Coursera Now Offering Complete Bachelor’s and Master’s Programs–With Tuition Reduced by 70%

As we observed last Octo­ber, Cours­era has been under­go­ing an evo­lu­tion of sorts. When the ed tech com­pa­ny start­ed out, it offered an array of indi­vid­ual cours­es to stu­dents world­wide. A lit­tle of this. And a lit­tle of that. Now, they’re increas­ing­ly mov­ing towards cours­es that work togeth­er in sequences. First came “course spe­cial­iza­tions”–col­lec­tions of cours­es that allow stu­dents to gain a mas­tery of spe­cial­ized top­ics like Deep Learn­ing, Data Sci­ence (Johns Hop­kins), Busi­ness Fun­da­men­tals (Whar­ton), Dig­i­tal Mar­ket­ing (Uni­ver­si­ty of Illi­nois), and Big Data (UC San Diego). Next it was just a log­i­cal jump to offer­ing full-blown Bach­e­lor’s and Mas­ter’s pro­grams at a dis­count­ed price (rough­ly 1/3 the usu­al cost.) As of this month, Cours­era offers one Bach­e­lor’s pro­gram (Com­put­er Sci­ence from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Lon­don), one MBA, and eight Mas­ter’s pro­grams. The full list of degree pro­grams appears below:

• Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence in Com­put­er Sci­ence from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Lon­don (New)
• Mas­ter of Com­put­er Sci­ence from Ari­zona State Uni­ver­si­ty (New)
• Glob­al Mas­ter of Pub­lic Health from Impe­r­i­al Col­lege Lon­don (New)
• Mas­ter of Com­put­er Sci­ence from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Illi­nois (New)
• Mas­ter of Applied Data Sci­ence from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan (New)
• Mas­ter of Pub­lic Health from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan (New)
• Mas­ter of Com­put­er Sci­ence in Data Sci­ence from Uni­ver­si­ty of Illi­nois
• Online Mas­ter’s in Inno­va­tion and Entre­pre­neur­ship from HEC Paris
• Mas­ter of Busi­ness Admin­is­tra­tion from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Illi­nois
• Mas­ter of Sci­ence in Accoun­tan­cy from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Illi­nois

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Relat­ed Con­tent:

Cours­era Part­ners with Lead­ing Uni­ver­si­ties to Offer Master’s Degrees at a More Afford­able Price

New Deep Learn­ing Cours­es Released on Cours­era, with Hope of Teach­ing Mil­lions the Basics of Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence

MOOCs from Great Uni­ver­si­ties (Many With Cer­tifi­cates)