Category
Professional certifications
Who AI recommends when asked about professional certifications. 31 brands on the list today.
CISSP, Coursera and PMI tie for first on score.
- Brands listed
- 31
- Leader
- 3 tied
- CISSP, Coursera, PMI
- All on 100.0, listed A to Z
- Lead
- Tied
- Three share first, 100.0
- With 2 others
- Category average
- 37.9
- Average place 5.5
- Across the 31
CISSP, Coursera and PMI share the lead. 24 of the 31 are named in only a fifth of answers.
Where each brand lands in the answer, from first place to tenth, and how often it is named at all.
| # | Brand | Place | Named | Score | Sector |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1= | CISSP | 1.0 | 20% | 100.0 | Platform |
| 1= | Coursera | 1.0 | 60% | 100.0 | Platform |
| 1= | PMI | 1.0 | 20% | 100.0 | B2B |
| 4= | CISM | 2.0 | 20% | 91.3 | B2B |
| 4= | edX | 2.0 | 60% | 91.3 | Platform |
| 6= | CAPM | 3.0 | 20% | 64.0 | Finance |
| 6= | CompTIA | 3.0 | 20% | 64.0 | B2B |
| 6= | HarvardX Data Science Professional Certificate | 3.0 | 20% | 64.0 | Platform |
| 9= | 3.5 | 40% | 56.3 | Platform | |
| 9= | Udemy | 3.5 | 40% | 56.3 | Platform |
| 11 | PMP | 4.0 | 20% | 49.0 | B2B |
| 12= | Pluralsight | 5.0 | 20% | 36.0 | Platform |
| 12= | PMI-ACP | 5.0 | 20% | 36.0 | B2B |
| 12= | Udacity | 5.0 | 40% | 36.0 | Platform |
| 15= | CISA | 5.5 | 20% | 30.3 | Hardware |
| 15= | PRINCE2 | 5.5 | 20% | 30.3 | B2B |
| 17 | 5.7 | 60% | 28.4 | Platform | |
| 18 | HubSpot | 6.0 | 20% | 25.0 | Platform |
| 19= | AgilePM | 7.0 | 20% | 16.0 | B2B |
| 19= | IBM | 7.0 | 20% | 16.0 | Platform |
| 19= | IPMA | 7.0 | 20% | 16.0 | B2B |
| 19= | Simplilearn | 7.0 | 20% | 16.0 | Platform |
| 23 | Microsoft | 7.5 | 40% | 12.3 | Platform |
| 24= | AWS | 8.0 | 20% | 9.0 | Platform |
| 24= | CCSP | 8.0 | 20% | 9.0 | B2B |
| 24= | SAS | 8.0 | 20% | 9.0 | Platform |
| 27= | OSCP | 9.0 | 20% | 4.0 | Platform |
| 27= | Skillshare | 9.0 | 20% | 4.0 | Platform |
| 27= | Tableau | 9.0 | 20% | 4.0 | Platform |
| 30= | CEH | 10.0 | 20% | 1.0 | Platform |
| 30= | DataCamp | 10.0 | 20% | 1.0 | Platform |
= means tied on score
How this list works
AI is asked about professional certifications every day. A brand’s score reflects where it lands in the answers that name it, so 100 means named first every time. Named is the share of answers that mention it at all. Names that fail our checks are counted but not listed.