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[2023] 250 Top Udemy Courses of All Time

A list of Udemy’s 250 most popular online courses. Combined, they’ve gathered 79.5 million enrollments.

Dhawal Shah Feb 13th, 2023

Udemy is one of the largest online learning platforms for professional learning. According to the company, they have 57 million registered users. An analysis by Class Central shows they’ve launched over 200,000 courses since 2010.

The pandemic boosted the fortune of many online providers. Udemy was no exception. In 2020, propelled by the pandemic, they raised $123 million and increased their valuation by over $1 billion.

In 2022, the situation changed. Overall, the company raised ~$300 million at a valuation over $3 billion. But Udemy’s market cap has significantly fallen, like that of many other online course platforms.

In this course ranking, let’s explore the best of the best that Udemy has to offer.

Udemy By the Numbers

Analyzing Udemy’s catalog with my colleague @Archisha, we discovered that they currently have over 202,000 courses — which amounts to a 33% increase in the last 2 years. You may find a complete analysis of Udemy’s catalog here: 202K Courses, 662M Enrollments: Breaking Down Udemy’s Massive Catalog.

Combined, Udemy’s 202K courses have gathered ~662 million enrollments and average 3274 enrollments per course. What I found most surprising is that the median enrollment is only 240, which means that half of Udemy’s courses don’t reach 240 learners.

Currently, there are 718 courses with over 100K enrollments and 4 courses with over a million enrollments.

Do Udemy courses satisfy the Pareto 80/20 principle? I found that Udemy’s top-20% courses by enrollment account for 91% of all enrollments.

You can also find some of the best Udemy courses on Class Central’s catalog page.

250 Top Udemy Courses

Here’s a quick summary of 250 Udemy top courses based on the number of enrollments:

Enrollments range from 187K to 1.8M. There are 4 courses with over 1M enrollments.
Combined, they account for 79.5M enrollments, with an average of 318K enrollments.
31% of the courses are free.
90% of the courses are in English.
Combined, they represent 4K hours of content.

Without further ado, here are the top 250 courses on Udemy sorted by number of enrollments:

Dhawal Shah

Dhawal is the CEO of Class Central, the most popular search engine and review site for online courses and MOOCs. He has completed over a dozen MOOCs and has written over 200 articles about the MOOC space, including contributions to TechCrunch, EdSurge, Quartz, and VentureBeat.

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arlo 3/17/2021 at 8:00pm

Thank you so so much. I’m blessed to have stumbled upon this article. Now I have tens of free courses and it’s all because you took the time and effort to share this!

I can’t appreciate you enough!

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John Megill 8/29/2021 at 9:36am

I found these free courses via Class Central. I am so excited to be part of the Udemy class-mates. This year will be the year for learning online!

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Diana Agyapomaa Asante 9/16/2021 at 2:56am

You people are so generous. There is no excuse for being uneducated, these free online courses are open to everyone who is ever ready to learn. Am very impressed with this initiative. Thanks to those who developed this medium of free and authentic education, thereby making our dreams a reality.

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Muskan Ray 11/11/2021 at 12:15am

THANKS, Udemy, and all their teachers and members, I really happy that I use your site because I covered lots of Online Courses as Ethical hacking, Linux, cyber Security free of cost. It’s free and valuable all the teachers too gd and motivated . They all time active and dedicated. thanku thanku sir by Muskan Ray

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