All time top 10 courses on Coursera — 2.45 million enrollments in top course Onlinecoursesgalore Follow Aug 8, 2019 · 4 min read

We all love Coursera for the kind of online learning material they provide, right? But, let me ask you all, how many of you really know what all are the all time top 10 courses on Coursera! Can anyone tell? No? Don’t worry, I have that covered for you in this article, make sure to read in full!

Don’t forget to click on “READ More” for the details of respective course!

Top Ten Coursera Courses

Following is the list of all time top ten courses on Coursera. The numbering is as per the enrollments for each course. These stats are pretty much up to date as I write this article. Over time these numbers will change, make sure to click on the respective links to see the real time stats:

Machine Learning: This is the number one course on Coursera. Not because it has the most enrollments but, in terms of ratings as well, the course is a blockbuster.

The course comes from Stanford University, the instructor of the course is Andrew NG, the co-founder of Coursera. This is the most enrolled online course on the internet as per my research.

There are whopping 2,454,599 enrollments in the course already. The rating of the course is 4.9/5 after 110,078 ratings.. READ More..

2. Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects: This course is offered jointly by McMaster University and University of California, San Diego. The instructors of this course are: Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski.

What makes the course the best are the following stats: 1.75+ million enrollments and a rating 4.8/5 after 45, 227 ratings!

Anyone looking for a personal and professional development courses should consider paying attention. READ More..

3. Programming for Everybody: This is my personal favorite course, I have learned a lot from it! Anyone who wants to get into serious programming, this is the course they should consider first.

This course comes from University of Michigan, the instructor of the course is, Charles Russell Severance. This should be a go to course for anyone who wants to get started with Python.

Numbers that make this course the best are, 860,554 enrollments, rating 4.8/5 after 63,251 ratings. READ More..

4. Successful Negotiation: Essential Strategies and Skills: Another great offering from University of Michigan! Anyone who wants to learn negotiation skills should consider looking at this world class course.

The instructor of this course is George Siedel. One of the very popular instructors in Business field. What makes the course number 4 on this list are these stats: 552,431students enrolled and 4.7/5 rating after 5,822 ratings. READ More..

5. Chinese for Beginners: This course is offered by Peking University, Beijing, China. Anyone who wants to learn Chinese, the language spoken by over 1.8 billion should take this course.

The instructor of the course is Xiaoyu Liu, one of the best instructors. 549,143 students have already enrolled, rating of the course is 4.7/5 after 4202 ratings. READ More..

Next 5 courses on the all time top 10 Coursera Courses

6. Neural Networks and Deep Learning: I see this course going straight to top 3 in coming years! As the creator of this gem Deeplearning.ai, Andrew NG’s company. You learn from these instructors: Andrew Ng and his assistants Kian Katanforoosh and Younes Bensouda Mourri.

Along with Machine Learning course, this is also the highest rated Coursera course with 4.9/5 rating. The course has been taken by 423,297 students already. .. READ More..

7. R Programming: This course comes from John Hopkins University and is the most enrolled R Programming course on the internet as per my own research.

Instructors of this top course are: Roger D. Peng, Jeff Leek and Brian Caffo.

Here are the stats that make the course number seven on our list: 414,599 enrollments, rating of 4.6/5 after 14,698 ratings. READ More..

8. The Science of Well-Being: A great offering on Coursera from Yale University. Currently along with few other courses, it enjoys the top rating of 4.9/5. Total of 384,340 students have enrolled in the course.

The instructor of the course is Laurie Santos, a Psychology Professor! READ More..

9. Grammar and Punctuation: This course comes from University of California, Irvine. One of the best courses in its category across the internet. The average rating of the course is 4.7/5 after 7543 ratings.

This top Grammar and Punctuation course has been enrolled by 357,984 students already. The instructors of the course are: Tamy Chapman, Helen Name, Brad Gilpin. READ More..

10. English for Career Development: Another course which has the potential to climb the ladder and get into top 5 all time courses on Coursera. Already this high quality course has been taken by 338,738 students. The overall rating of the course after 2459 ratings is 4.9/5.

The instructors of English for Career Development course are: Brian McManus and Robyn Turner. Both are English language specialists. .. READ More..

Conclusion

The above ten courses are the best and most enrolled on Coursera. Do look at them and see if you like to enroll. Each course comes with ta free trial, so you have enough time to audit before buying 🙂