15 Best SQL Courses on Coursera
We compared 15 SQL courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $158.00. 10 come from a named university or institution, including Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, University of Colorado System and O.P. Jindal Global 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 – $158.00
- 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 this topic 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 $158.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Java Database Engineering: Spring Boot MVC & SQL Mastery
Offered by Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Master the full stack of database engineering with this comprehensive course that bridges theoretical SQL knowledge with practical Spring Boot MVC application development. Through hands-on projects building a library man...
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Design and Build a Data Warehouse for Business Intelligence Implementation
Offered by University of Colorado System
The capstone course, Design and Build a Data Warehouse for Business Intelligence Implementation, features a real-world case study that integrates your learning across all courses in the specialization. In response to bus...
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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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Introduction to Data Science
Offered by IBM
Interested in learning more about data science, but don’t know where to start? This 4-course Specialization from IBM will provide you with the key foundational skills any data scientist needs to prepare you for a career...
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Django for Everybody
Offered by University of Michigan
This specialization introduces Python programmers to building websites using the Django library. Across the four courses, you will learn HTML, CSS, SQL, Django, JavaScript, jQuery, and JSON Web Services. During the cours...
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Web Applications for Everybody
Offered by University of Michigan
This Specialization is an introduction to building web applications for anybody who already has a basic understanding of responsive web design with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Web Applications for Everybody is your introd...
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How to Use Data
Offered by University of Pennsylvania
“How to Use Data” is designed to equip learners with the essential skills needed for a career in data analytics. This specialization emphasizes the ability to scope and answer critical business questions using data while...
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Databases for Data Scientists
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
Whether you are a beginning programmer with an interest in Data Science, a data scientist working closely with content experts, or a software developer seeking to learn about the database layer of the stack this speciali...
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Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence
Offered by University of Colorado System
Evaluate business needs, design a data warehouse, and integrate and visualize data using dashboards and visual analytics. This Specialization covers data architecture skills that are increasingly critical across a broad...
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Data Science Fundamentals with Python and SQL
Offered by IBM
Data Science is one of the hottest professions of the decade, and the demand for data scientists who can analyze data and communicate results to inform data driven decisions has never been greater. This Specialization fr...
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Advanced Business Analytics
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
The Advanced Business Analytics Specialization brings together academic professionals and experienced practitioners to share real world data analytics skills you can use to grow your business, increase profits, and creat...
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Data Manipulation at Scale: Systems and Algorithms
Offered by University of Washington
Data analysis has replaced data acquisition as the bottleneck to evidence-based decision making --- we are drowning in it. Extracting knowledge from large, heterogeneous, and noisy datasets requires not only powerful com...
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Advanced Tableau - LOD Calculations
Offered by Corporate Finance Institute
This Advanced Tableau course provides next-level training to be able to prep and display data in an efficient way. In this course, you’ll utilize Tableau to break down and solve the types of business problems that BI ana...
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Accounting Data Analytics with Python
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
This course focuses on developing Python skills for assembling business data. It will cover some of the same material from Introduction to Accounting Data Analytics and Visualization, but in a more general purpose progra...
$158.00listed price -
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Data Engineering Foundations
Offered by IBM
Data engineering is one of the fastest-growing tech occupations, where the demand for skilled data engineers far outweighs the supply. The goal of data engineering is to make quality data available for fact-finding and d...
$49.00listed price
Best SQL Courses on Coursera compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Java Database Engineering: Spring Boot MVC & SQL Mastery | Coursera | Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani | $49.00 | View → |
| 2 | Design and Build a Data Warehouse for Business Intelligence Implementa... | Coursera | University of Colorado System | $79.00 | View → |
| 3 | Big Data Analytics | Coursera | O.P. Jindal Global University | $49.00 | View → |
| 4 | Introduction to Data Science | Coursera | IBM | $49.00 | View → |
| 5 | Django for Everybody | Coursera | University of Michigan | $49.00 | View → |
| 6 | Web Applications for Everybody | Coursera | University of Michigan | $49.00 | View → |
| 7 | How to Use Data | Coursera | University of Pennsylvania | $49.00 | View → |
| 8 | Databases for Data Scientists | Coursera | University of Colorado Boulder | $79.00 | View → |
| 9 | Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence | Coursera | University of Colorado System | $49.00 | View → |
| 10 | Data Science Fundamentals with Python and SQL | Coursera | IBM | $49.00 | View → |
| 11 | Advanced Business Analytics | Coursera | University of Colorado Boulder | $49.00 | View → |
| 12 | Data Manipulation at Scale: Systems and Algorithms | Coursera | University of Washington | $79.00 | View → |
| 13 | Advanced Tableau - LOD Calculations | Coursera | Corporate Finance Institute | $49.00 | View → |
| 14 | Accounting Data Analytics with Python | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $158.00 | View → |
| 15 | Data Engineering Foundations | Coursera | IBM | $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 15 priced courses on this page run from $49.00 to $158.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $109.00. That is a wide gap for one subject. 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 Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, University of Colorado System and O.P. Jindal Global University — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
Open the provider’s own page and check three things this comparison cannot tell you: when the course was last updated, what the syllabus actually covers in its later sections, and what recent learners say. Prices shown here are the provider’s listed price when we last rebuilt this page on 30 August 2026 — they change often, and a promotion can move them substantially. We earn a commission if you enrol through our links, which costs you nothing and never affects the order courses appear in.