12 Best Materials Science Courses on Coursera
We compared 12 Materials Science courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $49.00. 6 come from a named university or institution, including Arizona State University, University of California, Irvine and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST). 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
- 12
- Price range
- $49.00 – $49.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 31 Aug 2026
How these 12 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "materials science" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
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 $49.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Materials Science for Technological Application
Offered by Arizona State University
This Specialization will provide you with an introductory knowledge and understanding of key concepts in Materials Science. Periods of our civilization have names associated with materials – stone age, bronze age, iron a...
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Materials Science for Advanced Technological Applications
Offered by Arizona State University
This specialization extends upon the initial introduction specialization, and like the other specialization, it introduces a limited number of new materials science and engineering concepts. Presentations are at the conc...
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Transmission electron microscopy for materials science
Offered by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Learn about the fundamentals of transmission electron microscopy in materials sciences: you will be able to understand papers where TEM has been used and have the necessary theoretical basis for taking a practical traini...
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Emergent Phenomena in Science and Everyday Life
Offered by University of California, Irvine
Before the advent of quantum mechanics in the early 20th century, most scientists believed that it should be possible to predict the behavior of any object in the universe simply by understanding the behavior of its cons...
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Electrodynamics: Electric and Magnetic Fields
Offered by Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST)
This course is a continuation of Electrodynamics: An Introduction and Electrodynamics: Analysis of Electric Fields. Here, we will introduce magnetostatics and relate it to the material we learned previously. In addition,...
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Mechanics of Materials I: Fundamentals of Stress & Strain and Axial Loading
Offered by Georgia Institute of Technology
This course explores the topic of solid objects subjected to stress and strain. The methods taught in the course are used to predict the response of engineering structures to various types of loading, and to analyze the...
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Material Processing
Offered by Georgia Institute of Technology
Have you ever wondered why ceramics are hard and brittle while metals tend to be ductile? Why some materials conduct heat or electricity while others are insulators? Why adding just a small amount of carbon to iron resul...
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Material Behavior
Offered by Georgia Institute of Technology
Have you ever wondered why ceramics are hard and brittle while metals tend to be ductile? Why some materials conduct heat or electricity while others are insulators? Why adding just a small amount of carbon to iron resul...
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Electrodynamics
Offered by Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST)
If you want to apply electrodynamics to your materials research project, this Specialization will help you do so. Electromagnetic force is one of the fundamental forces that hold atoms and molecules together, which are t...
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Additive Manufacturing
Offered by Arizona State University
This specialization is designed to be an introduction to additive manufacturing (AM) with exposure to six different AM processes. The field of AM can be broadly divided into three elements: process, materials and design....
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Ferrous Technology I
Offered by Pohang University of Science and Technology(POSTECH)
Steel, ever-evolving material, has been the most preeminent of all materials since it can provide wide range of properties that can meet ever-changing requirements. In this course, we explore both fundamental and technic...
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Additive Manufacturing Scientific Concepts and Applications
Offered by University of Miami
This specialization combines in-depth scientific concepts with the latest technological advancements in the field. Participants will not only gain a solid understanding of the fundamental science but also stay informed o...
$49.00listed price
Best Materials Science Courses on Coursera compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
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| 1 | Materials Science for Technological Application | Coursera | Arizona State University | $49.00 | View → |
| 2 | Materials Science for Advanced Technological Applications | Coursera | Arizona State University | $49.00 | View → |
| 3 | Transmission electron microscopy for materials science | Coursera | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | $49.00 | View → |
| 4 | Emergent Phenomena in Science and Everyday Life | Coursera | University of California, Irvine | $49.00 | View → |
| 5 | Electrodynamics: Electric and Magnetic Fields | Coursera | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST) | $49.00 | View → |
| 6 | Mechanics of Materials I: Fundamentals of Stress & Strain and Axial Lo... | Coursera | Georgia Institute of Technology | $49.00 | View → |
| 7 | Material Processing | Coursera | Georgia Institute of Technology | $49.00 | View → |
| 8 | Material Behavior | Coursera | Georgia Institute of Technology | $49.00 | View → |
| 9 | Electrodynamics | Coursera | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST) | $49.00 | View → |
| 10 | Additive Manufacturing | Coursera | Arizona State University | $49.00 | View → |
| 11 | Ferrous Technology I | Coursera | Pohang University of Science and Technology(POSTECH) | $49.00 | View → |
| 12 | Additive Manufacturing Scientific Concepts and Applications | Coursera | University of Miami | $49.00 | View → |
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 12 priced courses on this page run from $49.00 to $49.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $0.00. 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. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 6 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Arizona State University, University of California, Irvine and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST) — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
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