15 Best System Administration Courses on Coursera
We compared 15 System Administration courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $49.00. 2 come from a named university or institution, including IBM and Illinois Tech. 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
- $49.00 – $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 "system administration" 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.
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Linux System Administration
Offered by Edureka
Linux runs most production servers, cloud platforms, and infrastructure, and administering it well is a command-line skill. This Specialization takes you from your first terminal command to managing users, automating tas...
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Foundations of Linux System Administration
Offered by Packt
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 course. Learn the essentials of Linux s...
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System Administration with IBM AIX: Beyond the Basics
Offered by IBM
Become an expert system administrator! This course dives deep into advanced topics like job scheduling with cron, at, and batch, backup and restore techniques, system startup processes, software management, networking co...
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Linux and Private Cloud Administration on IBM Power Systems
Offered by IBM
This specialization introduces Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administration and private cloud capabilities of IBM Systems. IBM Power servers will be used to demonstrate these concepts. Through three courses, you will l...
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Advanced Linux Administration and Shell Scripting
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...
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Advanced IT Tools, Career Prep, and System Management
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...
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Hands-on Introduction to Linux Commands and Shell Scripting
Offered by IBM
This course provides a practical understanding of common Linux / UNIX shell commands. In this beginner friendly course, you will learn about the Linux basics, Shell commands, and Bash shell scripting. You will begin this...
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Linux for Cloud and DevOps Engineers
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...
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Hardware and Operating System Foundations
Offered by Illinois Tech
This specialization consists of three courses and one capstone. The specialization provides a comprehensive introduction to the features, management, and security of both Windows and Linux operating systems. You will mas...
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Linux for Beginners: Foundations and Essential Operations
Offered by KodeKloud
Linux administration starts at the command line — and this course builds the skills you need to work there with confidence. You'll begin by setting up your learning environment and understanding how the LFCS certificatio...
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible
Offered by Red Hat
This course is intended for Linux system administrators and developers who need to automate provisioning, configuration, application deployment, and orchestration. Students learn how to install and configure Ansible on a...
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Docker Basics for DevOps
Offered by KodeKloud
Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications, whether on laptops, data center VMs, or the cloud. This course introduces Docker to an Absolute Beginner using rea...
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Complete LFCS Linux System Administrator Certification
Offered by KodeKloud
Linux system administrators are in demand across every industry that runs servers — nearly all of them. This program gives you a structured, hands-on path from your first Linux command to LFCS certification readiness. Yo...
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DevOps Pro: Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD & IaC
Offered by KodeKloud
This is a complete, skills-first program that takes you from Linux system administration to provisioning global cloud infrastructure with code. Across five courses, you'll build every layer of the modern DevOps stack — n...
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AI Infrastructure and Operations Fundamentals
Offered by NVIDIA
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is transforming society in many ways. From speech recognition to self-driving cars, to the immense possibilities offered by generative AI. AI technology provides enterprises with the compu...
$49.00listed price
Best System Administration 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 $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. 2 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including IBM and Illinois Tech — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
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