Explore the winners of the Coursera 2025 Customer Awards and celebrate the organization that drives innovation and learning excellence around the world.
Thirteen years ago, Coursera began with a simple and revolutionary idea: The transformational education should be available on a large scale. Today, as we mark our 13th year, the idea has evolved into a global reality – learning changes industries, reshapes careers, and has a measurable impact on the scale we once imagined.
This number tells an amazing story: 183 million learners worldwide, governments reshape national education strategies, companies that drive millions of dollars in business value, and universities redefine what it means to prepare students for tomorrow’s economy. Behind these statistics is how the world approaches a fundamental shift in learning, skills and human potential.
At the 13th Annual Coursera Conference in Las Vegas on September 9, 2025, we celebrated the evolution of the movement. Our Outstanding Achievement Awards recognize organizations and leaders who go beyond experimentation to achieve change impacts, demonstrating that digital learning is successful in every department.
Among hundreds of nominations around the world, our internal committees evaluate entries based on the dimensions of impact, innovation, participation, values, and community contribution. Selected winners demonstrate learning how to drive national competitiveness, corporate transformation and personal empowerment.
Now let’s meet the winners and finalists of our 2025 Global Awards.
AI Innovation Award
The award recognizes organizations that use AI to enhance their learning programs or drive the acquisition of AI skills and achieve outstanding results.
Global winners: Max
Maxis became a regional leader in AI adoption and launched Coursera’s Genai Academy on the first day of its availability. Their comprehensive AI learning strategy demonstrates end-to-end innovation in Genai-driven learning, which results in a 90% completion rate for AI courses.
Maxis’ innovative approaches include custom learning paths built using course builders, Gamifiend AI campaigns, and credit badges – creating a clear example of how innovation can make measurable transformations at scale.
Global Finalists: FPT University
Participation in Excellence Award
The award recognizes institutions that have demonstrated excellence in learner engagement and implementation of innovative programs.
Global winners: Estée Lauder
Through their “Develop Your Skills” program, Estée Lauder empowers employees around the world to develop personalized learning paths that align with business needs. Their global scale program has achieved excellent engagement metrics, leveraging 96%, and recorded over 7,000 learning times at all skill levels.
Their multi-channel engagement strategy has curated skills, dashboards, automatic reminders and success stories that are integrated into performance reviews and career mobility programs, creating models for continuous learning excellence.
Global Finalists: Interbank
Maximize Influence Award
The award recognizes organizations that utilize Coursera’s products to make a significant, broad impact.
Global winners: University of Peruna de Cecias (UPC)
UPC has built one of the most comprehensive digital learning ecosystems in Latin America, integrating Coursera into the heart of its academic curriculum. Their achievements in democratizing visits and improving employability are outstanding, with over 540,000 certificates issued, 700,000 credits and an 85% employment rate for graduates.
UPC’s innovative use of AI ratings, Coursera coaches, translation capabilities and self-programming pathways demonstrates how personalized learning can drive academic excellence and career readiness at a large scale.
Global Finalists: PricewaterhouseCoopers India
Talent Transformation Award
The award recognizes a corporate client who has the best leverage of Coursera that can provide new skills and increase productivity for their employees.
Global winners: aptiv
Aptiv has transformed how 23,000 employees around the world can learn and grow through Coursera’s enhanced Aptiv Academy. Their comprehensive talent development approach brings outstanding results to more than 15,000 active users, over 140,000 study times, and shows higher internal mobility and reduced turnover.
Through personalized learning paths, multilingual support, custom course builder content, protected study time, and a comprehensive support structure that includes weekly office hours, Aptiv creates a workforce ready to lead its industry.
Global Finalists: Ernst and Young
Study Hero Award
This particular award shows that an individual exhibits a clear commitment to fostering a learning environment.
Global winners: Minister Sayasat Nurbek, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Kazakhstan
Under the vision of Minister Nalbek, Kazakhstan has formulated a bold national strategy to modernize its higher education system. This initiative uses education as the power of national transformation to illustrate:
- There are 95 universities in the country
- More than 129,000 learners received nearly 250,000 certificates
- Teachers nationwide are trained in Coursera tools and methods
- Inclusion of local content involves rural and underserved communities
Minister Nurbek’s plan, in embedding lifelong learning into a wider national skills movement, truly embodies the meaning of being a learning hero, integrates lifelong learning into a wider national skills movement, and conducts large-scale learning for career-related learning.
Global Finalists: Digital Technology Department in collaboration with the Uzbekistan IT Education Association
Rising Star Award
The award celebrates a client who recently embraced Coursera and showed impressive early results and recognizes organizations that show strong adoption, high learner engagement, and clear signs of lasting transformation.
Global winners: Pembangunan Jaya University (UPJ)
Six months after incorporating Coursera into its undergraduate program, UPJ caused a rapid and meaningful impact. Students are already using the Coursera certificate to apply and internship. Meanwhile, teachers are using the curriculum builder tool to redesign teaching to create a digital future.
UPJ’s commitment to student success, especially for learners facing overseas learning disabilities, suggests that transformative learning can take root when aligned with clear vision and strong institutional support.
Global Finalists: Texas A&M University System
For the 183 million learners who make up our global community, organizations that prioritize learning strategic priorities and those that advocate education as a leader in progressive forces: You are writing about the future, one skill at a time.
Thank you for making Coursera a sport. This is the next chapter of human potential, powered by the transformative power of learning.
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