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Best parallel programming Courses Online

We compared 11 Parallel Programming courses currently listed on Coursera and Udemy, priced from $19.99 to $99.99. 4 come from a named university or institution, including Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Rice 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.

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  1. 1
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Parallel programming

    Offered by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

    With every smartphone and computer now boasting multiple processors, the use of functional ideas to facilitate parallel programming is becoming increasingly widespread. In this course, you'll learn the fundamentals of pa...

    $79.00
    listed price
  2. 2
    Coursera Certificate Grade B

    Concurrent and Parallel Programming in Python

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price
  3. 3
    Udemy Certificate Grade C

    Concurrent and Parallel Programming in Python

    In this course you'll learn how to create multi-threaded, asynchronous, and multi-process programs in Python, so that you can make your programs run even faster.In applications communicating with other resources, a lot o...

    $99.99
    listed price
  4. 4
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    Multicore and GPGPU Programming

    Offered by Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani

    The course "Multicore and GPGPU Programming" provides a foundational understanding of parallel programming, focusing on developing high-performance, multi-threaded applications in both CPU and GPU environments. Beginning...

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

    Parallel, Concurrent, and Distributed Programming in Java

    Offered by Rice University

    Parallel, concurrent, and distributed programming underlies software in multiple domains, ranging from biomedical research to financial services. This specialization is intended for anyone with a basic knowledge of seque...

    $49.00
    listed price
  6. 6
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    CUDA at Scale for the Enterprise

    Offered by Johns Hopkins University

    This course will aid in students in learning in concepts that scale the use of GPUs and the CPUs that manage their use beyond the most common consumer-grade GPU installations. They will learn how to manage asynchronous w...

    $49.00
    listed price
  7. 7
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    Concurrency in Go

    Offered by University of California, Irvine

    Learn how to implement concurrent programming in Go. Explore the roles of channels and goroutines in implementing concurrency. Topics include writing goroutines and implementing channels for communications between gorout...

    $69.00
    listed price
  8. 8
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Go for Python Developers

    Offered by Codio

    Code and run your first Go program in minutes without installing anything! This course is designed for learners who are already familiar with development practices in a modern programming language such as Python to be qu...

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

    Effective Programming in Scala

    Offered by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

    Scala is an expressive, versatile, and safe programming language. In this course, you will learn how to get the most out of Scala to solve common programming tasks such as modeling business domains, breaking down complex...

    $79.00
    listed price
  10. 10
    Udemy Certificate Grade B Lowest price here

    Parallel computing using MPI

    In this course theoretical as well as practical concepts of parallel programming are explained. In chapter 1, introduction to parallel computing, levels of parallelism and applications of parallel computing are explained...

    $19.99
    listed price
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    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Functional Programming in Scala

    Offered by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

    Discover how to write elegant code that works the first time it is run. This Specialization provides a hands-on introduction to functional programming using the widespread programming language, Scala. It begins from the...

    $49.00
    listed price

What the prices here tell you

The 11 priced courses on this page run from $19.99 to $99.99, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $80.00. 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 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. 4 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Rice University and Johns Hopkins University — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.

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