25 Best Social Impact Courses Online
We compared 25 Social Impact courses currently listed on Coursera, edX and Udemy, priced from $49.00 to $199.00. 13 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
- 25
- Price range
- $49.00 – $199.00
- Providers
- Coursera, edX, Udemy
- Last updated
- 5 Sep 2026
How these 25 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, edX, Udemy, 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 $199.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
-
1
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...
$49.00listed price -
2
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'...
$49.00listed price -
3
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...
$49.00listed price -
4
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...
$49.00listed price -
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...
$49.00listed price -
6
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...
$49.00listed price -
7
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...
$49.00listed price -
8
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...
$49.00listed price -
9
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...
$49.00listed price -
10
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...
$49.00listed price -
11
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...
$79.00listed price -
12
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...
$49.00listed price -
13
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 -
14
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 -
15
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 -
16
CSR Strategy: Analyze, Implement & Create Value
Offered by EDUCBA
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a strategic business priority that creates long-term value for organizations and society. In this course, you will build a strong foundation in CSR by exploring its core d...
$49.00listed price -
17
Liderazgo con impacto
Offered by Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
En el mundo de los negocios se asume que el objetivo primario de la empresa privada es conseguir utilidades que puedan ser repartidas entre los accionistas y principales grupos de interés. Sin embargo, esta es una visión...
$49.00listed price -
18
Social Entrepreneurship
Offered by Copenhagen Business School
In this specialization you will learn how to create societal impact through Social Entrepreneurship. Social Entrepreneurship describes the discovery and sustainable exploitation of opportunities to create social change....
$49.00listed price -
19
Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change
Offered by Harvard University
What is the difference between an entrepreneur and a social entrepreneur? Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer Brian Trelstad gives learners insights into how social entrepreneurs design innovative solutions, build po...
$199.00listed price -
20
Value and Business Decision Making
Offered by Yunus Social Business Fund Bengaluru
This course is part of a Specialization titled “Strategy and Finance for a Lifecycle of a Social Business”. It is an introduction to time value of money and will help the learner understand the basics of finance with the...
$49.00listed price -
21
Why Move Towards Cleaner Power
Offered by Imperial College London
Learn why we need to clean up our power supply, and why is it urgent that we take action now. Gain the tools you need to present arguments in favour of a cleaner power sector in your part of the world
$59.00listed price -
22
Community Engagement: Collaborating for Change
Offered by The University of Michigan
Learn principles and strategies for engaging with U.S.-based and global communities through partnerships, research, service, and learning
$59.00listed price -
23
The Complete Ethical AI Use in Business
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in everyday business decisions, the ethical implications grow more urgent. This course offers a clear, theory-based expl...
$59.99listed price -
24
Environment, Social and Governance Framework
Organizations today are expected to do more than generate profit. They are increasingly held accountable for how they impact the environment, how they treat people, and how responsibly they are governed. This shift has m...
$49.99listed price -
25
Subsistence Marketplaces
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The foundation for this course lies with unique synergies between pioneering research, teaching, and social initiatives through the Subsistence Marketplaces Initiative. Unique to this approach is a bottom-up understandin...
$79.00listed price
Best Social Impact Courses Online 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 25 priced courses on this page run from $49.00 to $199.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $150.00. 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, edX and Udemy. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion. 13 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
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 5 September 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.