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7 Best Science Courses on Coursera

We compared 7 Science courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $49.00. 6 come from a named university or institution, including University of Alberta, Johns Hopkins University and Siemens & University of Colorado Boulder. 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
7
Price range
$49.00 – $49.00
Providers
Coursera
Last updated
18 Sep 2026
How these 7 courses were chosen

Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "science" 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 $49.00 to $49.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.

  1. 1
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A Lowest price here University-backed

    Science & Religion 101

    Offered by University of Alberta

    This course examines the nature of both science and religion and attempts to explore the possible relationships between them. The primary purpose is to dispel the popular myth that science and religion are entrenched in...

    $49.00
    listed price
  2. 2
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    Precalculus: Periodic Functions

    Offered by Johns Hopkins University

    This course helps to build the foundational material to use mathematics as a tool to model, understand, and interpret the world around us. This is done through studying functions, their properties, and applications to da...

    $49.00
    listed price
  3. 3
    Coursera Certificate Grade A University-backed

    Applied Sustainability for Technical Managers

    Offered by Siemens & University of Colorado Boulder

    The “Applied Sustainability Principles for Technical Managers” Specialization, developed in collaboration with Siemens Digital Industries Software, is intended for working professionals seeking to incorporate sustainable...

    $49.00
    listed price
  4. 4
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World

    Offered by Leiden University

    Did you know that Arabic was for centuries the lingua franca in an area stretching from the south of Spain to the Chinese border? Did you know that the Middle East under Muslim rule in those days was the world’s beating...

    $49.00
    listed price
  5. 5
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    Beauty, Form & Function: An Exploration of Symmetry

    Offered by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    This course is for anyone interested in the fundamental principles of symmetry across various fields, including art, architecture, science, and engineering. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Analyze symme...

    $49.00
    listed price
  6. 6
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    Applied AI for Engineers and Scientists: Foundations

    Offered by University of Glasgow

    This Specialization is designed for engineering and general science students to learn and apply AI techniques most effectively and efficiently. Unlike Specializations for computer science students, the most popular and e...

    $49.00
    listed price
  7. 7
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade C

    Low Code Image Segmentation

    Offered by MathWorks

    This 1 hour course quickly teaches you how to segment images with MATLAB. You'll use apps to segment grayscale and color images. The apps generate code so you can apply the same steps to many images automatically. This c...

    $49.00
    listed price

Best Science Courses on Coursera compared

# Course Provider Offered by Price
1 Science & Religion 101 Coursera University of Alberta $49.00 View →
2 Precalculus: Periodic Functions Coursera Johns Hopkins University $49.00 View →
3 Applied Sustainability for Technical Managers Coursera Siemens & University of Colorado Boulder $49.00 View →
4 The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World Coursera Leiden University $49.00 View →
5 Beauty, Form & Function: An Exploration of Symmetry Coursera Nanyang Technological University, Singapore $49.00 View →
6 Applied AI for Engineers and Scientists: Foundations Coursera University of Glasgow $49.00 View →
7 Low Code Image Segmentation Coursera MathWorks $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 7 priced courses on this page run from $49.00 to $49.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $0.00. 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. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 6 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Alberta, Johns Hopkins University and Siemens & University of Colorado Boulder — 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.

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