Courses
Courses from the platforms that actually publish quantum material, filed by platform, level, price and topic. Links to paid courses earn this site a commission.
Prof. Elias Fernandez-Combarro Alvarez, University of Oviedo
CERN openlab's free lecture series on quantum computing covering qubits, quantum algorithms, QAOA, VQE, and quantum machine learning. Taught by a University of Oviedo professor with no physics background required.
Amazon Web Services
AWS's free two-course plan: quantum computing basics, then Amazon Braket in notebooks. An AWS digital badge if you score 80% on the assessment.
Brilliant
Probability on Brilliant, from counting outcomes to the distribution a measurement returns. The Born rule sits on this.
Microsoft
Microsoft's free learning path for Azure Quantum covering Q#, quantum concepts, resource estimation, and the Azure Quantum platform.
IBM Quantum
IBM's free interactive introduction to quantum information. Covers single and multi-qubit states, quantum circuits, and entanglement with interactive exercises.
Q-CTRL
Q-CTRL's browser learning platform. Twelve skills from superposition through programming, plus application modules such as logistics and finance. A free tier samples the beginner skills; Pro is listed at $9.99 to $19.99 USD per month.
Brilliant
Complex numbers, amplitudes, phases, and the complex plane, as interactive problems. This is the notation a qubit state is written in.
Brilliant
Search, sort, Big O, and graphs, as interactive problems on Brilliant. The same counting is what you use when a quantum algorithm has a cost.
NVIDIA
NVIDIA's free open curriculum for hybrid quantum-classical computing on CUDA-Q. Interactive notebooks from a first qubit through QEC, chemistry, QAOA, QML and hybrid GPU-QPU workflows. Run locally, on Colab, qBraid, Brev or Braket.
IBM Quantum
IBM's free four-hour guide for teams starting a quantum initiative. Covers assembling a team, early-stage goals, partners, and metrics. Aimed at project leaders, not circuit programmers.
D-Wave
Preparatory course building the math and Python skills needed before D-Wave's Quantum Programming Core. Covers QUBO formulation, quadratic models, constraint writing, and Python for optimization. Optional but recommended for developers without strong math backgrounds.
D-Wave
D-Wave course on spotting optimization problems their hybrid solvers can take. Constraints and a business case. No maths or physics required.
edX
Lei Zhang (UMBC)
UMBC's six-week edX course on post-quantum cryptography for beginning STEM learners. Lectures and labs on quantum-safe encryption, Shor and Grover, and NIST-standard algorithms. Audit is free; a verified certificate is paid.
IonQ
IonQ Scientists and Engineers
IonQ's free 2-part lecture series taught by company scientists and engineers. Covers the history of quantum computing, trapped ion hardware architecture, and how to characterize quantum systems.
D-Wave
D-Wave's free introduction. How annealing machines differ from gate-model computers, and which optimization problems they are sold for. No background required.
Qubit by Qubit instructors (Stanford PhDs)
A two-semester year-long quantum computing course by The Coding School, taught by Stanford PhDs in partnership with Google Quantum AI. Free for partner schools; scholarships available for individual students.
edX
Diana Franklin (University of Chicago)
University of Chicago's edX beginner course from Diana Franklin. Basic algebra only. Quantum operations, qubit representation, measurement and superposition over five weeks. Audit is free; a verified certificate is paid.
IBM Quantum
Dr. Elisa Bäumer and Carmen Recio Valcarce, IBM Quantum
Two-week free Qiskit course on openHPI, taught by IBM Quantum researchers. Deutsch-Jozsa and Grover, written out in code.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram's quantum framework for Mathematica. Circuits, operators, and states as symbolic objects you can compute and plot.
IonQ
IonQ Researchers
IonQ's free 4-part lecture series on quantum programming. Covers quantum algorithms, circuits, programming with multiple SDKs, and quantum chemistry including VQE. Taught by IonQ researchers.
Qiskit
IBM Quantum / Qiskit Team
The original Qiskit Textbook, now archived on GitHub. Gates and circuits, Grover, Shor, error correction, and quantum machine learning, as Jupyter notebooks.
Brilliant
Deduction puzzles on Brilliant: order, negation, and working through cases. The same habits show up in proofs.
PennyLane
Xanadu
Xanadu's interactive textbook, now hosted as the PennyLane Codebook. Coding exercises in the browser.
PennyLane
Xanadu / PennyLane Team
PennyLane's browser exercises. 15 modules, from qubits and gates through Grover, Shor, error correction, and variational algorithms.
Coursera
Packt
Packt on Coursera. Qiskit from the first gates through Deutsch-Jozsa, quantum cryptography, and teleportation.
QWorld
QWorld's free, self-study quantum computing workshop. Covers quantum states, quantum operators, quantum protocols, and quantum search using Python and Jupyter notebooks. No physics background required.
