15 Best Social Impact Courses on Coursera
We compared 15 Social Impact courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $79.00. 10 come from a named university or institution, including Goldman Sachs, University of Michigan and Duke 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
- 5 Sep 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "social impact" 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 $79.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Social Impact Strategy with Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women
Offered by Goldman Sachs
This elective course will help you to make sure your business has the influence you want it to have in the world, by developing a social impact that is meaningful to you and your stakeholders. This course supplements the...
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Participatory AI for Social Impact
Offered by University of Michigan
AI is rapidly proliferating across society, but negative impacts can arise when communities and stakeholders are not equally involved in the AI development process. In this course, you’ll learn to critically evaluate AI'...
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Realizing AI for Social Impact
Offered by University of Michigan
Realizing AI for Social Impact explores how AI can contribute to social impact, examining applications across various fields like public health and conservation. Learners will explore multiple AI techniques, from machine...
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Impact Measurement & Management for the SDGs
Offered by Duke University
How can businesses and investors help fill the multi-trillion-dollar gap needed for sustainable development? Simply put: by incorporating sustainability and social impact factors on people and planet into management deci...
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5
Become a changemaker, build a career with purpose and impact
Offered by HEC Paris
This course is designed to help anyone who wants to make a positive impact on society, but doesn't know how. Whatever your age, academic background or professional context, it will help you find the path that is right fo...
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Computational Thinking for Problem Solving
Offered by University of Pennsylvania
Computational thinking is the process of approaching a problem in a systematic manner and creating and expressing a solution such that it can be carried out by a computer. But you don't need to be a computer scientist to...
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Principles of Sustainable Finance
Offered by Erasmus University Rotterdam
Finance is widely seen as an obstacle to a better world. Principles of Sustainable Finance explains how the financial sector can be mobilized to counter this. Using finance as a means to achieve social goals we can diver...
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Negotiating with Impact Investors
Offered by Duke University
How do you close a successful financing deal with impact investors? This course guides you through a step-by-step approach to effectively engage, pitch, and negotiate with impact investors. You’ll learn how to craft a co...
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Raising Impact Investment Capital
Offered by Duke University
Every year, global investors channel over $1 trillion into enterprises tackling urgent challenges in health, education, poverty, climate, and more. These organizations—impact enterprises—often seek capital from investors...
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Becoming a Social Entrepreneur: Getting Started
Offered by University of Michigan
Do you have an idea that could help solve a societal problem? Are you wondering if starting a social enterprise is the best way to go forward? You are thinking about becoming a social entrepreneur! In this course, you’ll...
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Sustainable Innovation for Subsistence Marketplaces
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
This course focuses on understanding subsistence marketplaces and designing business solutions for the billions of people living in poverty in the global marketplace. To develop understanding of these markets, we use exe...
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Ethics and Responsible Practices in GenAI
Offered by Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute
Ethics and Responsible Practices in Generative AI is a self-paced course that helps you build a clear understanding of how to use generative AI in a thoughtful and responsible way. You do not need any technical backgroun...
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New Models of Business in Society
Offered by University of Virginia
In this course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and taught by top-ranked faculty, we will be discussing the emergence of a new story about business. This new story locates busines...
$49.00listed price -
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Business Strategies for A Better World
Offered by University of Pennsylvania
You’re not just interested in making money. You’re interested in making a difference in the world too. Set your career and your business on the road to success by learning evidence-based strategies to achieve sustainable...
$79.00listed price -
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From prototyping to validating business models
Offered by The Open University
On this course, you’ll discover what sustainable business value means in the context of prototyping and validating business models. You will appraise your value proposition to stakeholders and its likely impact across pe...
$49.00listed price
Best Social Impact Courses on Coursera compared
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 15 priced courses on this page run from $49.00 to $79.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $30.00. 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. 10 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Goldman Sachs, University of Michigan and Duke University — 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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