Beginners - The Full Guide
Electronics for Beginners – The Full GuideLearn Voltage, Current, Resistors & Circuits – A Complete Beginner’s Guide to ElectronicsAre you curious about how electronics work but don’t know where to start? Whether you...
$39.99listed price -
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An Introduction to Programming the Internet of Things (IOT)
Offered by University of California, Irvine
Design, create, and deploy a fun IoT device using Arduino and Raspberry Pi platforms. This Specialization covers embedded systems, the Raspberry Pi Platform, and the Arduino environment for building devices that can cont...
$49.00listed price -
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Learn Arduino as Beginner - Complete Course 2022
Are you excited about becoming a maker with the Arduino but get confused by tons of videos on the internet?If you answer "yes" , then this is an opportunity for you to get started !This course will cover each and everyth...
$19.99listed price -
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Introduction to Surface Mount Technology
In this course, you will learn Surface Mount Technology and master soldering Surface Mount Devices (SMD) in no time. With 122 lectures and 10 hours of HD content, including 5 hours of practical videos, an electronic main...
$199.99listed price -
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Introduction to Semiconductors, PN Junctions and Bipolar Junction Transistors
Offered by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
This online course uses engaging animations to help you visualize the operating principles of many common semiconductor devices. The course covers PN junctions, photodiodes, solar cells, light-emitting diodes, metal-semi...
$189.00listed price -
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Introduction to System on Chip Design
Offered by King's College London
A beginner’s course about the design and architecture of System-on-Chip (SoC) devices. Learn how today’s smart systems integrate computing, memory, and I/O on a single chip.
$99.00listed price -
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Introduction to the Internet of Things
Offered by Universitat Politècnica de València
This is a preliminary course in which we deal with the basics of electronics and programming using Arduino and ESP boards.
$39.00listed price
Best Electronics Courses for Beginners compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fundamentals of Audio and Music Engineering: Part 1 Musical Sound & El... | Coursera | University of Rochester | $49.00 | View → |
| 2 | Electronics for Beginners - The Full Guide | Udemy | — | $39.99 | View → |
| 3 | An Introduction to Programming the Internet of Things (IOT) | Coursera | University of California, Irvine | $49.00 | View → |
| 4 | Learn Arduino as Beginner - Complete Course 2022 | Udemy | — | $19.99 | View → |
| 5 | Introduction to Surface Mount Technology | Udemy | — | $199.99 | View → |
| 6 | Introduction to Semiconductors, PN Junctions and Bipolar Junction Tran... | edX | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | $189.00 | View → |
| 7 | Introduction to System on Chip Design | edX | King's College London | $99.00 | View → |
| 8 | Introduction to the Internet of Things | edX | Universitat Politècnica de València | $39.00 | 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 8 priced courses on this page run from $19.99 to $199.99, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $180.00. 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 Coursera, Udemy and edX. 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. 4 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Rochester, University of California, Irvine and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology — 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.