Public relations courses can help you learn media relations, crisis communication, brand management, and strategic messaging. You can build skills in audience analysis, content creation, and effective storytelling. Many courses introduce tools like press release software, social media management platforms, and analytics tools, that support measuring campaign success and engaging with diverse audiences.

Duke University
Skills you'll gain: Web Scraping, Data Ethics, Data Transformation, Tidyverse (R Package), Data Wrangling, Data Cleansing, Data Manipulation, Data Collection, Data Pipelines, Data Preprocessing, Personally Identifiable Information, Data Integrity, R Programming, Exploratory Data Analysis, Information Privacy, Statistical Programming
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

University of Minnesota
Skills you'll gain: Health Disparities, Social Determinants Of Health, Health Equity, Maternal Health, Statistical Software, Box Plots, Data Analysis, Health Policy, Child Health, Socioeconomics, Health Informatics, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Public Health, Data Visualization, Diversity Awareness, Policy Analysis
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: Instagram, Content Development and Management, Facebook, Content Strategy, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Strategy, Target Audience, Branding
Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

SkillUp
Skills you'll gain: Tableau Software, Peer Review, Data Storytelling, Dashboard, Presentations, Data Cleansing, Business Intelligence, Data Visualization Software, Data Visualization, Interactive Data Visualization, Data Quality, Data Preprocessing, Data Validation, Data Manipulation, Data Analysis, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Advanced · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Content Performance Analysis, Target Audience, Facebook, Driving engagement, Social Media Marketing, Customer Insights, Social Media, Social Media Management, Advertising, Marketing, Content Marketing, Performance Analysis, Content Creation, Digital Marketing, Performance Metric
Intermediate · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

University of Maryland, College Park
Skills you'll gain: Customer Retention, Customer Acquisition Management, Customer Analysis, Marketing Channel, Customer Engagement, Loyalty Programs, Customer Insights, Customer Relationship Management, Business-To-Consumer, Cross-Channel Marketing, Marketing Effectiveness, Consumer Behaviour, B2B Sales, Target Market, Operating Cost, Strategic Marketing, Business Metrics, Market Analysis
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Coursera
Skills you'll gain: Facebook, Social Media Management, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Drive Engagement, Promotional Strategies
Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

DeepLearning.AI
Skills you'll gain: Embeddings, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Vector Databases, Text Mining, Large Language Modeling, Performance Tuning
Beginner · Project · Less Than 2 Hours

Alfaisal University | KLD
Skills you'll gain: Financial Policy, Public Administration, Economics, Policy, and Social Studies, Economic Development, Economics, Budgeting, Fiscal Management, Public Policies, Policy Analysis
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Macquarie University
Skills you'll gain: Information Privacy, Data Security, Governance Risk Management and Compliance, Data Preprocessing, Cybersecurity, Cyber Risk, Security Strategy, Vulnerability Assessments, Project Design, Stakeholder Engagement, Risk Mitigation
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

University of Pittsburgh
Skills you'll gain: Data Storytelling, Interactive Data Visualization, Data Presentation, Plot (Graphics), Data Visualization Software, Data Visualization, Tableau Software, Spatial Analysis, Visualization (Computer Graphics), Statistical Visualization, Network Model, Dashboard, Matplotlib, Infographics, Heat Maps, Seaborn, Geospatial Information and Technology, Time Series Analysis and Forecasting, Network Analysis, Geospatial Mapping
Build toward a degree
Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Skills you'll gain: Pinterest, Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Business Marketing, Online Advertising, Small Business Accounting, User Accounts, Driving engagement
Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours