15 Best Natural Language Processing Courses for Beginners
We compared 15 Natural Language Processing courses currently listed on Coursera, edX and Udemy, priced from $19.99 to $199.99. 14 of them teach the subject directly and 1 are built around a certification exam. 3 come from a named university or institution, including University of Colorado Boulder, Duke University and Maryville 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
- 15
- Price range
- $19.99 – $199.99
- Providers
- Coursera, edX, Udemy
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, edX, Udemy, matched to "natural language processing" 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 Natural Language Processing
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
The field of natural language processing (NLP) aims at getting computers to perform useful and interesting tasks with human language. This course introduces students to the 3 pillars underlying modern NLP: probabilistic...
$49.00listed price -
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Introduction to Natural Language Processing
Offered by CodeSignal
Build a practical foundation in natural language processing using Python. Learn to explore, preprocess, vectorize, and classify text data with common machine learning techniques.
$75.00listed price -
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Introduction to Machine Learning
Offered by Duke University
This course provides a foundational understanding of machine learning models (logistic regression, multilayer perceptrons, convolutional neural networks, natural language processing, etc.) and demonstrates how they can s...
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Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence
Offered by Maryville University
This Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence course is designed to give you a solid grounding in the essential concepts and techniques of AI. You'll explore different AI methodologies, l...
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5
Artificial Intelligence Bootcamp: A Beginner's journey
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the world, and this course is your complete beginner-friendly guide to understanding and using it with confidence. Artificial I...
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ChatGPT Tutorial for Complete Beginners 2023
ChatGPT is an innovative AI chatbot created by OpenAI, a leading AI research lab. As a natural language processing tool, ChatGPT has been trained on a massive corpus of text data and uses advanced machine learning algori...
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Azure AI Fundamentals and Machine learning
This course is designed for anyone who wants to learn about artificial intelligence (AI) and MLThis course introduces fundamentals concepts related to artificial intelligence (AI), and the services in Microsoft Azure tha...
$199.99listed price -
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Hugging Face Tutorial for Beginners
Welcome to the Hugging Face course. Hugging Face is a company and open-source community that focuses on natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI). It is best known for its Transformers library, w...
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Introduction to Large Language Models - Deutsch
Offered by Google Cloud
In diesem Einführungskurs im Microlearning-Format wird untersucht, was Large Language Models (LLM) sind, für welche Anwendungsfälle sie genutzt werden können und wie die LLM-Leistung durch Feinabstimmung von Prompts gest...
$49.00listed price -
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INTRODUCTION TO NARROW AI AND GENERAL AI
This course offers a straightforward introduction to Artificial Intelligence, focusing on the key distinctions between Narrow AI and General AI. Designed for complete beginners, it covers foundational concepts like Machi...
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Excel Mastery for ChatGPT : Unlock Data Magic For Beginners
Welcome to "Excel Mastery for ChatGPT Users: Unleashing Data Magic," where the synergy of Excel and ChatGPT transforms your data handling experience into a realm of unprecedented efficiency and intelligence.In this cours...
$69.99listed price -
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Introduction to Large Language Models - Español
Offered by Google Cloud
Este es un curso introductorio de microaprendizaje en el que se explora qué son los modelos de lenguaje grandes (LLM), sus casos de uso y cómo se puede utilizar el ajuste de instrucciones para mejorar el rendimiento de l...
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Introduction to Large Language Models
Offered by Google Cloud
This is an introductory level micro-learning course that explores what large language models (LLM) are, the use cases where they can be utilized, and how you can use prompt tuning to enhance LLM performance. It also cove...
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Conversation Design Fundamentals
Offered by Google Cloud
Conversation Design Fundamentals explores the foundational principles of conversation design used to craft engaging and effective chatbot experiences that emulate human-like experiences.
$20.00listed price -
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AI-900 Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals Exam Test 2026
Exam AI-900: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals Tests 2026 (Hotspot , Drag drop with full explanations details included )This exam is an opportunity for you to demonstrate knowledge of machine learning and AI concepts and r...
$19.99listed price
Best Natural Language Processing 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 14 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, edX and Udemy. 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. 3 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Colorado Boulder, Duke University and Maryville University — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Courses versus exam preparation
1 of the entries here are built around a certification exam rather than teaching Natural Language Processing from scratch. They are the right choice only if you already know the material and want to pass a specific exam; if you are starting out, pick one of the taught courses first and come back to exam preparation afterwards.
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.