25 Best Optimization Courses Online
We compared 25 Optimization courses currently listed on edX, Coursera and Udemy, priced from $19.99 to $672.30. 13 come from a named university or institution, including Seoul National University, RWTH Aachen University and Stanford 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
- 25
- Price range
- $19.99 – $672.30
- Providers
- edX, Coursera, Udemy
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 25 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from edX, Coursera, Udemy, matched to "optimization" 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 $672.30, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Introduction to Optimization
Offered by Seoul National University
A self-contained course on the fundamentals of modern optimization with equal emphasis on theory, implementation, and application. We consider linear and nonlinear optimization problems, including network flow problems a...
$54.00listed price -
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Mathematical Optimization for Engineers
Offered by RWTH Aachen University
Learn the mathematical and computational basics for applying optimization successfully. Master the different formulations and the important concepts behind their solution methods. Learn to implement and solve optimizatio...
$119.00listed price -
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Web Dev: Optimization, Server Processing, and JavaScript
Offered by Logical Operations
To round out your web-development skills, you'll improve web content by adjusting layouts, performing basic search-engine optimization (SEO), and test your website for issues. You'll also submit data to a web server for...
$49.00listed price -
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Telehealth: Strategy, Implementation, and Optimization
Offered by Stanford University
This course focuses on the strategic aspects of telehealth, guiding you through its implementation and optimization processes. You'll explore how to design effective telehealth systems that address real-world health chal...
$672.30listed price -
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Optimization with Python: Solve Operations Research Problems
Operational planning and long term planning for companies are more complex in recent years. Information changes fast, and the decision making is a hard task. Therefore, optimization algorithms (operations research)...
$19.99listed price -
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AI Traffic Analysis and Optimization
Offered by Coursera
By completing this course, you will be able to measure, analyze, and optimize AI-driven SEO performance using traffic data, attribution reports, and key performance indicators. AI Traffic Analysis and Optimization focuse...
$49.00listed price -
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Metaheuristic Optimization Techniques with Matlab
This course is your introduction to the world of optimization techniques. If you know Matlab or pythons and want to learn how to find the best solution for any problem then this course is for you.In this course, we will...
$19.99listed price -
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Artificial Intelligence: Optimization Algorithms in Python
What would an “optimal world” look like to you? Would people get along better? Would transport run faster? Would we take better care of our environment?Many data scientists choose to optimize by using pre-built machine l...
$199.99listed price -
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Introduction to optimization on smooth manifolds: first order methods
Offered by École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Learn to optimize on smooth, nonlinear spaces: Join us to build your foundations (starting at "what is a manifold?") and confidently implement your first algorithm (Riemannian gradient descent).
$75.00listed price -
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edX MOOC / Non-creditOptimization: principles and algorithms - Unconstrained nonlinear optimization
Offered by École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Introduction to unconstrained nonlinear optimization, Newton’s algorithms and descent methods.
$59.00listed price -
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Business Analytics with Excel: Intermediate to Advanced
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
This Business Analytics course in Excel is the second of a three part series, with the intended audience business professionals, MBA students, advanced undergraduates, and analysts who already understand basic analytics...
$49.00listed price -
12
Computational Methods in Pricing and Model Calibration
Offered by Columbia University
This course focuses on computational methods in option and interest rate, product’s pricing and model calibration. The first module will introduce different types of options in the market, followed by an in-depth discuss...
$99.00listed price -
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Mathematics for Machine Learning
Offered by Imperial College London
For a lot of higher level courses in Machine Learning and Data Science, you find you need to freshen up on the basics in mathematics - stuff you may have studied before in school or university, but which was taught in an...
$49.00listed price -
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Algebra and Differential Calculus for Data Science
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
Are you interested in Data Science but lack the math background for it? Has math always been a tough subject that you tend to avoid? This course will teach you the most fundamental Calculus concepts that you will need fo...
$49.00listed price -
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DevOps, DataOps, MLOps
Offered by Duke University
Learn how to apply Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) to solve real-world problems. The course covers end-to-end solutions with Artificial Intelligence (AI) pair programming using technologies like GitHub Copilot to bui...
$49.00listed price -
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Advanced Algorithms and Complexity
Offered by University of California San Diego
In previous courses of our online specialization you've learned the basic algorithms, and now you are ready to step into the area of more complex problems and algorithms to solve them. Advanced algorithms build upon basi...
$79.00listed price -
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Differential Calculus Fundamentals
Offered by University of Huddersfield
Master the essential concepts of differential calculus and develop expertise in analyzing rates of change and solving optimization problems. In this comprehensive course, you'll learn to calculate derivatives from first...
$49.00listed price -
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Analytics for Decision Making
Offered by University of Minnesota
The field of analytics is typically built on four pillars: Descriptive Analytics, Predictive Analytics, Causal Analytics, and Prescriptive Analytics. Descriptive analytics (e.g., visualization, BI) deal with the explorat...
$49.00listed price -
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Dynamic Programming, Greedy Algorithms
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
This course covers basic algorithm design techniques such as divide and conquer, dynamic programming, and greedy algorithms. It concludes with a brief introduction to intractability (NP-completeness) and using linear/int...
$99.00listed price -
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Applied AI for Engineers and Scientists: Foundations
Offered by University of Glasgow
This Specialization is designed for engineering and general science students to learn and apply AI techniques most effectively and efficiently. Unlike Specializations for computer science students, the most popular and e...
$49.00listed price -
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Differential Calculus through Data and Modeling
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
This specialization provides an introduction to topics in single and multivariable calculus, and focuses on using calculus to address questions in the natural and social sciences. Students will learn to use the tools of...
$49.00listed price -
22
Mathematical Foundations of AI
Offered by RWTH Aachen University
"Mathematical Foundatiouns of AI" offers a rigorous introduction to the fundamental concepts of linear algebra, calculus, and optimization theory that form the mathematical basis of machine learning, data science, deep l...
$99.00listed price -
23
Business Analytics with Excel
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
This specialization equips learners to build, solve, and interpret sophisticated optimization and simulation models using Excel. Through hands-on application of Excel Solver and a wide variety of formulas, students tackl...
$49.00listed price -
24
Exporting and Integrating Assets into Unreal Engine 5
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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Operations Research
Offered by National Taiwan University
This Specialization is intended for undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of business, management, and engineering seeking to learn optimization techniques and applications. Through four courses, we will cove...
$49.00listed price
Best Optimization 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 25 priced courses on this page run from $19.99 to $672.30, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $652.31. 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 edX, 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. 13 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Seoul National University, RWTH Aachen University and Stanford University — 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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