About this MicroMasters
The skills and expertise required for a career in finance are in high demand across countless industries. From asset management, to corporations, to official institutions, the career opportunities for qualified finance professionals continue to grow and evolve. For example, demand for financial analysts is predicted to grow at a faster than average rate of 11% through 2026 (
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The MITx MicroMasters® Program in Finance offers recent graduates, early to mid-stage professionals, and other individuals interested in pursuing a career in finance, an opportunity to advance in the finance field or fast-track an MIT Sloan Master of Finance through a rigorous, comprehensive online curriculum, delivered by the world-renowned MIT Sloan School of Management.
Drawn from the STEM-based curriculum taught on campus, all five online courses in this program mirror on-campus graduate-level MIT coursework and cover the following topics: modern finance, financial accounting, mathematical methods for quantitative finance, and derivatives markets. Learners who complete and pass each course in this online program may earn a MicroMasters program certificate in finance, and are considered affiliate members of the MIT Alumni Association. Those learners are eligible to apply to the MIT Sloan Master of Finance and upon acceptance, earn credit for the work performed online.
What you'll learn
- Comprehend the foundations of modern finance.
- Understand the basics of corporate finance, capital budgeting, real and financial options, capital structure, yield curve analysis, and corporate risk management.
- Apply financial decision making, the theory of efficient markets, valuation theory, financial securities, risk analysis, portfolio theory, derivatives pricing, hedging strategies based on duration and convexity, and asset pricing models.
- Identify the basic structure of financial reports and the process of recording transactions. 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, and statistics.
| From | MITx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology via edX |
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| Hours | 120 |
| Instructors | Leonid Kogan, Jiang Wang, Egor Matveyev, Paul F. Mende, Deborah J. Lucas |
| Language | English |
| Subjects | Data Science Business Mathematics |
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Foundations of Modern Finance I (You were viewing this course) This is a two-part course, and part of the MicroMasters® Program in Finance. It provides a rigorous and comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of modern finance and their... edX | MITx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Foundations of Modern Finance II Many of the most important financial decisions in business are done under uncertainty. This is the second course in the Foundations of Modern Finance series of courses, as part of... edX | MITx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Mathematical Methods for Quantitative Finance Modern finance is the science of decision making in an uncertain world, and its language is mathematics. As part of the MicroMasters® Program in Finance, this course develops the... edX | MITx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Derivatives Markets: Advanced Modeling and Strategies Financial derivatives are ubiquitous in global capital markets, and those products and the institutions around them continue to evolve at a rapid pace. This course is part of the... edX | MITx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| From | MITx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology via edX |
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| Hours | 120 |
| Instructors | Leonid Kogan, Jiang Wang, Egor Matveyev, Paul F. Mende, Deborah J. Lucas |
| Language | English |
| Subjects | Data Science Business Mathematics |
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Assistant Banquets & Conference Services MIT Manager $40k
Banquets & Conference Services MIT $43k
Training MIT $56k
Assistant Housekeeping MIT Manager $67k
Food and Beverage MIT Manager $67k
Plant Manufacturing Information Technologist (MIT) $76k
Marketing Specialist, MIT Federal Credit Union $81k
MIT (Operations) Manager $87k
Management in Training (MIT) Manager $99k
Program Manager, MIT Media Laboratory $100k
MIT Training Manager $103k
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