Udemy
Kumaresan Ramanathan
Udemy course by Kumaresan Ramanathan. Quantum physics, then Qiskit and Q#, including jobs on IBM hardware, and a short introduction to quantum machine learning.
edX
CertificateDelft University of Technology (QuTech)
A professional certificate from Delft University of Technology. Qubits, quantum hardware, algorithms, error correction, and the quantum internet.
IBM Quantum
IBM's free three-hour course for a business audience: what the machines do, and where a company might use one. Optional Credly badge after IBM's exam.
IBM Quantum
IBM SkillsBuild
IBM SkillsBuild's free beginner learning content on quantum computing fundamentals. Visual learning activities and virtual labs covering qubits, superposition, entanglement, quantum gates, and basic circuit building.
Brilliant
Brilliant's quantum computing course uses puzzles and pictures. It sits inside a Brilliant subscription, and the free trial includes it.
Dr Steven Herbert, University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge's undergraduate Quantum Computing course, with lecture notes publicly available, covering qubits, superposition, entanglement, core quantum algorithms, and quantum cryptography. Accessible at no cost.
Qubit
QuantumComputingCourses
Nine free modules on this site, from what a qubit is to a circuit in Qiskit, using the Bloch sphere and the circuit builder. No signup.
Coursera
Fractal Analytics (Srinjoy Ganguly, Shalini Devendrababu)
Fractal Analytics on Coursera, for beginners. Two modules: history and theory, then qubits, gates, and circuits in Qiskit.
Coursera
Packt
A Qiskit-based course that moves from quantum fundamentals into the major quantum algorithms: teleportation, Deutsch, Bernstein-Vazirani, Grover's search, and Shor's factoring algorithm, with implementation on simulators and real quantum hardware.
QURECA
QURECA's 15-hour course for a non-technical audience, students through executives. On their LMS. They say it is CPD-certified. This site does not issue that certificate.
QURECA
Half-hour free sample of QURECA's Quantum for Everyone 2.0. Non-technical, on their own site.
Microsoft
Microsoft Quantum
Microsoft's free Q# exercises, in the browser. Each one is a programming problem, from single qubits through algorithms, checked as you go.
Brilliant
Brilliant / Sabine Hossenfelder
Quantum mechanics on Brilliant, with Sabine Hossenfelder. You work the simulations: states, superposition, and measurement.
QURECA
QURECA's four-hour beginner course on quantum strategy for a business audience. Listed at 200 EUR on their academy at the time of writing.
edX
Delft University of Technology
Written for managers. What a quantum computer breaks in today's cryptography, and how an organisation plans a quantum-safe migration.
edX
Delft University of Technology
The technical side of a quantum-safe migration: cryptography, trust infrastructures, hybrid security, and hybrid certificates. From Delft.
Coursera
SpecialisationPackt
Packt specialization on Coursera, three courses. High-school maths to start, then Qiskit and algorithms on IBM hardware. No programming experience required.
edX
Delft University of Technology (QuTech)
A Delft introduction with little maths: what a quantum computer is, and what a quantum internet is for.
Keio University / Rodney Van Meter
Keio University's accessible introduction to quantum computing on FutureLearn, taught by Rodney Van Meter. Explains the motivation for building quantum computers, the key principles, important algorithms, and a look at quantum hardware and the emerging industry, with minimal mathematics.
IBM Quantum
Olivia Lanes (IBM Quantum)
IBM Quantum Learning, taught by Olivia Lanes. The notebooks use a quantum computer from the start. Optional Credly badge after IBM's exam.
QURECA, QWorld, CTU Prague, University of Latvia
Free 50-hour technical course funded by the EIT Deep Tech Talent Initiative. Jointly curated by QURECA, QWorld, Czech Technical University in Prague and the University of Latvia. Python required, no prior quantum physics.
edX
Purdue University / Pramey Upadhyaya
The first course in Purdue University's Applied Quantum Computing series. Teaches the postulates of quantum mechanics and how they map onto present-day quantum information processing models including computation, simulation, optimization, and machine learning.
edX
Delft University of Technology (QuTech)
How Delft teaches the operation of a quantum computer: algorithms, error correction, micro-architectures, compilers, languages, and quantum internet protocols.
Q-CTRL and qBraid
A live Q-CTRL workshop, delivered with qBraid, that maps business problems onto quantum hardware. Half-day to one-day. Uses Black Opal for prep, Fire Opal to run algorithms, and qBraid Lab for notebooks. Price is not published; you register interest.
Google Quantum AI
Google Quantum AI's free self-paced tutorial series for the Cirq quantum programming framework. Covers circuit construction, noise models, algorithm implementation, and access to Google's Quantum Virtual Machine via Google Colab.
