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15 Best ETL Courses for Beginners

We compared 15 ETL courses currently listed on Coursera, Udemy and edX, priced from $19.99 to $293.40. 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
$19.99 – $293.40
Providers
Coursera, Udemy, edX
Last updated
18 Sep 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen

Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, Udemy, edX, matched to this topic 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 $293.40, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.

  1. 1
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Introduction to Data Engineering on AWS

    Offered by Packt

    This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the co...

    $49.00
    listed price
  2. 2
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Introduction to Data Engineering

    Offered by IBM

    Start your journey in one of the fastest growing professions today with this beginner-friendly Data Engineering course! You will be introduced to the core concepts, processes, and tools you need to know in order to get a...

    $49.00
    listed price
  3. 3
    Coursera Certificate Grade B

    Data Warehouse Fundamentals

    Offered by IBM

    Whether you’re an aspiring data engineer, data architect, business analyst, or data scientist, strong data warehousing skills are a must. With the hands-on experience and competencies, you gain on this course, your resum...

    $49.00
    listed price
  4. 4
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Alteryx for Beginners

    Offered by Packt

    Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as yo...

    $49.00
    listed price
  5. 5
    Udemy MOOC / Non-credit Grade B Lowest price here

    Practical Data Engineering in GCP: Beginner to Advanced

    In this course, we will be creating a data lake using Google Cloud Storage and bring data warehouse capabilites to the data lake to form the lakehouse architecture using Google BigQuery. We will be building four no code...

    $19.99
    listed price
  6. 6
    Udemy Certificate Grade B

    Introduction to Data Warehouse

    A Data warehouse is a database that is used for data analysis and reporting. It is a central repository for all the data that is needed for reporting and analysis. Data and analytics have become indispensable to business...

    $19.99
    listed price
  7. 7
    Udemy Certificate Grade B

    Data Warehouse For Beginners

    This course is a beginners course that will show you how to implement enterprise data warehouse solution using Microsoft SQL Server ,Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services SSIS and Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools -SSD...

    $94.99
    listed price
  8. 8
    Udemy Certificate Grade B

    Learn ETL Testing & Data Warehouse fundamentals

    A hands-on tutorial that takes you from the ground up and gives you a solid understanding of Data Warehouse and ETL Testing concepts.What will you learn from this course?Learn why and where ETL is required with a real-ti...

    $199.99
    listed price
  9. 9
    Udemy Certificate Grade B

    KNIME Fundamentals Expand Excellence

    KNIME Masterclass - Expand ExcellenceLet’s face it. Data cleaning is always a big hassle, especially if we are short on time and want to deliver crucial data analysis insights to our audience.But how can we be more effic...

    $49.99
    listed price
  10. 10
    Udemy Certificate Grade C

    SQL Beginner to Advanced Level - Data Analytics

    Learn SQL from the beginning to becoming an expert analyzing data in SQL. This course takes you from having little or no knowledge of SQL to becoming highly proficient querying with SQL.Knowing SQL is highly important if...

    $24.99
    listed price
  11. 11
    Udemy Certificate Grade C

    Introduction to Cloud Data Analytics with Google BigQuery

    This course is designed for the students who are at their initial stage or at the beginner level in learning the data warehouse, cloud computing data visualization and Analytics.This course focuses on what cloud computin...

    $19.99
    listed price
  12. 12
    Udemy MOOC / Non-credit Grade C

    dbt Core From Scratch - Build Your First Project in 2 Hours

    Welcome to a comprehensive yet fast-paced onboarding course for dbt Core — the essential tool revolutionizing how data teams transform and manage data in the modern analytics stack. Over approximately 2 hours, this cours...

    $109.99
    listed price
  13. 13
    Udemy Certificate Grade C

    Introduction to Data Warehousing

    This course is an overview of basic data warehousing concepts, a guide for installing software and a step-by-step tutorial on using the software. This course is divided into three main sections:Data Warehousing BasicsWe...

    $19.99
    listed price
  14. 14
    edX MOOC / Non-credit Grade C

    SQL, ETL and BI Fundamentals

    Offered by IBM

    This course provides a solid grounding in SQL, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, and business intelligence concepts. You'll learn how to manipulate databases, streamline data integration, and generate meaningful...

    $293.40
    listed price
  15. 15
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade C

    Introduction to Data Engineering on Google Cloud - Español

    Offered by Google Cloud

    En este curso, aprenderás sobre la ingeniería de datos en Google Cloud, los roles y las responsabilidades de los ingenieros de datos y cómo estos se corresponden con las ofertas de Google Cloud. También aprenderás sobre...

    $49.00
    listed price

Best ETL Courses for Beginners 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 15 priced courses on this page run from $19.99 to $293.40, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $273.41. 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.

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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