15 Best Social Media Courses on Coursera
We compared 15 Social Media courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $9.99 to $49.00. 5 come from a named university or institution, including University of Colorado Boulder, Northwestern University and Johns Hopkins 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
- $9.99 – $49.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "social media" 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 $9.99 to $49.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Social Media as a Marketing Tool in Business Communication
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
This Specialization focuses on using social media as a marketing tool in business communication and development. Learners will be oriented to the social media environment and encouraged to consider the role of these plat...
$49.00listed price -
2
Social Media Marketing
Offered by Northwestern University
Created in 2014, this Specialization is updated every quarter to ensure you are receiving the most up-to-date training. The Social Media Marketing Specialization is designed to achieve two objectives. It gives you the so...
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3
Artificial Intelligence in Social Media Analytics
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
In the course "Artificial Intelligence in Social Media Analytics", learners will explore the intersection of artificial intelligence and social media analytics, equipping them with essential skills to navigate and analyz...
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Ethical Social Media
Offered by The University of Sydney
Social media connects us across space and time, allowing us to find like-minded communities and participate creatively in public life as never before. We may often use social media without thinking much about the possibl...
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5
Social Media Marketing in Practice
Offered by Digital Marketing Institute
Welcome to the Digital Marketing Institute, the global standard in Digital Marketing certification. Over 4.6 billion people globally are using social media in 2022. This explosive growth, coupled with the speed of innova...
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6
Digital Marketing: SEO, PPC & Social Media
Offered by EDUCBA
Learn how to combine SEO, PPC, and social media marketing to build powerful digital campaigns that drive traffic, engagement, and measurable results. This course provides a complete introduction to digital marketing, hel...
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7
Online Marketing: Social Media, Ads & E-commerce Certificate
Offered by SkillUp
Want to turn clicks into customers with the strategies top brands use to dominate digital ads, social media, and e-commerce? This program equips aspiring digital marketers, entrepreneurs, small business owners, social me...
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8
Social Selling: Leveraging Social Media for Sales Success
Offered by LearnQuest
This Specialization equips sales professionals, entrepreneurs, and growth-focused professionals with the skills needed to succeed in a digital-first sales environment. Across three courses, learners move from foundationa...
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9
Social Media Marketing and Brand Advocacy
Offered by Simplilearn
This two-course Social Media Marketing program equips you with the skills to excel digital marketing roles. Learn to attract new customers, engage them through digital channels, and drive transactions. Delve into behavio...
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Social Media Content and Strategy
Offered by Adobe
This Social Media Content Strategy course is built for aspiring and professional content creators who want to elevate their social media presence. In this course, you will learn how to create social media content that no...
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11
Branding & Social Media Marketing for Creatives
Offered by Skillshare
This Specialization is intended for artists, makers, designers, and creative entrepreneurs seeking to build a memorable brand and market their work through engaging digital content. Through three courses taught by Beth D...
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12
Campaign Execution, SEO & Social Media at Scale
Offered by Coursera
Campaign Execution, SEO & Social Media at Scale is an intermediate program for marketers who want to run modern, multi-channel growth work end to end—without losing the plot between strategy, execution, and measurement....
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13
Design Engaging Social Media Visuals Fast
Offered by Coursera
Ready to stop wrestling with cropped logos and pixelated graphics? Master the fundamentals of professional social media visual creation in under 90 minutes. This Short Course was created to help digital marketing profess...
$49.00listed price -
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Create and schedule content for social media with Later
Offered by Coursera
With this project, you will be able to discover Later, a platform that will allow you to program content for your social networks. You will be able to add quite attractive content to your social media accounts, and you w...
$9.99listed price -
15
Build a social media presence for your business using Canva
Offered by Coursera
This course focuses on building a vibrant social media presence for your small business using Canva, a user-friendly graphic design platform. You'll explore how to set your business goals, create standout logos, and deve...
$9.99listed price
Best Social Media Courses on Coursera 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 15 priced courses on this page run from $9.99 to $49.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $39.01. 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. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 5 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Colorado Boulder, Northwestern University and Johns Hopkins University — 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.