Degrees

Anisa Ray, MCIT ’22, studied rhetoric in college and then worked as a test prep teacher, getting students ready to ace their graduate school entrance exams. Today, she’s a newly minted graduate of the online Master of Computer and Information Technology (MCIT Online) from University of Pennsylvania and a software engineer at Palo Alto Networks,…

By Betty Vandenbosch, Chief Content Officer at Coursera Today, I am pleased to announce a Master’s in Management (MSM) in digital healthcare transformation from  D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, a top 50 U.S. university, and Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, ranked the best U.S. hospital. This is the first time a…

Karim Makisig “Maki” Villano studied electrical engineering as an undergraduate. He took on various IT roles over the last two decades and is currently a senior solutions architect at an IT services company. He soon became drawn to data science, recognizing that it was a growing field with high demand for skilled practitioners. Maki felt…

After graduating with her bachelor’s in psychology, Mattison Hineline moved to Málaga, Spain, to teach English. During the pandemic, she started taking programming classes online and became increasingly intrigued by the stats and graphs being used to track COVID-19’s impact. As her interest in data and programming grew, Mattison began to think about the possibilities…

Today, we’re excited to share more about the recently-announced Master of Engineering in Engineering Management (ME-EM) degree from The University of Colorado Boulder — a leading research university ranked in the top 1% of universities globally.The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) is recognized for the value and impact of its career-focused programs. This new…

Jaina Bellanca describes herself as a self-driven person. She likes to “set ambitious goals and achieve them,” and it’s this mindset that drives her to keep acquiring new skills and knowledge. She’s long been an active learner, earning an associate’s degree in 2014 and taking courses on Coursera in her free time in more recent…

Discover how photonics and semiconductors are impacting everything from transportation to healthcare and learn how you can start preparing for a career in electrical engineering. This is an exciting time to be pursuing an electrical engineering degree. Electrical engineers are shaping the future of transportation, pioneering new approaches to healthcare, and addressing the current chip…

By Betty Vandenbosch, Chief Content Officer, Coursera Today, I am proud to announce three new Spanish-language degrees from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC Chile) – the No. 1 university in Latin America. These are the first degree programs from a Chilean university on Coursera.  About 50% of Latin American firms cannot find candidates with…

Meet Ana Said. She’s an entrepreneur who built and operated her own business for almost a decade. She achieved her success through hard work and a willingness to learn on the job. This commitment to learning new skills was particularly important, given that she’d launched her business before earning a bachelor’s degree. Despite her achievements,…

An Interview with Dr. Jimeng Sun about the new Deep Learning for Healthcare Specialization on Coursera Artificial intelligence and deep learning are being used to solve important challenges in the field of healthcare, and these innovations are being made possible through the groundbreaking efforts of visionary practitioners who work at the intersection of health and…