Best Product Management Courses: Top 8 Platforms

Coursera

Coursera is the world’s largest platform for online courses. It offers classes and specializations from universities and other institutions. In addition, unlike most other sites, Coursera also offers the chance to earn an accredited master’s degree.

Coursera Courses:

$29-$99 per course

.You can choose from multiple product management online courses. Each one of them has a duration of 4-6 weeks and includes video lectures, lessons and community discussion forums. After you finish the course successfully, you get a course certificate.

Coursera Specialization:

$39-$79 per month

The specialization includes a series of courses, projects and challenges. You can acquire and expand specific professional skills. It takes about 4-6 months to complete a specialization, and you will gain a certificate.

Coursera Online Degree:

$15,000-$25,000

Coursera offers the chance to earn a university-recognized product management degree. After 1-3 years of study, you receive an accredited master’s degree.

Coursera for Business: Coursera for Business is a professional learning platform from Coursera. You can compile sets of courses for your employees. Moreover, you can analyze the learning behavior of your employees and evaluate their engagement and successes.

You can decide between two different plans (Team and Enterprise). Prices start at $400/user/year. For larger companies, individual prices can be requested.

Best Coursera Product Management Course:

Digital Product Management: Modern Fundamentals by the University of Virginia.

edX

edX is a non-profit organization that offers online courses from universities in the United States. Some of the institutions edX works with are Harvard, MIT and British Columbia.

It also offers the chance to earn a master’s degree.

edX Pricing:

All courses can be attended for free. Verified certificates are available for a fee.

edX Courses:

edX offers free product management courses from over 130 partners.

If you’re on the hunt for a verified certificate, you can get one for a fee. To receive it, you need to verify your identity. edX also offers Xseries certificates that show that you have completed a series of courses.

Master’s degree: $10,000-$25,000

After 1-3 years of online studying, the students “will earn a full Master’s degree—typically the same exact diploma that students earn on-campus, such as a Master of Science in Computer Science or a Master of Science in Accounting.” (edX)

The master’s degrees offered are from universities like Georgia Tech, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of California San Diego.

edX for Business: edX offers a second platform for businesses. With this, you can “train your teams with more than 2,200 courses by 130+ of the world’s top institutions and leading companies.” (edX)

You can measure the learning engagement and success of your employees too.

Best edX Product Management Course:

Digital Transformation Leadership by Boston University.

Udemy

Udemy offers more than 100,000 courses from over 42,000 different lecturers and supports over 50 languages. Unlike other platforms, the product management courses do not come from universities but from independent experts.

Udemy Pricing:

Both free and paid product management courses.

Udemy Certificates:

After completing a course, you get a certificate of completion. Udemy is not an accredited institution. Because of this, you can’t generally use these certificates for formal accreditation. Some of the online courses offer additional certificates outside of Udemy though.

Udemy for Business: The Udemy for Business program gives companies the chance to offer their employees access to more than 3,000 Udemy courses across more than 20 topics. The business model includes an analytics tool to track the engagement and effort of employees. There are different pricing plans, starting at $240.

Best Udemy Product Management Course:

Become a Product Manager | Learn the Skills & Get the Job:

MindTheProduct

“MindTheProduct is the world’s largest product community.” (MindTheProduct)

This platform doesn’t offer the typical massive open online courses (MOOCs). Despite that fact, we’ve decided to add it to the list after receiving many recommendations. The Slack channel, offline training, conferences, and the community are great for both online and offline learning.

MTP Slack:

The MindTheProduct Slack channel is a tool to connect with other active product managers, ask questions and learn from their experiences.

MTP Conferences:

Conferences are offered all over the world and combine product talks, workshops and the chance to connect with others.

MTP Training:

“Mind the Product Training lets your teams access the knowledge and cutting-edge insight of expert product managers (our trainers) through in-depth, interactive training workshops.” (MindTheProduct)

ProductTank:

ProductTank is an informal meeting available in over 155 cities around the world to share experiences and knowledge. A community of product managers, designers and developers.

Product School

Product School offers courses on 6 different topics: Product Management, Coding, Data Analytics, Digital Marketing, UX Design and Product Leadership. You can attend these courses in one of the locations in the U.S., Canada and Europe, or online.

What differentiates the Product School from other product manager training programs is that all “instructors are active product managers at top technology companies. The program is hands-on, designed to be compatible with your work schedule and geared towards helping you transition successfully into a product role.” (Product School)

Product School Pricing:

$3,999 per course

Online courses: If you don’t have the chance to attend in person, you can take the online courses. These courses offer the same content as the in-person ones and are created by the same product managers. You will get a certificate, too.

Skillshare

Skillshare offers over 22,000 classes on several topics. Unlike the other platforms, it doesn’t offer long classes but short video courses, which often just take an hour or less. You can quickly learn about the specific skills you need for your daily work.

Skillshare Pricing:

Free classes and a premium version.

Skillshare for Teams: Skillshare for Teams starts at $499/user/year. You get access to over 16,000 classes and a reporting tool to track the progress of your team members.

LinkedIn Learning

LinkedIn is the largest professional network in the world. LinkedIn Learning offers courses for three different topics: business, technology and creativity.

LinkedIn Pricing:

Startsat 17.84 € per month. It is free if you have a LinkedIn Premium account.

LinkedIn Certificates:

LinkedIn Learning offers certificates of completion to product management course members who complete a course and watch all the videos. You don’t have to complete exercises or tests, so naturally, the certificates are not accredited.

Edukatico

“Edukatico is a free and independent search portal for online courses.” (Edukatico)

With the help of Edukatico, you can search for more than 8,000 online lectures from over 50 providers. It helps you search, filter, and compare the best product management courses.

The course planner will help you organize the courses you are interested in.

Bonus Course: Product Toolkit

Product Toolkit is an online course that focuses on examples and proven templates to help people do great product management work. It covers 70 lessons, 65 examples, and 27 templates across many topics — from running brainstorms to setting goals, scoping products, leading meetings, and negotiating.

It was created by Linda Zhang, the founder of Product Lessons, who was previously a Group PM at Faire and turned down a Senior PM offer from Instagram.

Product Toolkit Pricing:

Product Toolkit offers a variety of online tiers starting at $129. You can also get free access to weekly insights through their newsletter

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