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Prompt engineering courses, from chat prompts to API work

A prompt engineering course teaches you to write instructions that get reliable results from AI tools.

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32 courses
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13 courses
Curated by Jake BolandChecked against the issuers' and providers' pages, Oct 3, 2026 to Oct 26, 2026How I verify

For everyday work, OpenAI Academy's free AI Foundations takes 1 hour 10 minutes, with a badge for scoring 80% or more.

Which prompt engineering course is right for you?

Start with where your prompts will run. If you type into a chat tool at work, you need a course on briefing it well. If your prompts sit inside code, you need one that treats them as API calls you test.

Can you learn prompt engineering for free?

Yes. The free options run from a 1-hour PMI course to notebook tutorials. PMI's Talking to AI: Prompt Engineering for Project Managers takes 1 hour, covers prompt design, refinement and chaining, and adds 14 use-case videos and an 85-page workbook. It earns 3 PDUs and needs a free PMI account.

Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial walks through prompting techniques step by step in Jupyter notebooks. The material is free, but the catch is cost: you need an Anthropic API key and pay small API usage charges as you go. There is no certificate, and Anthropic doesn't say how long it takes.

Andrew Ng's AI Prompting for Everyone is for people who use ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, and covers deep research modes and handling sycophancy. You can audit it free; graded work and the certificate need Pro, at USD 25 a month billed yearly or USD 30 month to month.

What comes after a beginner prompting course?

Two directions. For repeat work, OpenAI Academy's Applied AI Foundations is intermediate level and takes 1 hour 20 minutes. It turns good prompts into workflows with checkpoints and human review, and weighs quality against speed and cost. Its badge, like the beginner course's, needs 80% on the assessment.

For builders, Anthropic's Building with the Claude API takes 10 hours over seven modules, including prompt evaluation, tool use and retrieval. Every feature is free, though it gives no certificate, and it expects basic Python and a notebook you can run on your own machine.

Is there a prompt engineering certification?

The Cisco AI Business Practitioner is offered as a free learning path with a digital badge. The GitHub Copilot certification costs $99 USD. A course can also leave you with a record to show: PMI's Talking to AI earns 3 PDUs, and both OpenAI Academy courses give a badge for 80% or more on the assessment.

More prompt engineering courses

Recommended order: courses mainly about Prompt engineering first, then open now, wide audience, beginner level and lower cost. The 8 courses shown above are not repeated here unless you filter or search. How we order courses.

24 courses

  • Work smarter with Copilot prompts for finance professionals

    Microsoft Learn

    Delivery
    Online, self-paced
    Cost
    Free
    Level
    Beginner
    For
    Finance and accounting, Business professionals
    Duration
    Not stated
    Certificate
    Yes

    Start any time

    Free certificateLicense needed
    Checked against Microsoft Learn on Oct 26, 2026

  • AI Foundations

    OpenAI Academy

    Delivery
    Online, self-paced
    Cost
    Free
    Level
    Beginner
    For
    Everyone, Business professionals
    Duration
    About 1 hour
    Certificate
    Yes

    Start any time

    Free certificate
    Checked against OpenAI Academy on Oct 5, 2026

  • AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations

    Anthropic

    Delivery
    Online, self-paced
    Cost
    Free
    Level
    Beginner
    For
    Everyone
    Duration
    About 4 hours
    Certificate
    Yes

    Start any time

    Free certificate
    Checked against Anthropic on Oct 22, 2026

  • Transform business workflows with generative AI

    Microsoft Learn

    Delivery
    Online
    Cost
    Free
    Level
    Beginner
    For
    Business professionals, Marketers
    Duration (as stated by provider)
    1 day
    Certificate
    Not stated

    Start any time

    Checked against Microsoft Learn on Oct 26, 2026

  • Building with Llama 4

    DeepLearning.AI

    Delivery
    Online, self-paced
    Cost
    Free for now
    Level
    Beginner
    For
    Developers and engineers
    Duration
    About 1.5 hours
    Certificate
    Yes

    Start any time

    Checked against DeepLearning.AI on Oct 4, 2026

  • Generative AI for Everyone

    DeepLearning.AI · Coursera

    Delivery
    Online, self-paced
    Cost
    Free to learn
    Level
    Beginner
    For
    Everyone, Business professionals
    Duration
    About 6 hours
    Certificate
    Yes

    Start any time

    Checked against Coursera on Oct 20, 2026

  • AI Fundamentals (skill track)

    DataCamp

    Delivery
    Online, self-paced
    Cost
    Free to learn
    Level
    Beginner
    For
    Everyone, Business professionals
    Duration
    About 9 hours
    Certificate
    Yes

    Start any time

    Checked against DataCamp on Oct 3, 2026

  • Microsoft 365 with Generative AI Professional Certificate

    Microsoft · Coursera

    Delivery
    Online, self-paced
    Cost
    Free to learn
    Level
    Beginner
    For
    Business professionals
    Duration (as stated by provider)
    2 months to complete at 10 hours a week
    Certificate
    Yes

