51+ Coursera Statistics 2024 - Number of Users and Revenue

Report Highlights

Coursera reached 82 million registered users in Q1 2021, representing a 5% rise over the previous quarter.
Coursera has over 3,000 courses available to its learners and more than 2,800 employees.
Coursera provides its learning service to learners across more than 200 universities, non-profit organizations, and businesses.
40% of students study the courses they enroll in till completion.
Coursera-gained skills are acknowledged by over 25% of the Fortune 500 companies.
The online learning company also had 479 enterprise customers through that period.
By the end of 2020, Coursera had awarded over 12,00o degrees to learners.
The average cost incurred in acquiring the degrees was $2,000.
In 2020, Coursera partnered with more than 150 universities to offer learning services.

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Revenue and Financial Statistics

By 2020, Coursera had raised a total of $464 million from a series of funding rounds.
Coursera offered its IPO on March 31, 2021, with the shares selling at $33 per unit at the time.
Coursera’s latest funding round – series F raised $130 million to reach a valuation of $2.5 billion.
The Coursera Plus subscription service costs $59 a month and has over 3,000 courses. The plan comes with a 7-day free trial period.
The subscription service also has the option of $399 a year.
Coursera’s annual revenue was $95.6 million in 2017. The figure rose to $141.8 million in 2018 and $184.4 million in 2019.
Overall, in 2020, Coursera netted $293.5 million, which represented a 59% year-over-year increase in revenue.
This amount of revenue was obtained from 77 million registered users from more than 200 major universities.
51% of Coursera’s revenue was obtained from countries outside of the US.
Coursera reported a loss of $66.8 million in 2020.
The platform recorded $12 million in revenue in Q1 2021 from 13,493 enrolments into degree programs.

Coursera for Campus was introduced in October 2019 and now offers more than 4,000 courses to learners.
As of March 2021, the Coursera offering had seen more than 10,000 institutional clients sign up.
By the end of 2020, Coursera for Campus had served 2.4 million learners across 3,700 campuses.
In 2020, Coursera for Campus saw 530,000 campus students grow their skills to an advanced or intermediary level.

Coursera for Government partnered with 325 government agencies last year.
The partnership led to 725,000 government learners receiving training.
78,000 government learners gained growth in skills to reach an intermediary of advanced level.
91% of the learners involved reported a positive impact in outcomes after the completion of their training.

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In 2020, Coursera worked with 2,300 enterprise institutions to serve 550,000 learners.
Just over 90% of the enterprise learners reported positive outcomes in their careers.
110,000 enterprise learners raised their skill levels to either advanced or intermediate levels.
Companies that collaborate with Coursera report saving $1.12 million in recruitment costs every year.
83% of all the learners who completed enterprise coursework described an improvement in their productivity at work.
The companies also report that as a consequence, they use 40% fewer resources to train 94% more employees.
The firms also save on time used in training by 46%.
The companies training their employees via Coursera reported a 748% return on investment (ROI) within three years.

Coursera offers over 1000 guided projects that last less than two hours at an average cost of $9.99.
By the close of the year 2020, Coursera offered over 5,500 university courses.
There are more than 4,600 Courses available where learners gain knowledge in 4 and 6 weeks at prices not exceeding $99.
For $39 – $99 per month, learners can partake in over 500 specializations to gain job-relevant skills in 3 to 6 months.
Coursera offers 25+ professional certificates that cost between $39 and $99 per month for a period lasting 3 to 6 months.
Learners can gain 15 or more MasterTrack certificates at Coursera for a sum of $2,000 to $6,000. The certificate duration is between 3 months and 12 months.
There are 25+ fully online bachelor’s or master’s degrees that can be obtained at the cost of $9,000 to $45,000.

93% of Coursera learners say they would recommend the platform to their friends.
The average rating of courses on Coursera is 4.7 out of 5.
99% of enrollments on Coursera rate the online course provider higher than 4.0 out of 5.
79% of Coursera learners have rated it 5-star.
Three out of four learners who enroll on Coursera go on to sign up for another course.
87% of the learners on Coursera report benefits when they seek to pursue new career paths.
78% of learners become more confident after going through Coursera courses.
92% of learners intending to boost their education report benefits such as increased readiness for an exam.

Coursera’s partners recorded a 40 to 50 % rise in revenue over the first two financial quarters in 2020.
Coursera saw a 450% increase in the number of enrollments in 2020.
Coursera launched its campus response initiative in March 2020, impacting 10,000 departments, universities, and schools.
7 million learners benefitted from the program clocking up to 32 million learning hours.
80,000 Coursera employees received free training via the Employee Resilience Initiative throughout the pandemic in 2020.
Over 2020, Coursera added 1,500 new courses and 900 new guided projects across several relevant skills.
Coursera also launched a Covid-19 Contact Tracing training course in collaboration with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Bloomberg Philanthropies, with the course reaching 750,000 learners.
The training course was available in three languages and was completed by 340,000 learners.
The training course also logged 3 million learning hours.
Coursera launched ‘Science Matters: Let’s Talk About COVID-19’ as a joint program with Imperial College London, reaching 260,000 learners.
Coursera reached 109,000 learners on its ‘Mind Control: Managing Your Mental Health During COVID-19’ program in collaboration with the University of Toronto.
107,000 learners accessed the ‘Fighting COVID-19 with Epidemiology Teach-Out’ course.