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Understand the fundamentals of modern finance.
Understand the basics of corporate finance, capital budgeting, financial and real options, capital structure, yield curve analysis, and corporate risk management.
Apply financial decision making, efficient markets theory, valuation theory, financial securities, risk analysis, portfolio theory, derivative pricing, duration-based hedging strategies, and convexity and asset valuation models.
Identify the basic structure of financial reporting and the transaction recording process.
Understand how investors, creditors, and other users analyze financial statements to assess corporate performance.
Perform applied computational techniques in R and apply advanced mathematical topics in financial engineering and quantitative finance using linear algebra, optimization, probability, stochastic processes,
1 year 3 months. 10 - 14 hours per week suggested.
5 high-level virtual courses (graduate-level)
The skills and experience necessary for a career in finance are in high demand across countless industries.
From asset management to corporate and official institutions, career opportunities for qualified financial professionals continue to grow and evolve.
For example, the demand for financial analysts is projected to grow at a faster-than-average rate of 11% through 2026 (Source).
And according to Glassdoor, the median salary for a quantitative financial analyst was $106.575.
(Source) The MITx MicroMasters® Program in Finance offers recent graduates, early to mid-stage professionals, and others interested in pursuing a career in finance, an opportunity to advance in the field of finance or accelerate a Masters in Finance. MIT Sloan Finance through a rigorous and comprehensive online curriculum, delivered by the world-renowned MIT Sloan School of Management.
Drawn from the STEM-based curriculum taught on campus, the five online courses in this program mirror MIT's graduate-level courses on campus and cover the following topics: modern finance, financial accounting, mathematical methods for quantitative finance and derivatives markets.
Students who complete and pass each course in this online program can earn a MicroMasters in Finance program certificate and are considered affiliate members of the MIT Alumni Association.
Those students are eligible to apply to the MIT Sloan Master of Finance and, once accepted, earn credit for work completed online.
modern finance, financial accounting, mathematical methods for quantitative finance and derivatives markets.
Students who complete and pass each course in this online program can earn a MicroMasters in Finance program certificate and are considered affiliate members of the MIT Alumni Association.
Those students are eligible to apply to the MIT Sloan Master of Finance and, once accepted, earn credit for work completed online.
modern finance, financial accounting, mathematical methods for quantitative finance and derivatives markets.
Students who complete and pass each course in this online program can earn a MicroMasters in Finance program certificate and are considered affiliate members of the MIT Alumni Association.
Those students are eligible to apply to the MIT Sloan Master of Finance and, once accepted, earn credit for work completed online.
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