Coursera
Coursera is a global platform for online learning and career development offering learners access to courses, professional certificates, specializations, and fully online bachelor's and master's degrees from leading universities and companies.
It partners with over 300 institutions, offers more than 10,000 courses including 50+ degree programs, and lets users audit many courses for free.
According to our data, Coursera ranks 11th among the online course platforms we track.
It has 1.7% of the online course market share and is detected on 0.003% of all websites.
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Coursera is available in both free and paid versions.
📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Online Courses
- Rank: 11
- Market share: 1.7%
🏆 Coursera Awards
- ⭐ 9th most popular in the United States in the Online Courses category.
⚡ Sites Using Coursera
We have data on 96 websites that use the Coursera platform. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using Coursera is coursera.org.
| # | Website | 🔗 | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | coursera.org |
#189 | English | ||
| 2 | learn/how-to-conduct-a-social-impact-assessment-with-sroi | #18,920 | United States | English | |
| 3 | learn/holocaust-primary-sources | #105,779 | Netherlands | English | |
| 4 | learn/mrnas-as-medicines | #117,807 | United States | American English | |
| 5 | #121,873 | India | American English | ||
| 6 | #135,638 | United States | English | ||
| 7 | specializations/python | #146,834 | English | ||
| 8 | specializations/app-development | #366,302 | Russia | Russian | |
| 9 | specializations/google-golang | #414,120 | Brazil | English | |
| 10 | #432,686 | English | |||
| 11 | #450,870 | Japan | Japanese | ||
| 12 | #458,779 | English | |||
| 13 | learn/study-in-usa | #527,765 | Hungary | American English | |
| 14 | #604,210 | English | |||
| 15 |  codesachin.wordpress.com |
United States | English | ||
| 16 | learn/machine-learning | #626,281 | Vietnamese | ||
| 17 | learn/social-psychology | #642,603 | United States | American English | |
| 18 | #682,534 | United States | English | ||
| 19 | learn/reign-of-pain | #832,858 | United States | American English | |
| 20 | learn/health-for-all | #889,522 | United States | American English |
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use Coursera:
- are located in the United States
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Education/Reference category.
Most of the sites using Coursera are from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia.
- United States 56.3%
- United Kingdom 7%
- Russia 5.6%
- India 4.2%
- Brazil 2.8%
- Canada 2.8%
- Japan 2.8%
- Poland 2.8%
- Chile 1.4%
- Other 14.3%
Most Coursera users speak English or Russian.
- English 82.3%
- Russian 4.2%
- Spanish 2.1%
- Japanese 2.1%
- Vietnamese 2.1%
- Italian 1%
- French 1%
- Chinese 1%
- Persian 1%
- Other 3.2%
The Coursera platform is especially popular on .com, .org, and .net top-level domains.
- .com 46.9%
- .org 16.7%
- .net 5.2%
- .info 2.1%
- .ca 2.1%
- .io 2.1%
- .co.in 2.1%
- .uk 1%
- .pl 1%
- Other 20.8%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing Coursera include education and reference, business, and marketing and merchandising.
- Education/Reference 32.1%
- Business 14.3%
- Marketing/Merchandising 14.3%
- Blogs/Wiki 10.7%
- Internet Services 3.6%
- Health 3.6%
- Government/Military 3.6%
- Software/Hardware 3.6%
- Search Engines 3.6%
- Other 10.6%
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Where is Coursera's headquarters?
Coursera is located in Mountain View, California, United States.
Can I use Coursera for free?
Yes, there is a free version with limited functionality.
How much does Coursera cost?
Coursera is priced from $239 per year for the Coursera Plus plan.
Does Coursera offer a free trial?
No, you cannot try Coursera for free, as access is only available after purchase.
Which country uses Coursera the most?
The majority of Coursera users are from the United States.
Who uses Coursera?
According to our data, Coursera is used on at least 96 sites, including such established ones as fastercapital.com,
ehri-project.eu, and
modernatx.com.
How does Coursera compare to its competitors?
Coursera is a moderately popular online course platform, ranking ahead of 5 other online course platforms we track.
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,512,920 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.