Data Science courses
Want the shortlist rather than the catalogue? Read Best Data Science Courses Online in 2026, which compares a handful of these courses and says who each one is for.
The data science courses listed here cover Python and R, SQL, statistics, data cleaning, visualisation and the machine learning that sits on top. The providers include IBM, Google, the University of Michigan, Harvard University and DataCamp.
The dividing line is whether a course makes you write code against real data or only watch someone else do it. Filter by level and format, and favour the courses whose skills list names the tools in the job you are targeting.
A Data Science course is worth paying for when it closes a gap someone is hiring for. Read your CV against the job you are targeting in CV and Job Match, check what the role pays and who is advertising for it in Job Scout and on the salary pages, and let Course Path put the remaining gaps in order, cheapest and shortest first where that makes no difference to the outcome.
Data Science courses worth starting with
The catalogue holds 360 Data Science courses. These 18 are the ones we point people at first, chosen for a provider name a recruiter recognises, a credential worth writing on a CV and a description that says more than the course title. Each page carries the provider, the level, the length and the certificate. The rest of the subject is on the same page, and the filters search all of it.
- Introduction to Transforming with Data Analytics and the Digital Organization
- Md Anderson Cancer Center in Houston Certain Observational Studies and Registries
- Data for Better Lives a New Social Contract Self Paced
- Data Creation and Collection for Artificial Intelligence Via Crowdsourcing
- Foundations of Data Analysis Part 1 Statistics Using R
- Principles Statistical and Computational Tools for Reproducible Data Science
- GCP Data Pipeline Automation Optimization Using Google Cloud Platform
- A Fast Track Guide to Becoming Data Led
- Causal Diagrams Draw Your Assumptions Before Your Conclusions
- Analytics for Business Planning Time Series Forecasting 2
- Data for Better Lives a New Social Contract
- Of Economics and Political Science Statistics 1 Part 1 Introductory Statistics Probability and Estimation
- Of Economics and Political Science Statistics 1 Part 2 Statistical Methods
- Of Economics and Political Science Statistics 2 Part 1 Probability and Distribution Theory
- Of Economics and Political Science Statistics 2 Part 2 Statistical Inference
- Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate
- IBM Data Analyst Professional Certificate
- Databases and SQL for Data Science with Python
What this page lists for Data Science
360 Data Science courses have a page on this site. By platform that is edX 135, Udemy 75, Coursera 72, DataCamp 56, 365 Data Science 20, Scrimba 2. By the level the provider states, 138 beginner, 194 intermediate, 28 advanced. On credentials, 17 are a Professional Certificate and 343 a plain certificate of completion. Every one of those counts is a count of rows in the catalogue on this page, and every one of them can be checked against the filters on this page: set the platform or the level and compare the number of results.
What this page does not cover
- We have not taken these courses. The level, the length and the certificate line come from the provider's own listing, and nothing on this page is a review of the teaching.
- A certificate is usually a paid extra rather than part of a free course. edX states of its own audit track that "Auditors have temporary access to edX course materials at no cost", and the certificate sits on the paid track instead. Read the price line on the course page before you assume a free course ends in a credential.
- Careery earns affiliate commission on some course links. It does not change the order of this list, which is set by the filters you choose, and it is the reason to say so here.
- This is what we list, not what exists. A subject missing from the counts above is missing from our catalogue, which is not evidence that nobody teaches it.
Catalogue last updated 2026-09-13. Counts on this page are generated from that catalogue when the page is built, so they change when it does. The edX wording above was read on 2026-09-28. For what a certificate is and is not worth on a CV, read are online certificates worth it.