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15 Best Text Classification Courses on Coursera

We compared 15 Text Classification courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $9.99 to $49.00. 3 come from a named university or institution, including IBM, Northeastern University and 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
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 "text classification" 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.

  1. 1
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade C Lowest price here

    Fine Tune BERT for Text Classification with TensorFlow

    Offered by Coursera

    This is a guided project on fine-tuning a Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding (BERT) model for text classification with TensorFlow. In this 2.5 hour long project, you will learn to preprocess and tokeni...

    $9.99
    listed price
  2. 2
    Coursera Certificate Grade A University-backed

    Generative AI for NLP with PyTorch

    Offered by IBM

    AI roles are forecast to grow more than 5x faster than the overall job market over the next decade (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics). Employers need professionals who can build, train, and deploy real-world models. This...

    $49.00
    listed price
  3. 3
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    Applied Natural Language Processing in Engineering Part 1

    Offered by Northeastern University

    Welcome to this course on applied natural language processing in engineering. This course is designed to provide you with an in-depth understanding of NLP, a pivotal area of artificial intelligence that empowers computer...

    $49.00
    listed price
  4. 4
    Coursera Certificate Grade A University-backed

    Generative AI for NLP with PyTorch Capstone Project

    Offered by IBM

    Get ready to put your Generative AI, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and PyTorch skills into action in this hands-on capstone project from IBM. During this course, you’ll solve a real-world text classification challen...

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

    Fundamentals of Natural Language Processing

    Offered by University of Colorado Boulder

    The field of natural language processing (NLP) aims at getting computers to perform useful and interesting tasks with human language. This course introduces students to the 3 pillars underlying modern NLP: probabilistic...

    $49.00
    listed price
  6. 6
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Transformers in Action: A Practical Approach to NLP and AI

    Offered by Board Infinity

    "This intermediate-level course takes you beyond AI theory into the practical world of Natural Language Processing (NLP) powered by Transformer architectures. You’ll trace the evolution of language models—from traditiona...

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

    Foundations of LLMs and Deep Learning for Text Analysis

    Offered by Packt

    This course introduces the foundational concepts of large language models (LLMs) and deep learning techniques for text analysis, a critical skill set in today’s AI-driven landscape. As organizations increasingly rely on...

    $49.00
    listed price
  8. 8
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Applied Generative AI & NLP with Python

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price
  9. 9
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Deep Learning: Recurrent Neural Networks with Python

    Offered by Packt

    With the exponential growth of user-generated data, mastering RNNs is essential for deep learning engineers to perform tasks like classification and prediction. Architectures such as RNNs, GRUs, and LSTMs are top choices...

    $49.00
    listed price
  10. 10
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Build Intelligent iOS Apps with Core ML 3: Learn & Apply AI

    Offered by EDUCBA

    Learners will apply machine learning models, design intuitive interfaces, and implement real-time image and text classification to build intelligent iOS applications. By completing this course, learners will gain hands-o...

    $49.00
    listed price
  11. 11
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Apply Natural Language Processing Techniques in Python

    Offered by EDUCBA

    By the end of this course, learners will be able to explain core Natural Language Processing (NLP) concepts, preprocess and normalize textual data, extract meaningful features, and apply machine learning algorithms to so...

    $49.00
    listed price
  12. 12
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Natural Language Processing - Probability Models in Python

    Offered by Packt

    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 you progress through th...

    $49.00
    listed price
  13. 13
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Modern Natural Language Processing

    Offered by Packt

    This specialization 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 throug...

    $49.00
    listed price
  14. 14
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade C

    Transformer Models and BERT Model - Deutsch

    Offered by Google Cloud

    En este curso, se presentan la arquitectura de transformadores y el modelo de Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT). Aprenderás sobre los componentes principales de la arquitectura de transformad...

    $49.00
    listed price
  15. 15
    Coursera Certificate Grade C

    Create Chatbots & NLP Apps

    Offered by Coursera

    Ready to transform customer interactions through intelligent conversation? This Short Course was created to help data analysts and professionals accomplish the development of sophisticated chatbot applications with natur...

    $49.00
    listed price

Best Text Classification 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. 3 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including IBM, Northeastern University and University of Colorado Boulder — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.

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