    Start any time

    License needed
    Checked against Microsoft on Oct 12, 2026

  • Google AI Professional Certificate

    Google · Coursera

    Delivery
    Online, self-paced
    Cost
    $49 per month
    Level
    Beginner
    For
    Everyone, Business professionals
    Duration
    About 8 hours
    Certificate
    Yes

    Start any time

    Checked against Google on Oct 26, 2026

  • IBM AI Developer Professional Certificate

    IBM · Coursera

    Delivery
    Online, self-paced
    Cost
    Paid, price not recorded yet
    Level
    Beginner
    For
    Developers and engineers, Students and career changers
    Duration (as stated by provider)
    6 months at 4 hours a week
    Certificate
    Yes

    Start any time

    Checked against IBM on Oct 26, 2026

  • IBM Generative AI Engineering Professional Certificate

    IBM

    Delivery
    Online, self-paced
    Cost
    Paid, price not recorded yet
    Level
    Beginner
    For
    Developers and engineers, Data scientists and analysts
    Duration (as stated by provider)
    6 months at 6 hours a week
    Certificate
    Yes

    Start any time

    Checked against IBM on Oct 26, 2026

  • Real-World AI with Claude Specialization

    Anthropic · Coursera

    Delivery
    Online, self-paced
    Cost
    Paid, price not recorded yet
    Level
    Beginner
    For
    Everyone, Business professionals
    Duration (as stated by provider)
    4 weeks to complete at 10 hours a week
    Certificate
    Yes

    Start any time

    Checked against Anthropic on Oct 22, 2026

  • IBM RAG and Agentic AI Professional Certificate

    IBM

    Delivery
    Online, self-paced
    Cost
    Free to learn
    Level
    Advanced
    For
    Developers and engineers
    Duration (as stated by provider)
    8 weeks at 3 hours a week
    Certificate
    Yes

    Start any time

    Checked against IBM on Oct 26, 2026

  • ChatGPT Foundations for Teachers

    OpenAI · Coursera

    Delivery
    Online, self-paced
    Cost
    Free
    Level
    Beginner
    For
    Teachers and educators
    Duration
    About 5 hours
    Certificate
    No

    Start any time

    Checked against OpenAI Academy on Oct 26, 2026

  • Generative AI for Recruiters and HR Professionals

    LearnKartS · Coursera

    Delivery
    Online, self-paced
    Cost
    Free to learn
    Level
    Beginner
    For
    HR professionals
    Duration (as stated by provider)
    1 week to complete at 10 hours a week
    Certificate
    Yes

    Start any time

    Checked against LearnKartS on Oct 12, 2026

  • Generative AI for Project Management Specialization

    SkillsBooster Academy · Coursera

    Delivery
    Online, self-paced
    Cost
    Paid, price not recorded yet
    Level
    Beginner
    For
    Project managers
    Duration
    About 23 hours
    Certificate
    Yes

    Start any time

    Checked against SkillsBooster Academy on Oct 26, 2026

  • Artificial Intelligence for HR Certificate Program

    AIHR (Academy to Innovate HR)

    Delivery
    Online, self-paced
    Cost
    $1,125
    Level
    Beginner
    For
    HR professionals
    Duration
    About 33 hours
    Certificate
    Yes

    Soon Starts in 1 day (Oct 27, 2026)

    Checked against AIHR (Academy to Innovate HR) on Oct 26, 2026

  • IBM AI Product Manager Professional Certificate

    IBM

    Delivery
    Online, self-paced
    Cost
    Paid, price not recorded yet
    Level
    Beginner
    For
    Product managers
    Duration (as stated by provider)
    3 months to complete at 10 hours a week
    Certificate
    Yes

    Start any time

    Checked against IBM on Oct 20, 2026

  • Practical Application of Generative AI for Project Managers

    Project Management Institute (PMI)

    Delivery
    Online, self-paced
    Cost
    Free
    Level
    Intermediate (our rating)
    For
    Project managers
    Duration
    About 5 hours
    Certificate
    Yes

    Start any time

    Free certificate
    Checked against Project Management Institute (PMI) on Oct 4, 2026

  • Generative AI for Finance and Accounting Specialization

    Edureka · Coursera

    Delivery
    Online, self-paced
    Cost
    Paid, price not recorded yet
    Level
    Intermediate
    For
    Finance and accounting
    Duration (as stated by provider)
    8 weeks to complete at 5 hours a week
    Certificate
    Yes

    Start any time

    Checked against Edureka on Oct 12, 2026

  • Generative AI for Project Managers Specialization

    IBM · Coursera

    Delivery
    Online, self-paced
    Cost
    Paid, price not recorded yet
    Level
    Intermediate
    For
    Project managers
    Duration (as stated by provider)
    4 weeks to complete at 10 hours a week
    Certificate
    Yes

    Start any time

    Checked against IBM on Oct 12, 2026

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