What kind of courses are offered by Coursera for students?

Coursera started from Stanford University in 2012. Our co-founders were both Stanford University professors and we think about ourselves as a global learning e-course system. So there are learners on our platform, there are educators and today there are around 170 universities and 40 leading companies. Leading Universities like Yale University, Michigan, Integral College London and as of now, In India, IBS hyderabad and IIM Calcutta are the ones who create the content on Coursera platform.

From job steadiness point, the companies that create the content on Coursera will also be useful. Companies like Google, Amazon, IBM creates content on our platform. On our enterprise platform, Coursera works with about 2300 organisations and also with campuses. So these companies are many of those companies which students might aspire to work at, for example Infosys, Airtel, Axis Bank, etc.

These educators who are Coursera partners have created almost 4200 courses. These are called MOOCs (Massive open online courses) which usually are 12-15hours in duration. If one has to take a series of courses, it is called a specialisation. Today, we provide full online degrees as well.

There are many domains of content but the biggest usage is in the domains of business, technology and data science whether they are working professionals or students in colleges as well.

Raghav Gupta
Managing Director, India and APAC, Coursera