Classiq engineering and research team
Classiq's free tutorials. Algorithms are written in Qmod, their high-level language. Includes machine learning and optimization examples.
Prof. R. Shankar, Yale University
R. Shankar's Yale PHYS 201 lectures on Open Yale Courses. Electromagnetism and optics, then seven lectures on quantum mechanics: wave-particle duality, the Schrodinger equation, and measurement.
IBM Quantum
Free intermediate course from IBM covering Grover's search, quantum phase estimation, and the fundamentals of quantum algorithm design.
Austin Fowler
Google Quantum AI on Coursera, free to audit. Surface code, stabilizers, and the Stim and Crumble tools, with coding labs.
IBM Quantum
IBM's free six-hour course on hybrid quantum-classical workflows. Written for people who know either quantum computing or HPC, not both. Covers programming models, SQD and SKQD, and scheduling QPUs next to CPUs and GPUs.
PennyLane
Xanadu / Community
Xanadu's collection of hundreds of interactive PennyLane tutorials, including 50+ quantum machine learning demos covering VQE, QAOA, quantum kernels, quantum neural networks, and more.
Xanadu
Annual quantum hackathon run by Xanadu, the team behind PennyLane, with coding challenges covering PennyLane, hybrid algorithms, and quantum kernels. Talk recordings and challenge write-ups remain available online after each event.
QWorld
QWorld's free elementary workshop after QBronze. Jupyter notebooks on oracular algorithms: Deutsch, Deutsch-Jozsa, Bernstein-Vazirani, Simon, and Grover for Max-Cut, in Qiskit and Cirq. Self-study on GitLab, with periodic mentored workshops.
QWorld volunteer instructors
QWorld's free intermediate quantum programming workshop covering complex numbers, the quantum Fourier transform, and Shor's algorithm. The follow-on to QBronze, run as mentored online sessions through QWorld's global network.
IBM Quantum
IBM Quantum (Victoria Lipinska and others)
IBM's free introductory VQE course aimed at chemistry. Hamiltonians, ansatze, classical optimizers, ground-state energies and bond lengths with Qiskit patterns. About 6 to 10 hours.
TU Braunschweig / QTIndu / QURECA
Free five-hour intermediate course on quantum communication and networks, listed on QURECA's academy with QTIndu and TU Braunschweig. English and German.
edX
Delft University of Technology (QuTech)
Quantum networks on QuTech's Quantum Network Explorer. The simulations use QNE-ADK and SquidASM.
edX
CertificateDelft University of Technology (QuTech)
You program QuTech's Quantum Network Explorer and Quantum Inspire: simulations, then algorithms on those two platforms.
edX
University of Chicago
University of Chicago's edX course on quantum computer systems. Qiskit on cloud hardware, Bloch sphere, EPR pairs, teleportation. Four weeks, 8 to 12 hours per week. Audit free, verified certificate paid.
Quantum algorithms
QuantumComputingCourses
Eight modules after Quantum Computing 101. Where Grover and Shor get a speedup, what noise does on hardware, and what the transpiler changes before a circuit runs.
IBM Quantum
Max Rossmannek, Julian Schuhmacher, Alexander Miessen, and Laurin Fischer, IBM Quantum
Free openHPI course on quantum simulation for chemistry and materials science, developed with IBM Quantum. Covers the second quantization, molecular Hamiltonians, VQE for molecular ground states, and Qiskit Nature.
MIT xPRO / Isaac Chuang, William Oliver, Peter Shor, Aram Harrow
CertificateMIT xPRO's professional certificate program in quantum computing, taught by Isaac Chuang, William Oliver, Peter Shor, and Aram Harrow. A two-course program covering quantum computing fundamentals, algorithms for cybersecurity and chemistry, and the business implications of the technology.
IBM Quantum
IBM's free course on utility-scale quantum computing. Covers running large circuits on real IBM hardware, error mitigation, and near-term application areas using Qiskit Runtime.
edX
Delft University of Technology (QuTech)
Quantum hardware, practised on QuTech's Quantum Inspire simulators.
Prof. Isaac Chuang and Prof. Peter Shor, MIT
MIT's three-part interactive course on quantum information science covering quantum mechanics, protocols, algorithms, and communication. Fully free with graded exercises on the Open Learning Library.
Coursera
SpecialisationUniversity of Colorado Boulder / Wounjhang Park
University of Colorado Boulder's three-course specialization giving engineers the quantum mechanics foundation behind modern electrical, mechanical, and quantum engineering. Covers superposition, entanglement, measurement, the uncertainty principle, angular momentum, and approximation methods.
Coursera
École Polytechnique / Alain Aspect, Michel Brune
École Polytechnique on Coursera, co-taught by Alain Aspect, who shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics. How light is quantized, states of light, and single-photon experiments.
