Learn the AI skill employers are paying more for. Master prompt engineering in about 9 hours, with no coding required.

AI skills now carry a measurable pay advantage. Workers with AI skills earn an average wage premium of 62%, according to PwC's 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer, an analysis of more than one billion job ads across 27 countries.¹ And the people who get the best results from generative AI aren't necessarily technical. They're the ones who know how to direct it. This IBM course teaches you prompt engineering: the practical skill of getting accurate, reliable, useful output from tools like ChatGPT. You'll learn how to write prompts that save time on real work, from drafting and research to analysis and planning, and how to evaluate AI output so you know when to trust it and when to push back. Built for professionals, executives, students, and AI enthusiasts, it requires no programming background. You'll go beyond basic instructions to the techniques professionals use: zero-shot and few-shot prompting for dependable results, the Interview Pattern for pulling better answers out of AI, and Chain-of-Thought and Tree-of-Thought methods for solving complex, multi-step problems. You'll also practice multimodal prompting, blending text and images, and writing effective prompts for image generation. This is hands-on from the start. Across three modules, you'll work through labs that put each technique into practice, then finish with a final project applying prompt engineering best practices to a real-world challenge. You'll come away with skills you can use at work the next day, and a project you can talk about in interviews and performance reviews. Skills you'll gain include: - Writing clear, structured prompts that produce reliable results - Applying zero-shot, few-shot, Chain-of-Thought, and Tree-of-Thought techniques - Using the Interview Pattern and Playoff Method to refine AI output - Evaluating AI responses for accuracy and usefulness - Creating effective prompts for text, multimodal, and image generation tools Join 680,000+ learners (4.7 stars from 8,000+ reviews, and 97% of learners liked this course). Finish with a shareable certificate you can add to your LinkedIn profile, resume, or CV. ¹ PwC 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer, June 2026. Premium is an average across AI-skilled roles and varies by industry and seniority.