8 Best Social Engineering Courses for Beginners
We compared 8 Social Engineering courses currently listed on Coursera and Udemy, priced from $24.99 to $199.99. 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
- 8
- Price range
- $24.99 – $199.99
- Providers
- Coursera, Udemy
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 8 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, Udemy, matched to "social engineering" 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 $199.99, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Fundamentals of Network Security and Cryptography
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...
$49.00listed price -
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The Beginners Cyber Security Awareness Training Course
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...
$49.00listed price -
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Ethical Hacking 2021: Beginners to Advanced level
Ethical Hacking: Beginners to Advanced level.Latest Kali Linux 2020: Hack into systems like a black hat hacker using the best hacking tools.This course is going to highly practical.What we cover in this course:Physical H...
$24.99listed price -
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![Penetration Testing Basics for Beginners (PTBB) [Arabic]](https://i.udemycdn.com/course/480x270/5680314_1f94_4.jpg)
Penetration Testing Basics for Beginners (PTBB) [Arabic]
تعتبر هذه الدورة بمثابة حجر الاساس و الركيزة الاساسية اللي يتم من خلالها تاكيد و ارساء المفاهيم بشكل مفصل والتي بمجرد الانتهاء منها تكون على اتم الاستعداد لتكملة مستقبلك في مجال امن المعلومات في القسم التي فضلته خلال فتر...
$74.99listed price -
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Cybersecurity Fundamentals Cert Masterclass
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence. However, every lecture recording involves me reading the scripts, and I am fully involved in scripting and production. Be careful buying courses with instructors t...
$89.99listed price -
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Cyber Security Fundamentals for Beginners
This beginner-friendly course teaches the essential concepts and skills of cyber security using clear, real-world examples. You will learn how to protect your personal information, digital accounts, and devices from comm...
$29.99listed price -
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Introduction to Security Awareness Campaigns
Security Awareness Campaigns is about the components and reality of what makes awareness campaigns successful and which components are needed in it. This course will cover the basics of a security awareness campaign tha...
$29.99listed price -
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The Beginners Guide to Practical Cyber Hacking Skills
Bootcamp-style learning for real-world cyber readinessYou don’t need a degree to break into cybersecurity, you need real skills. This course cuts through the noise and gives you hands-on training with the tools professio...
$199.99listed price
Best Social Engineering Courses for Beginners compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
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| 1 | Fundamentals of Network Security and Cryptography | Coursera | Packt | $49.00 | View → |
| 2 | The Beginners Cyber Security Awareness Training Course | Coursera | Packt | $49.00 | View → |
| 3 | Ethical Hacking 2021: Beginners to Advanced level | Udemy | — | $24.99 | View → |
| 4 | Penetration Testing Basics for Beginners (PTBB) [Arabic] | Udemy | — | $74.99 | View → |
| 5 | Cybersecurity Fundamentals Cert Masterclass | Udemy | — | $89.99 | View → |
| 6 | Cyber Security Fundamentals for Beginners | Udemy | — | $29.99 | View → |
| 7 | Introduction to Security Awareness Campaigns | Udemy | — | $29.99 | View → |
| 8 | The Beginners Guide to Practical Cyber Hacking Skills | Udemy | — | $199.99 | 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 8 priced courses on this page run from $24.99 to $199.99, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $175.00. 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 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.
Before you enrol
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