D-Wave
D-Wave developer training, about 35 hours: QUBO, Ising models, the Ocean SDK, hybrid solvers, and a portfolio example. Office hours with D-Wave staff. Several 2026 dates.
D-Wave
Quantum Programming Core plus one extra month of Leap cloud access. About 35 hours, then QPU time, for people new to Leap. About six weeks.
QURECA
QURECA's 20-hour intermediate course on quantum communications, QKD, post-quantum cryptography, QRNGs and quantum-risk assessment. Listed at 800 EUR on their academy at the time of writing (1,000 EUR full price).
QURECA
QURECA's 30-hour intermediate course on quantum sensing and imaging, listed with QTIndu at 600 EUR on their academy at the time of writing.
Udemy
Hoang Quy La
Udemy course by Hoang Quy La. Qubits, gates, and circuits in Python with Cirq and Qiskit, then Deutsch-Jozsa, Grover, the QFT, phase estimation, variational circuits, and a short section on error correction.
edX
Lieven Vandersypen and QuTech researchers (TU Delft)
How a quantum computer is built and driven, from Delft. Superconducting qubits, trapped ions, and the other platforms on the syllabus.
IBM Quantum
John Watrous
John Watrous's four-course video lecture series covering quantum information theory, algorithms, error correction, and the general formulation of quantum operations. Graduate-level rigor, freely available.
IBM Quantum
IBM's free eight-hour course on hybrid variational algorithms. Covers cost functions, ansatze, optimizers, VQE, SSVQE and VQD, using IBM Quantum primitives.
Brilliant
Vectors, matrices, transformations, and eigenvalues, as interactive problems. The linear algebra used to write gates and states.
Coursera
Sriram Sankaranarayanan (University of Colorado Boulder)
University of Colorado Boulder's Coursera course on RSA, Grover search, phase estimation and Shor's algorithm, plus B-trees and tries. Part of the Foundations of Data Structures and Algorithms specialization.
edX
Pramey Upadhyaya
The hardware-focused second course in Purdue University's Applied Quantum Computing series. Examines how present-day material platforms are engineered to perform quantum information processing: superconducting qubits, trapped ions and atoms, and spin-based systems.
edX
Pramey Upadhyaya
Last course in Purdue's Applied Quantum Computing series on edX. QFT, Grover, Shor, then optimization, simulation, chemistry, and machine learning, with cloud hardware.
edX
Giordano Scappucci, Menno Veldhorst, Eliška Greplová (QuTech, TU Delft)
Germanium qubits at Delft: the physics, fabrication, control, machine-learning tuning, then error correction and algorithms.
Prof. Dan Boneh and Will Zeng, Stanford
Stanford's CS269Q quantum computer programming course materials from Spring 2019, taught by Dan Boneh and Will Zeng. Lecture slides and project assignments cover pyQuil programming, benchmarking, VQE, QAOA, and error correction.
IBM Quantum
John Watrous
John Watrous's fourth IBM Learning course. Quantum error-correcting codes, the stabilizer formalism, CSS codes, the toric and surface codes, and fault-tolerant computation. About 15 hours. Free, with an optional Credly badge.
edX
Delft University of Technology (QuTech)
A Quantum 201 course from Delft. Quantum information written as circuits, and what you can do with entanglement.
Brilliant
Group theory on Brilliant. Symmetries, and the algebra used to write quantum gates and error-correcting codes.
Quantinuum
Quantinuum's InQuanto tutorial series for quantum chemistry simulation. 18+ tutorials from basic VQE to advanced molecular simulation of Fe4N2 on real Quantinuum hardware. Free to read; running the notebooks requires an InQuanto licence or trial.
Coursera
KAIST / Joonwoo Bae
KAIST's beginning-graduate-level introduction to quantum information, taught by Joonwoo Bae. Covers qubits, the axioms of quantum theory, entanglement as a resource, quantum teleportation, gates, circuits, and quantum communication channels.
edX
Eliška Greplová (QuTech, TU Delft)
Machine learning used to control and calibrate semiconductor quantum chips. An advanced course from Delft.
edX
CertificateDelft University of Technology (QuTech)
Delft's follow-up to Quantum 101. Qubits, entanglement, Shor's algorithm, and error correction. Linear algebra is assumed.
edX
CertificateDelft University of Technology (QuTech)
An advanced professional certificate on semiconducting quantum technologies, Germanium qubits, their physics, fabrication, machine learning-assisted control, and quantum error correction.
Prof. John Preskill, Caltech
Prof. John Preskill's lecture notes for Caltech PHYS 219. Free graduate notes on quantum information, algorithms, error correction, and cryptography.
