25 Best Professional Development Courses Online
We compared 25 Professional Development courses currently listed on Coursera and Udemy, priced from $24.99 to $79.00. 19 come from a named university or institution, including University of Minnesota, MTF Institute and Unicamp. 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
- 25
- Price range
- $24.99 – $79.00
- Providers
- Coursera, Udemy
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 25 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, Udemy, matched to "professional development" 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 $24.99 to $79.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Accelerate: Professional Development with an Advanced Degree
Offered by University of Minnesota
This specialization helps graduate students, postdocs, and advanced degree holders take a strategic approach to professional development and career planning. Through four focused courses—on Individual Development Plans (...
$49.00listed price -
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Professional Development for Future-Ready Leadership
Offered by Skillshare
Cultivate great leadership communication at work that evolves overtime with social practice artist and entrepreneur Musa Murchison! There’s no one way to lead at work, and how you lead will transform over time, but there...
$49.00listed price -
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Professional Communication for Managers & Leaders
Offered by MTF Institute
Welcome to course: Communication Skills for Managers by MTF InstituteCourse provided by MTF Institute of Management, Technology and FinanceMTF Institute is a global educational and research institute headquartered in Lis...
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Como escolher o melhor para sua carreira
Offered by Unicamp
O curso é fundamentado na ideia de que a sua carreira deve ser administrada de maneira semelhante a que empresas administram seus produtos no mercado. A lógica deste curso se baseia na ideia de que a SUA CARREIRA É O SEU...
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Management, Motivation and Communication at Business Univers
Offered by Business Univers
In our language of motivation, motive is established as the driving force. Motivation motivates people and determines the direction of their movements, their thoughts, hopes, beliefs and desire; needs and fears.Motivatio...
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Women in Leadership: Inspiring Positive Change
Offered by Case Western Reserve University
This course aims to inspire and empower women and men across the world to engage in purposeful career development and take on leadership for important causes---to lead change with more conviction and confidence---and imp...
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Graphic Design
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
Welcome to Graphic Design, the second course in the Effective Communications Specialization. Over 70 different companies have provided this specialization to their employees as a resource for internal professional develo...
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How to Write a Resume (Project-Centered Course)
Offered by The State University of New York
What you’ll achieve: In this project-centered course*, you will craft an essential cornerstone of the modern-day job or internship search: the resume. You’ll review resume best practices and explore current trends with g...
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Communication Strategies for a Virtual Age
Offered by University of Toronto
Communication has changed! The traditional rules for speaking and presenting, meeting coordination, influencing people, negotiating and selling ideas no longer apply in a world of skype, messenger, video and teleconferen...
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Designing the Future of Work
Offered by UNSW Sydney (The University of New South Wales)
The workplace of tomorrow is an uncertain place. We live in a rapidly changing world, and design innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and big data are rapidly changing the fundamental nature of how...
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The Growth Mindset
Offered by University of California, Davis
Are you interested in expanding your career, and want to be a more creative and innovative employee who embraces problems and challenges, and thrives in those circumstances? This course will help you determine if you hav...
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Leadership and Influence
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The only thing you get to change is yourself, and in the prerequisites to this course we’ve given you real tools to do that. Now, use those tools to influence the course of your future, your team's future, and your organ...
$79.00listed price -
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Spanish for Successful Communication in Healthcare Settings
Offered by Rice University
Welcome to Spanish for Successful Communication in Healthcare Settings! This course is structured in four modules, each one revolving on a topic related to the physician-patient interaction. Each module contains four les...
$49.00listed price -
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Present with Purpose: Create/Deliver Effective Presentations
Offered by IBM
Knowing how to create a presentation is a powerful tool when it comes to communication. Presentations are a key part of every office or business related job and you need to have the skills to deliver a presentation that...
$49.00listed price -
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Professional IQ: Preventing and Solving Problems at Work
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
In this Specialization, Professional IQ: Preventing Solving Problems at Work, learners use real-world dilemmas and ethical problems experienced by professionals around the world to clarify and articulate their personal v...
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Professional Skills: Decision-Making
Offered by Arizona State University
Make smarter everyday choices regardless of your workplace setting. Learn ethical, strategic, and practical decision-making skills with guidance from ASU experts. Decision-making is a core skill that shapes professional...
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Professional Skills: Grit and Growth Mindset
Offered by Arizona State University
Unlock your potential to overcome setbacks and thrive with purpose. This course equips you with a resilient mindset built on grit, growth, and self-awareness. Success isn’t just about talent — it’s about perseverance, mi...
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Individual Development Plan (IDP)
Offered by University of Minnesota
Unlock your professional potential with our comprehensive course on mastering the Individual Development Plan (IDP). This course offers a structured approach to cultivating academic and professional success while buildin...
$49.00listed price -
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Adapting: Career Development
Offered by Macquarie University
Organisations are undergoing enormous changes in their structures and processes as they seek to take advantage of innovations in technology, remain competitive in Globalising markets, and deal with the increasing diversi...
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Influencing People Without Authority
Offered by University of Michigan
Influence is a critical skill in today’s workplace, especially when you don’t have formal authority. In Influencing People without Authority, you’ll build practical skills to communicate effectively, give and receive fee...
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Professional Skills: Managing Conflict
Offered by Arizona State University
Master the skills to manage conflict confidently in any setting. This course equips you to recognize conflict mindsets and adapt your response, whether in person, over the phone, or via email. Conflict is inevitable, but...
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Professional Skills: Managing a Team
Offered by Arizona State University
Managing a team requires more than subject matter expertise, it demands strong communication, emotional intelligence, and the ability to guide people through change, conflict, and growth. The Managing a Team specializati...
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Cross-Functional Collaboration
Offered by University of Colorado System
Oscar Munoz, the visionary former CEO of United Airlines, and Oxana Trotsenko, an adjunct professor of change leadership and a seasoned expert in organizational transformation, teach cross-functional collaboration. Oscar...
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The Hunt: Job-Searching and Career-Building with Purpose
Offered by Yale University
Navigating your next career move can feel overwhelming — especially in today’s dynamic and unpredictable job market. The Hunt offers a clear, actionable framework to help you make your next career leap more purpose-drive...
$49.00listed price -
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Leadership Out of the Box
Offered by Queen Mary University of London
This specialisation will provide you with a holistic set of tools, skills and frameworks to enable you to step up and lead more effectively. You will develop your own leadership identity, as you explore what it means to...
$49.00listed price
Best Professional Development Courses Online 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 25 priced courses on this page run from $24.99 to $79.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $54.01. 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 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. 19 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Minnesota, MTF Institute and Unicamp — 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.