15 Best Big Data Courses on Coursera
We compared 15 Big Data courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $79.00. 5 come from a named university or institution, including University of Colorado Boulder, O.P. Jindal Global 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.
- Courses compared
- 15
- Price range
- $49.00 – $79.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "big data" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
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 $49.00 to $79.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Software Architecture for Big Data
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
This specialization is for software engineers interested in the principles of building and architecting large software systems that use big data. Through three courses you will learn about how to build and architect perf...
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Big Data Analytics
Offered by O.P. Jindal Global University
Ready to turn massive, complex datasets into actionable business insights? This advanced Big Data Analytics course is designed for learners with basic SQL, Python programming, and experience using predictive tools who wa...
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Big Data Processing Using Hadoop
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
The specialization "Big Data Processing Using Hadoop" is intended for post-graduate students seeking to develop advanced skills in big data processing and management using the Hadoop ecosystem. Through four detailed cour...
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Introduction to Big Data
Offered by University of California San Diego
Interested in increasing your knowledge of the Big Data landscape? This course is for those new to data science and interested in understanding why the Big Data Era has come to be. It is for those who want to become conv...
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Big Data
Offered by University of California San Diego
Drive better business decisions with an overview of how big data is organized, analyzed, and interpreted. Apply your insights to real-world problems and questions. ********* Do you need to understand big data and how it...
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Emerging Technologies: From Smartphones to IoT to Big Data
Offered by Yonsei University
This Specialization is intended for researchers and business experts seeking state-of-the-art knowledge in advanced science and technology. The 4 courses cover details on Big Data (Hadoop, Spark, Storm), Smartphones, Sma...
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Coursera CertificateBig Data Analysis Deep Dive
Offered by Alibaba Cloud Academy
The job market for architects, engineers, and analytics professionals with Big Data expertise continues to increase. The Academy’s Big Data Career path focuses on the fundamental tools and techniques needed to pursue a c...
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditApache Spark with Scala – Hands-On with Big Data!
Offered by Packt
Embark on a journey to master big data processing with Apache Spark and Scala. This course begins with setting up your development environment, ensuring you have a solid foundation in both Spark and Scala. You will dive...
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditData Visualization and Security in AWS Big Data
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...
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Coursera CertificateBig Data Foundations with Hadoop and Spark
Offered by Packt
This specialization 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 throug...
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Coursera CertificateHadoop Projects: Analyze & Optimize Big Data
Offered by EDUCBA
By the end of this course, learners will be able to analyze, transform, and optimize large-scale datasets using Hadoop’s distributed ecosystem. They will gain hands-on experience with MapReduce, Pig, and Hive across mult...
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditProcessing and Analyzing Big Data in AWS
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...
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditManaging Big Data in Clusters and Cloud Storage
Offered by Cloudera
In this course, you'll learn how to manage big datasets, how to load them into clusters and cloud storage, and how to apply structure to the data so that you can run queries on it using distributed SQL engines like Apach...
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditAWS Certified Big Data - Specialty
Offered by Packt
This specialization 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 throug...
$49.00listed price -
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Coursera CertificateModern Big Data Analysis with SQL
Offered by Cloudera
This Specialization teaches the essential skills for working with large-scale data using SQL. Maybe you are new to SQL and you want to learn the basics. Or maybe you already have some experience using SQL to query smalle...
$49.00listed price
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