Prof. Peter Shor, MIT
MIT's graduate-level quantum computation course covering quantum algorithms, complexity theory, and quantum information. Lecture notes and problem sets freely available.
edX
Fred Chong, Jonathan Baker, Yongshan Ding, Casey Duckering (University of Chicago)
University of Chicago's edX course on quantum architecture: circuit decomposition, uncomputation, hardware-specific and global circuit optimisation, gate scheduling. Four weeks, 8 to 12 hours per week. Audit free. Prerequisite is Systems Design I.
edX
Fred Chong, Jonathan Baker, Yongshan Ding, Casey Duckering (University of Chicago)
University of Chicago's edX course on NISQ systems: noisy hardware, NISQ algorithms, noise-aware compiling. Four weeks. Audit free. Follows Systems Design I and II.
Scott Aaronson (UT Austin)
Scott Aaronson's lecture notes. Quantum computing set next to complexity theory: BQP, QMA, quantum proofs, and quantum cryptography.
edX
Zubin Jacob (Purdue University)
Purdue's 17-week edX course on analysing and designing quantum sensors and detectors. The sensing course in the Quantum Technology: Computing and Sensing MicroMasters, taught by Zubin Jacob. Audit is free; a verified certificate is paid.
IBM Quantum
IBM's free ten-hour course on quantum approaches to matrix diagonalization, including VQE, sample-based quantum diagonalization (SQD) and sample-based Krylov methods, with discussion of classical versus quantum scaling.
edX
Christian Andersen (QuTech, TU Delft)
Algorithms and error correction at Delft, from the device through the software that runs on it.
IQC Faculty, University of Waterloo
Graduate quantum information at the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing. Courses on information, cryptography, and error correction.
Dr. Daniel Gottesman, Perimeter Institute
Daniel Gottesman's graduate-level quantum information lecture series recorded at Perimeter Institute. Fifteen recorded lectures covering entanglement, channels, error correction, and cryptography. Freely available on PIRSA.
Prof. Isaac Chuang and Prof. Aram Harrow, MIT
MIT's graduate-level follow-on to QIS I, covering quantum states and noise, advanced quantum algorithms, and quantum information theory. Free on the MIT Open Learning Library with graded exercises.
ETH Zurich Physics Department
ETH Zurich's graduate quantum information theory course covering quantum channels, entropy, capacity theorems, and quantum Shannon theory.
IBM Quantum
IBM's free ten-hour Quantum Learning course on quantum methods in machine learning, including variational quantum classifiers and quantum neural networks implemented in Qiskit.
QURECA
QURECA's 25-hour advanced QML course, listed with QTIndu. QUBO and D-Wave, parameterised circuits, QAOA, classifiers and clustering. 1,000 EUR on their academy at the time of writing.
IBM Quantum
Dr. Christa Zoufal, Julien Gacon, Dr. David Sutter (IBM Quantum)
Free openHPI course, with IBM Quantum Research, on quantum machine learning: variational classifiers, quantum kernels, and QGANs, in Qiskit.
IBM Quantum
Julien Gacon, Dr. Daniel J. Egger, Dr. Stefan Woerner, Lucia Cuervo Valor (IBM Quantum)
Free openHPI course on quantum approaches to combinatorial optimization, developed with IBM Quantum. Covers QAOA, VQE, and the quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) framework with Qiskit implementation.
Aleks Kissinger, Dept of Computer Science, University of Oxford
University of Oxford's computer science course on quantum processes and computation, taught with the diagrammatic ZX-calculus approach. Covers string diagrams, teleportation, quantum algorithms, and measurement-based quantum computing. Lecture notes are publicly available.
