6 Best Reinforcement Learning Courses on edX
We compared 6 Reinforcement Learning courses currently listed on edX, priced from $40.00 to $185.00. 2 come from a named university or institution, including RWTH Aachen University and Delft University of 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
- 6
- Price range
- $40.00 – $185.00
- Providers
- edX
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 6 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from edX, matched to "reinforcement learning" 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 $40.00 to $185.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Reinforcement Learning
Offered by RWTH Aachen University
This MOOC teaches the basics in reinforcement learning. It provides participants with a solid mathematical basis to study new methods from reinforcement learning research and put them into practice.
$99.00listed price -
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AI skills: Introduction to Unsupervised, Deep and Reinforcement Learning
Offered by Delft University of Technology
Learn the fundamentals and principal AI concepts about clustering, dimensionality reduction, reinforcement learning and deep learning to solve real-life problems.
$185.00listed price -
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Playing Games with Reinforcement Learning
Offered by CodeSignal
Learn the fundamentals of reinforcement learning by building a grid-world environment and training a Q-learning agent to navigate it. Explore agent-environment interaction, reward design, and exploration strategies.
$40.00listed price -
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Machine Learning: Deep & Reinforcement Learning
Offered by IBM
Get started in Reinforcement and Deep Learning! Explore the theory and practice behind neural networks, build deep learning models, and study modern architectures used in today’s AI applications.
$149.00listed price -
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Fundamentos de Inteligencia Artificial
Offered by IBM
The course introduces core artificial intelligence concepts, covering topics such as search strategies, knowledge representation, machine learning fundamentals, and ethical considerations. It walks through practical tool...
$117.00listed price -
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Mastering Generative AI: Advanced Fine-Tuning for LLMs
Offered by IBM
Build advanced, job-ready skills in fine-tuning using Hugging Face, reinforcement learning using proximal preference optimization (PPO), and optimal solutions for direct preference optimization (DPO).
$49.00listed price
Best Reinforcement Learning Courses on edX compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
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| 1 | Reinforcement Learning | edX | RWTH Aachen University | $99.00 | View → |
| 2 | AI skills: Introduction to Unsupervised, Deep and Reinforcement Learni... | edX | Delft University of Technology | $185.00 | View → |
| 3 | Playing Games with Reinforcement Learning | edX | CodeSignal | $40.00 | View → |
| 4 | Machine Learning: Deep & Reinforcement Learning | edX | IBM | $149.00 | View → |
| 5 | Fundamentos de Inteligencia Artificial | edX | IBM | $117.00 | View → |
| 6 | Mastering Generative AI: Advanced Fine-Tuning for LLMs | edX | IBM | $49.00 | 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 6 priced courses on this page run from $40.00 to $185.00, with the middle of the range around $117.00 — a spread of $145.00. 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. 2 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including RWTH Aachen University and Delft University of Technology — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
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