How Does Coursera Pricing Work? Does Coursera Cost Money?

When talking about one of the most popular online education providers, Coursera is usually mentioned. While it is true that it is considered as one of the most popular online education providers, their pricing structure is not a thing that can be understood by everyone.

How does Coursera pricing work? For those who are wondering about how the Coursera pricing works, everything depends on the kind of program that you buy. For instance, there are a few courses that are free. It means you will not have to pay for anything to take these courses. In addition to the free courses, there are some other kinds of courses, including:

A single course: A single course is the kind of course with a one off payment. A single course means an individual course. This kind of course usually costs around $100. However, it is not always the case as the price can be more or less expensive. Everything depends on the course that you take.
A specialization: A specialization refers to a series of courses that only focuses on one core topic. You will need to pay the fee every month until you cancel the Specialization subscription.
A degree: For your information, there is a full degree or masters offered by a few institutes on Coursera. This offer is clearly not cheap. In order to complete a degree on Coursera, you will have to pay for around $15,000 to $25,000.

Coursera option	Goal	No. Courses	Length	Price	Billing	Free trial	Refund
Courses	Gain new knowledge	1,800+	4-12 hours	*Free or $49+	Per course	Yes	14 day
Guided Projects	Learn a new skill	2,300+	1-2 hours	$9.99+	Per course	No	14 day
Special-izations	Master a marketable Skill	1,500+	1-3 months	$39.99+ some *free content	Monthly or per unit	Yes	Cancel subs or 14 day
Professional Certificates	Get job ready for new career	100+	4-7 months	$39.99+	Monthly	Yes	Cancel subs
Coursera Plus	Access 90%+of Coursera content	7,000+	Various	$59 Or $399	Monthly or annually	Yes	Cancel subs or 14 day
MasterTrack Certificates	Take part of a Master’s degree	20+	4-7 months	From $2000	Per course orMonthly	No	Set by the partner university
Degrees	Earn a Degree	33+	2-4 years	From $9000	Pay as you go	No	Set by the partner university.
Coursera for business	Continuing professional development	5,000 plus	various	From $399 per user	Monthly or annually	Yes	Cancel subs

In addition to the fee for the course, you will need to pay for the membership subscription known as Coursera Plus. For the Coursera Plus, you will have to spend around $400 a year. By paying that amount, you will be able to get unlimited access to around 90% of the courses on offer with Coursera. With this, all the avid Coursera users or the ones who want to become one will save a lot of money.

There are a lot of colleges and educational institutes that you can access through Coursera Plus. The list includes:

Advancing Women in Product
Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute
Amazon Web Services
American Museum of Natural History
Arizona State University
Association of International Certified Professional Accountants
Atlassian
Autodesk
BCG
Berklee College of Music
Brightline Initiative
California Institute of the Arts
Caltech
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
CentraleSupélec
Cloudera
Columbia University
Commonwealth Education Trust
ConsenSys Academy
Copenhagen Business School
Coursera Project Network
Crece con Google
Cresça com o Google
Curtis Institute of Music
Duke University
École des Ponts ParisTech
École Polytechnique
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
EDHEC Business School
Eindhoven University of Technology
EIT Digital
emlyon business school
Emory University
Erasmus University Rotterdam
ESADE Business and Law School
ESCP Business School
ESSEC Business School
Exploratorium
Facebook
Fudan University
Fundação Instituto de Administração
Google
Google AR & VR
Google Cloud
H2O
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
HEC Paris
HSE University
HubSpot Academy
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
IE Business School
IESE Business School
Imperial College London
Indian School of Business
INSEAD
Insper
Institut Mines-Télécom
Institute for the Future
Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica
Intel
JetBrains
Johns Hopkins University
Koç University
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST)
LearnQuest
Lund University
Macquarie University
Match Teacher Residency
MathWorks
McMaster University
Michigan State University
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) / МГИМО (Московский государственный институт международных отношений МИД России)
Nanjing University
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI
National Research Tomsk State University
National Taiwan University
National University of Singapore
New York Institute of Finance
New York University
Northeastern University
Northwestern University
Novosibirsk State University
Palo Alto Networks
Peking University
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
Pohang University of Science and Technology
Politecnico di Milano
Relay Graduate School of Education
Rice University
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey
Saint Petersburg State University
Salesforce
Sapienza University of Rome
SAS
SberUniversity
Sciences Po
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
SV Academy
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Technische Universität München (TUM)
Tecnológico de Monterrey
Tel Aviv University
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The George Washington University
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
The Linux Foundation
The Museum of Modern Art
The Pennsylvania State University
The State University of New York
The University of Chicago
The University of Edinburgh
The University of Hong Kong
The University of Melbourne
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The University of Sydney
The University of Tokyo
The World Bank Group
Tsinghua University
Unity
Universidad Austral
Universidad de Chile
Universidad de los Andes
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Universidade de São Paulo
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Università Bocconi
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Universitat de Barcelona
University of Alberta
University of Amsterdam
University of Arizona
University of California San Diego
University of California, Davis
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Cape Town
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Colorado System
University of Copenhagen
University of Florida
University of Geneva
University of Glasgow
University of Houston
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Lausanne
University of Leeds
University of London
University of Manchester
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of Nebraska
University of New Mexico
University of North Texas
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
University of Rochester
University of Science and Technology of China
University of Toronto
University of Washington
University of Western Australia
University of Zurich
University System of Georgia
UNSW Sydney (The University of New South Wales)
Utrecht University
VMware
Wesleyan University
West Virginia University
Xi’an Jiaotong University
Yad Vashem
Yale University
Yandex
Yeshiva University
Yonsei University