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| Course | Platform | Level | Difficulty | Price | Duration | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Practical Introduction to Quantum Computing (CERN) | Prof. Elias Fernandez-Combarro Alvarez, University of Oviedo | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Free | Self-paced (7 recorded lectures) | course |
| Amazon Braket Learning Plan and Digital Badge (AWS Skill Builder) | Amazon Web Services | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Free | 2.5 hours (2 courses) | course |
| Applied Probability | Brilliant | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Paid | Self-paced | course |
| Azure Quantum Learning Path (Microsoft) | Microsoft | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Free | 6 modules | course |
| Basics of Quantum Information (IBM Learning) | IBM Quantum | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Free | Self-paced | course |
| Black Opal (Q-CTRL) | Q-CTRL | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Paid | Self-paced | course |
| Complex Numbers | Brilliant | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Paid | Self-paced | course |
| Computer Science Fundamentals | Brilliant | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Paid | Self-paced | course |
| CUDA-Q Academic (NVIDIA) | NVIDIA | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Free | Self-paced | course |
| Designing and Leading Quantum Projects (IBM Learning) | IBM Quantum | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Free | 4 hours | course |
| Foundations for Quantum Programming (D-Wave) | D-Wave | beginner | Easy (2/5) | $350 | 10 hours | course |
| Getting Started with Applied Quantum Optimization | D-Wave | beginner | Easy (2/5) | $50 | 5 hours | course |
| Introduction to Post-Quantum Cryptography (UMBC) | edX | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Paid | 6 weeks, 7 hours per week | course |
| Introduction to Quantum Computers (IonQ Lecture Series) | IonQ | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Free | 2 lectures | course |
| Introduction to Quantum Computing (D-Wave) | D-Wave | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Free | 2-3 hours | course |
| Introduction to Quantum Computing (Qubit by Qubit) | Qubit by Qubit instructors (Stanford PhDs) | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Free | 2 semesters (September - April) | course |
| Introduction to Quantum Computing for Everyone (University of Chicago) | edX | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Paid | 5 weeks, 3-5 hours per week | course |
| Introduction to Quantum Computing with Qiskit (openHPI / IBM Quantum) | IBM Quantum | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Free | 2 weeks | course |
| Introduction to Quantum Computing with the Wolfram Language | Wolfram Research | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Free | 8 hours | course |
| Introduction to Quantum Programming (IonQ Lecture Series) | IonQ | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Free | 4 lectures | course |
| Learn Quantum Computing with Qiskit Textbook | Qiskit | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Free | Self-paced | course |
| Logic | Brilliant | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Paid | Self-paced | course |
| PennyLane Codebook (formerly Xanadu Quantum Codebook) | PennyLane | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Free | Self-paced | course |
| PennyLane Codebook: Interactive Quantum Computing Lessons | PennyLane | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Free | Self-paced | course |
| Practical Quantum Computing with IBM Qiskit for Beginners | Coursera | beginner | Easy (2/5) | $49 | 44 modules · ~10 hours | course |
| QBronze: Introduction to Quantum Computing and Quantum Programming (QWorld) | QWorld | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Free | 16-20 hours | course |
| QC101 Quantum Computing & Intro to Quantum Machine Learning | Udemy | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Paid | self-paced video | course |
| Quantum 101: Quantum Computing & Quantum Internet | edX | beginner | Easy (2/5) | $333 | 6-8 hours per week | certification |
| Quantum Business Foundations (IBM Learning) | IBM Quantum | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Free | 3 hours | course |
| Quantum Computing (IBM SkillsBuild) | IBM Quantum | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Free | 2-3 hours | course |
| Quantum Computing (Interactive) | Brilliant | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Paid | Self-paced | course |
| Quantum Computing (University of Cambridge) | Dr Steven Herbert, University of Cambridge | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Free | 16 lectures | course |
| Quantum Computing 101: From Zero to Your First Circuit | Our Course | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Free | 2h 45m | course |
| Quantum Computing For Everyone - An Introduction | Coursera | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Free | 8 hours | course |
| Quantum Computing with Qiskit and Advanced Algorithms | Coursera | beginner | Easy (2/5) | $49 | ~9 hours | course |
| Quantum for Everyone 2.0 | QURECA | beginner | Easy (2/5) | $400 | 15 hours | course |
| Quantum for Everyone 2.0 (free sample) | QURECA | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Free | 0.5 hours | course |
| Quantum Katas: Self-Paced Quantum Programming Exercises (Microsoft) | Microsoft | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Free | Self-paced | course |
