India courses skills up on Artificial Intelligence & Data Science in 2017
- Coursera reveals list of top 10 most popular courses across domains including technology and business
- Enterprises increasingly opt for a mix of courses around Technology, Marketing, Leadership and Strategy
New Delhi – Coursera, the global leader in online education and learning, today announced the list of the ’10 Most Popular Courses in India – 2017’, based on the average daily enrollments by Indian learners over the past year.
Coursera with 2.6 million Indian learners out of 30 million globally, has seen massive uptake for courses related to Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. 2017’s 10 most popular courses list indicate that cutting-edge tech skills continue to be the most sought after skills. Indian learners showed great appetite for high quality, career-relevant courses like Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Deep Learning, Introduction to Data Science, Programming for Everybody. They featured as the most popular courses this year, following the trends from 2016.
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Artificial intelligence dominated the list of top courses this year, taking three of the spots in top 10 list, including the Machine Learning and Deep Learning courses taught by co-founder Andrew Ng and a Machine Learning course from the University of Toronto. Blockchain has also burst onto the scene, putting Princeton’s Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency course at number seven on the list. ‘Learning How to Learn’ also remained extremely popular among people of all ages.
Interestingly the popular Business oriented courses list featured a mix of courses like Financial Markets, Design Thinking for Innovation, Marketing in the Digital World along with Successful Negotiation and Introduction to Public Speaking.
Top Software Engineering Courses
Courses on future technologies and wider skill based courses boosting career opportunities, featuring in the ‘most popular’ list suggests that the individual Indian learner keeps a long term professional outlook.
Coursera for Business, an enterprise platform for workforce development, has seen a high demand for courses around Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Data Science. The enterprise platform has noted an increase in enrollments for courses like Leadership, Design Thinking and Operations Strategy & Execution that help enterprises develop the future-ready workforce.
Talking about the trends, Raghav Gupta, India Country Director, Coursera said, “As the emergence of automation threatens jobs, increasingly individual learners as well as enterprises both will look for adding new skills. The trends we saw in 2017 will continue in 2018 as well. While tech skills will remain at the core, Blockchain, business, data analytics, leadership, innovation and strategy courses will garner greater interest over the next year.”
Following is the list of the most popular courses from 2017-
| India: Most Popular Courses of 2017 |
| S.No. | Course | University |
| 1 | Machine Learning | Stanford University |
| 2 | Neural Networks and Deep Learning | deeplearning.ai |
| 3 | Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python) | University of Michigan |
| 4 | Algorithms, Part I | Princeton University |
| 5 | Introduction to Mathematical Thinking | Stanford University |
| 6 | Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects | University of California, San Diego |
| 7 | Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies | Princeton University |
| 8 | R Programming | Johns Hopkins University |
| 9 | Build Your First Android App (Project-Centered Course) | CentraleSupélec |
| 10 | Introduction to Data Science in Python | University of Michigan |
| India: Most Popular Business Courses of 2017 | ||
| 1 | Financial Markets | Yale University |
| 2 | Design Thinking for Innovation | University of Virginia |
| 3 | Successful Negotiation: Essential Strategies and Skills | University of Michigan |
| 4 | Marketing in a Digital World | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 5 | Introduction to Public Speaking | University of Washington |
| 6 | Marketing Analytics | University of Virginia |
| 7 | Customer Analytics | University of Pennsylvania |
| 8 | Financial Engineering and Risk Management Part I | Columbia University |
| 9 | Trading Basics | Indian School of Business |
| 10 | Introduction to Financial Accounting | University of Pennsylvania |
| India: Most Popular Technology Courses of 2017 | ||
| 1 | Machine Learning | Stanford University |
| 2 | Neural Networks and Deep Learning | deeplearning.ai |
| 3 | Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python) | University of Michigan |
| 4 | Algorithms, Part I | Princeton University |
| 5 | Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies | Princeton University |
| 6 | R Programming | Johns Hopkins University |
| 7 | Build Your First Android App (Project-Centered Course) | CentraleSupélec |
| 8 | Introduction to Data Science in Python | University of Michigan |
| 9 | Neural Networks for Machine Learning | University of Toronto |
| 10 | Introduction to Programming with MATLAB | Vanderbilt University |
| Global- Most Popular Courses in 2017 | ||
| 1 | Machine Learning | Stanford University |
| 2 | Neural Networks and Deep Learning | deeplearning.ai |
| 3 | Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects | University of California, San Diego |
| 4 | Introduction to Mathematical Thinking | Stanford University |
| 5 | Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies | Princeton University |
| 6 | Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python) | University of Michigan |
| 7 | Algorithms, Part I | Princeton University |
| 8 | English for Career Development | University of Pennsylvania |
| 9 | Neural Networks for Machine Learning | University of Toronto |
| 10 | Financial Markets | Yale University |
About Coursera
Coursera is an online education company that partners with 150 of the world’s top universities and education institutions to offer courses, Specializations, and degrees that empower learners around the world to achieve their career, educational, and personal enrichment goals throughout their lives. Since launching in 2012, the company has grown to 29 million registered learners who can choose among 2,000 courses and 180 Specializations available to enroll in at any time.
For more information, visit www.coursera.org
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