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15 Best Automation Engineering Courses Online

We compared 15 Automation Engineering courses currently listed on Udemy and Coursera, priced from $19.99 to $149.99. 4 come from a named university or institution, including Rutgers the State University of New Jersey, University of Colorado Boulder and Kennesaw State 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
$19.99 – $149.99
Providers
Udemy, Coursera
Last updated
18 Sep 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen

Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Udemy, Coursera, matched to "automation 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 $19.99 to $149.99, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.

  1. 1
    Udemy Certificate Grade B

    ISTQB Test Automation Engineering (CTAL-TAE) v2.0

    ¡Bienvenido al curso de ISTQB Test Automation Engineering (CTAL-TAE) v2.0!Este curso te permitirá potenciar tus habilidades en automatización de pruebas de software como nunca antes. Basado en el syllabus actualizado de...

    $34.99
    listed price
  2. 2
    Udemy Certificate Grade B Lowest price here

    ISTQB Test Automation Engineer (CTAL-TAE) v2.0 Prep Exams

    If you’re serious about passing ISTQB CTAL-TAE v2.0, you already know the hard part isn’t “reading the syllabus.” The hard part is practicing the right way: realistic questions and tricky distractors that teach you how...

    $19.99
    listed price
  3. 3
    Udemy Certificate Grade B

    HMI FactoryTalk Complete Course, PLC Allen Bradley PanelView

    HMI (HMIs), are a basic piece for any type of industrial programming and automation. HMI programming is applied in every industry, and as a future or current industrial programmer in automation world, you should know all...

    $24.99
    listed price
  4. 4
    Udemy MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    IEC 61511 – Functional Safety for Process Industry

    This course is designed to help you prepare for IEC 61511 – Functional Safety for Process Industry through structured, exam-focused practice. It is suitable for process safety engineers, automation engineers, instrumenta...

    $19.99
    listed price
  5. 5
    Udemy Certificate Grade C

    Generative AI in Testing: Revolutionize Your QA Processes

    Unlock the future of software testing with our Generative AI for Testers course! Designed for software testers, quality assurance professionals, and automation engineers, this course equips you with the essential skills...

    $19.99
    listed price
  6. 6
    Udemy Certificate Grade C

    Fundamentals, Electrical Industrial Controls &Motor Starters

    This course is all about Industrial controls topics which you need if you are starting your career as an automation and controls engineer. You will need this course if you are responsible about the process controls part...

    $39.99
    listed price
  7. 7
    Udemy MOOC / Non-credit Grade C

    Introduction to EtherCAT: real time Ethernet communication

    Understand how EtherCAT works: Industrial Ethernet for Real-Time ControlEtherCAT the high-performance industrial Ethernet protocol revolutionizing automation. This comprehensive course equips engineers, technicians, and...

    $109.99
    listed price
  8. 8
    Udemy Certificate Grade C

    Omron Plc Programming Basics - All In One

    Dear All ; First of all , this course is going to be update always.This is really important.Please Keep following and learning always. With this course you will learn to omron plc programming with cx-programmer and...

    $149.99
    listed price
  9. 9
    Udemy Certificate Grade C

    AutoCAD Electrical 2020 for Electrical & Automation Eng

    This course will help electrical & automation engineers to understand all features of AutoCAD Electrical 2020 and can use as a guide while creating control panel schematic & layout. The schematic d...

    $19.99
    listed price
  10. 10
    Udemy Certificate Grade C

    ISTQB Test Automation Engineering Zertifizierungskurs

    Betreten Sie das spannende und sich rasant entwickelnde Feld der Testautomatisierungs-Engineering mit diesem sorgfältig gestalteten Kurs. Der Kurs ist speziell darauf ausgerichtet, die Herausforderungen moderner Software...

    $19.99
    listed price
  11. 11
    Coursera Certificate Grade C

    Software QA & Test Automation Engineering

    Offered by Coursera

    Master comprehensive QA automation through this industry-expert led specialization that takes you from foundational web automation to advanced testing architectures. You'll gain hands-on experience with essential tools i...

    $49.00
    listed price
  12. 12
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    Quality Improvement in Healthcare Organizations

    Offered by Rutgers the State University of New Jersey

    Have you ever though that healthcare quality could be improved - either where you get health care treatment or where you delivery health care? Have you ever thought that there should be a way for you to determine the rel...

    $49.00
    listed price
  13. 13
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    Project Planning and Execution

    Offered by University of Colorado Boulder

    The goal of this second course of the Project Management specialization is to provide students with skills necessary to plan and execute traditional projects. Project managers must plan and manage complex projects constr...

    $99.00
    listed price
  14. 14
    Coursera Certificate Grade A University-backed

    Six Sigma Yellow Belt

    Offered by Kennesaw State University

    This specialization is for you if you are looking to learn more about Six Sigma or refresh your knowledge of the basic components of Six Sigma and Lean. Six Sigma skills are widely sought by employers both nationally and...

    $49.00
    listed price
  15. 15
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    Software Engineering: Implementation and Testing

    Offered by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

    Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is the process of developing software through planning, requirement analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance. This course focuses on the implementation and testing...

    $49.00
    listed price

Best Automation Engineering Courses Online 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 $19.99 to $149.99, with the middle of the range around $39.99 — a spread of $130.00. 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 Udemy and Coursera. 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. 4 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Rutgers the State University of New Jersey, University of Colorado Boulder and Kennesaw State 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.

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