| Quantum Mechanics with Sabine | Brilliant | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Paid | self-paced · interactive | course |
| Quantum Strategy for Business (QURECA) | QURECA | beginner | Easy (2/5) | $200 | 4 hours | course |
| Quantum-safe Digital Infrastructures: Challenges and Solutions for Governance | edX | beginner | Easy (2/5) | $150 | 3-4 hours per week | course |
| Quantum-safe Digital Infrastructures: Technical Challenges and Solutions | edX | beginner | Easy (2/5) | $150 | 3-4 hours per week | course |
| The Complete Quantum Computing Course for Beginners | Coursera | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Free | 3 courses · self-paced | specialization |
| The Quantum Internet and Quantum Computers: How Will They Change the World? | edX | beginner | Easy (2/5) | $169 | 2-3 hours per week | course |
| Understanding Quantum Computers (Keio University) | Keio University / Rodney Van Meter | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Free | 4 weeks | course |
| Use a Quantum Computer Today (IBM Learning) | IBM Quantum | beginner | Easy (2/5) | Free | Self-paced | course |
| ADEQUATE: Advanced End-to-end Quantum Computing Technical Course (QURECA) | QURECA, QWorld, CTU Prague, University of Latvia | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | Free | 50 hours | course |
| Applied Quantum Computing I: Fundamentals (Purdue) | edX | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | Free | 5 weeks · 7-8 hours/week | course |
| Architecture, Algorithms, and Protocols of a Quantum Computer and Quantum Internet | edX | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | $185 | 6 weeks (6-8 hours per week) | course |
| Black Opal Instructor-Led Training (Q-CTRL and qBraid) | Q-CTRL and qBraid | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | Paid | Half-day to one day (plus Black Opal prep) | course |
| Cirq Tutorials and Documentation (Google Quantum AI) | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | Free | Self-paced | course | |
| Classiq Quantum Computing Tutorials | Classiq engineering and research team | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | Free | Self-paced | course |
| Fundamentals of Physics II: E&M, Optics, and Quantum Mechanics (Yale) | Prof. R. Shankar, Yale University | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | Free | 25 lectures, self-paced | course |
| Fundamentals of Quantum Algorithms (IBM Learning) | IBM Quantum | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | Free | Self-paced | course |
| Hands-On Quantum Error Correction with Google Quantum AI | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | Free | 3 weeks (about 10 hours per week) | course | |
| Integrating Quantum and High-Performance Computing (IBM Learning) | IBM Quantum | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | Free | 6 hours | course |
| PennyLane Quantum Machine Learning Demos | PennyLane | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | Free | Self-paced | course |
| QHack 2024: Quantum Computing Hackathon and Coding Challenges | Xanadu | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | Free | Self-paced | course |
| QNickel: Oracular Quantum Algorithms (QWorld) | QWorld | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | Free | 16-20 hours | course |
| QSilver: Intermediate Quantum Computing Workshop (QWorld) | QWorld volunteer instructors | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | Free | 1 week (intensive) | course |
| Quantum Chemistry with VQE (IBM Learning) | IBM Quantum | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | Free | 6-10 hours | course |
| Quantum Communication and Quantum Networks (QURECA / QTIndu / TU Braunschweig) | TU Braunschweig / QTIndu / QURECA | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | Free | 5 hours | course |
| Quantum Communication and the Quantum Network Explorer | edX | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | $150 | 4 weeks, 4-5 hours per week | course |
| Quantum Computer and Quantum Internet Applications: Hands-on Training with QuTech's Quantum Demonstrators | edX | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | $270 | 2 courses of 4 weeks, 4-5 hours per week | certification |
| Quantum Computer Systems Design I: Intro to Quantum Computation and Programming (University of Chicago) | edX | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | Paid | 4 weeks, 8-12 hours per week | course |
| Quantum Computing 201: Algorithms, Noise and Real Hardware | Our Course | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | Free | 3 hours | course |
| Quantum Computing for Natural Sciences with IBM Quantum (openHPI) | IBM Quantum | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | Free | 2 weeks | course |
| Quantum Computing Fundamentals (MIT xPRO) | MIT xPRO / Isaac Chuang, William Oliver, Peter Shor, Aram Harrow | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | $2,500 | 2 courses · 4 weeks each | certification |
| Quantum Computing in Practice (IBM Learning) | IBM Quantum | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | Free | Self-paced | course |
| Quantum Hardware and its Applications with Quantum Inspire | edX | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | $150 | 4-5 hours per week | course |
| Quantum Information Science I (MIT Open Learning Library) | Prof. Isaac Chuang and Prof. Peter Shor, MIT | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | Free | Self-paced (3 parts) | course |
| Quantum Mechanics for Engineers (CU Boulder) | Coursera | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | $49 | 3 courses · ~12 weeks | specialization |
