12 Best Recommender Systems Courses on Coursera
We compared 12 Recommender Systems courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $9.99 to $79.00. 7 come from a named university or institution, including University of Minnesota, University of Colorado Boulder and University of Colorado System. 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
- $9.99 – $79.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 12 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "recommender systems" 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 $9.99 to $79.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Recommender Systems
Offered by University of Minnesota
A Recommender System is a process that seeks to predict user preferences. This Specialization covers all the fundamental techniques in recommender systems, from non-personalized and project-association recommenders throu...
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditAdvanced Recommender Systems
Offered by 28DIGITAL & Politecnico di Milano
In this course, you will see how to use advanced machine-learning techniques to build more sophisticated recommender systems. Machine Learning is able to provide recommendations and make better predictions, by taking adv...
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Introduction to Machine Learning: Unsupervised Learning
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
Introduction to Machine Learning: Unsupervised Learning explores how machines uncover structure, patterns, and relationships in data without labeled outcomes. In this course, you’ll learn how to analyze and visualize hig...
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Machine Learning for Marketers
Offered by University of Colorado System
"Machine Learning for Marketers" is an advanced course tailored for professionals looking to integrate machine learning into their marketing strategies. This course uniquely focuses on both predictive analytics and decis...
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Reinforcement Learning
Offered by Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute & University of Alberta
The Reinforcement Learning Specialization consists of 4 courses exploring the power of adaptive learning systems and artificial intelligence (AI). Harnessing the full potential of artificial intelligence requires adaptiv...
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Machine Learning Foundations: A Case Study Approach
Offered by University of Washington
Do you have data and wonder what it can tell you? Do you need a deeper understanding of the core ways in which machine learning can improve your business? Do you want to be able to converse with specialists about anythin...
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Machine Learning
Offered by Stanford University
The Machine Learning Specialization is a foundational online program created in collaboration between DeepLearning.AI and Stanford Online. This beginner-friendly program will teach you the fundamentals of machine learnin...
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Deploying Machine Learning Models
Offered by University of California San Diego
In this course we will learn about Recommender Systems (which we will study for the Capstone project), and also look at deployment issues for data products. By the end of this course, you should be able to implement a wo...
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Matrix Factorization and Advanced Techniques
Offered by University of Minnesota
In this course you will learn a variety of matrix factorization and hybrid machine learning techniques for recommender systems. Starting with basic matrix factorization, you will understand both the intuition and the pra...
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditBuild AI Apps with No-Code Tools
Offered by LearnQuest
This specialization teaches you how to design and deploy practical AI solutions without writing code. Across three beginner-friendly courses, you’ll build automated data workflows, create chatbots and recommender systems...
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditBuilding Multimodal Search and RAG
Offered by DeepLearning.AI
Learn how to build multimodal search and RAG systems. RAG systems enhance an LLM by incorporating proprietary data into the prompt context. Typically, RAG applications use text documents, but, what if the desired context...
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Vector Databases: from Embeddings to Applications
Offered by DeepLearning.AI
Vector databases play a pivotal role across various fields, such as natural language processing, image recognition, recommender systems and semantic search, and have gained more importance with the growing adoption of LL...
$9.99listed price
Best Recommender Systems Courses on Coursera compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
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| 1 | Recommender Systems | Coursera | University of Minnesota | $49.00 | View → |
| 2 | Advanced Recommender Systems | Coursera | 28DIGITAL & Politecnico di Milano | $49.00 | View → |
| 3 | Introduction to Machine Learning: Unsupervised Learning | Coursera | University of Colorado Boulder | $49.00 | View → |
| 4 | Machine Learning for Marketers | Coursera | University of Colorado System | $49.00 | View → |
| 5 | Reinforcement Learning | Coursera | Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute & University of Alberta | $79.00 | View → |
| 6 | Machine Learning Foundations: A Case Study Approach | Coursera | University of Washington | $79.00 | View → |
| 7 | Machine Learning | Coursera | Stanford University | $49.00 | View → |
| 8 | Deploying Machine Learning Models | Coursera | University of California San Diego | $49.00 | View → |
| 9 | Matrix Factorization and Advanced Techniques | Coursera | University of Minnesota | $79.00 | View → |
| 10 | Build AI Apps with No-Code Tools | Coursera | LearnQuest | $49.00 | View → |
| 11 | Building Multimodal Search and RAG | Coursera | DeepLearning.AI | $49.00 | View → |
| 12 | Vector Databases: from Embeddings to Applications | Coursera | DeepLearning.AI | $9.99 | View → |
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