| Quantum Optics 1: Single Photons (École Polytechnique) | Coursera | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | Free | 3 weeks · ~10 hours/week | course |
| Quantum Programming Core (D-Wave) | D-Wave | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | $1,000 | 35 hours | course |
| Quantum Quick Start (D-Wave) | D-Wave | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | $5,000 | 6 weeks | course |
| Quantum Security: Preparing for the Post-Quantum World (QURECA) | QURECA | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | $800 | 20 hours | course |
| Quantum Sensing and Imaging (QURECA / QTIndu) | QURECA | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | $600 | 30 hours | course |
| The Complete Quantum Computing Course with Python [2025] | Udemy | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | Paid | 7.5 hours video · self-paced | course |
| The Hardware of a Quantum Computer | edX | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | $185 | 6 weeks, 6-8 hours per week | course |
| Understanding Quantum Information and Computation (IBM Learning) | IBM Quantum | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | Free | Self-paced | course |
| Variational Algorithm Design (IBM Learning) | IBM Quantum | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | Free | 8 hours | course |
| Vectors and Matrices | Brilliant | intermediate | Medium (3/5) | Paid | Self-paced | course |
| Advanced Data Structures, RSA and Quantum Algorithms (CU Boulder) | Coursera | advanced | Hard (5/5) | Paid | About 45 hours | course |
| Applied Quantum Computing II: Hardware (Purdue) | edX | advanced | Hard (5/5) | Free | 5 weeks · 7-8 hours/week | course |
| Applied Quantum Computing III: Algorithm and Software (Purdue) | edX | advanced | Hard (5/5) | Free | 5 weeks · 7-8 hours/week | course |
| Development and Applications of Germanium Quantum Technologies | edX | advanced | Hard (5/5) | $185 | 6 weeks, 6-7 hours per week | course |
| Elements of Quantum Computer Programming (Stanford CS269Q Lecture Materials) | Prof. Dan Boneh and Will Zeng, Stanford | advanced | Hard (5/5) | Free | Self-paced | course |
| Foundations of Quantum Error Correction (IBM Learning) | IBM Quantum | advanced | Hard (5/5) | Free | 15 hours | course |
| Fundamentals of Quantum Information | edX | advanced | Hard (5/5) | $185 | 4 weeks, 6-8 hours per week | course |
| Group Theory | Brilliant | advanced | Hard (5/5) | Paid | Self-paced | course |
| InQuanto: Quantum Chemistry Simulation Tutorials (Quantinuum) | Quantinuum | advanced | Hard (5/5) | Free | Self-paced (18+ tutorials) | course |
| Introduction to Quantum Information (KAIST) | Coursera | advanced | Hard (5/5) | Free | 7 modules · ~5-12 weeks | course |
| Machine Learning for Semiconductor Quantum Devices | edX | advanced | Hard (5/5) | $185 | 6 weeks, 6-7 hours per week | course |
| Quantum 201: Quantum Computing & Quantum Internet | edX | advanced | Hard (5/5) | $333 | 2 courses of 4 weeks, 6-8 hours per week | certification |
| Quantum 301: Quantum Computing with Semiconductor Technology | edX | advanced | Hard (5/5) | $333 | 2 courses of 6 weeks, 6-7 hours per week | certification |
| Quantum Computation (Caltech PHYS 219) | Prof. John Preskill, Caltech | advanced | Hard (5/5) | Free | Self-paced | course |
| Quantum Computation (MIT OpenCourseWare) | Prof. Peter Shor, MIT | advanced | Hard (5/5) | Free | Self-paced | course |
| Quantum Computer Systems Design II: Principles of Quantum Architecture (University of Chicago) | edX | advanced | Hard (5/5) | Paid | 4 weeks, 8-12 hours per week | course |
| Quantum Computer Systems Design III: Working with Noisy Systems (University of Chicago) | edX | advanced | Hard (5/5) | Paid | 4 weeks, 8-12 hours per week | course |
| Quantum Computing Since Democritus: Scott Aaronson's Lecture Notes | Scott Aaronson (UT Austin) | advanced | Hard (5/5) | Free | 21 lectures | course |
| Quantum Detectors and Sensors (Purdue) | edX | advanced | Hard (5/5) | Paid | 17 weeks, 7 hours per week | course |
| Quantum Diagonalization Algorithms (IBM Learning) | IBM Quantum | advanced | Hard (5/5) | Free | 10 hours | course |
| Quantum Error Correction and Algorithms | edX | advanced | Hard (5/5) | $185 | 4 weeks, 6-8 hours per week | course |
| Quantum Information (University of Waterloo IQC) | IQC Faculty, University of Waterloo | advanced | Hard (5/5) | Paid | Varies by course | course |
| Quantum Information Review (Perimeter Institute / PIRSA) | Dr. Daniel Gottesman, Perimeter Institute | advanced | Hard (5/5) | Free | Self-paced (15 recorded lectures) | course |
| Quantum Information Science II (MIT Open Learning Library) | Prof. Isaac Chuang and Prof. Aram Harrow, MIT | advanced | Hard (5/5) | Free | Self-paced (3 parts) | course |
| Quantum Information Theory (ETH Zurich) | ETH Zurich Physics Department | advanced | Hard (5/5) | Free | One semester | course |
| Quantum Machine Learning (IBM Learning) | IBM Quantum | advanced | Hard (5/5) | Free | 10 hours | course |
| Quantum Machine Learning (QURECA / QTIndu) | QURECA | advanced | Hard (5/5) | $1,000 | 25 hours | course |
| Quantum Machine Learning with IBM Quantum (openHPI) | IBM Quantum | advanced | Hard (5/5) | Free | 2 weeks, self-paced | course |
| Quantum Optimization with IBM Quantum (openHPI) | IBM Quantum | advanced | Hard (5/5) | Free | 2 weeks, 3 to 5 hours per week | course |
| Quantum Processes and Computation (Oxford) | Aleks Kissinger, Dept of Computer Science, University of Oxford | advanced | Hard (5/5) | Free | 24 lectures | course |