MicroMasters® Program in Finance

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Course Features

Duration

15 months

Delivery Method

Online

Available on

Limited Access

Accessibility

Desktop, Laptop

Language

English

Subtitles

English

Level

Advanced

Effort

14 hours per week

Teaching Type

Instructor Paced

Course Description

Many industries are looking for the skills and expertise needed to make a career as a finance professional. The number of career options for qualified financial professionals is growing and evolving, from asset management to corporate finance to official institutions. According to Source, the demand for financial analysts will grow at a faster rate than the average 11% growth rate through 2026. Glassdoor also reported that the median income for a quantitative analyst was $106,575. (Source)

The MITx MicroMasters® Program in Finance provides opportunities for recent graduates, mid-stage professionals and others interested in pursuing a career in financial services. It offers the opportunity to accelerate your MIT Sloan Master of Finance or advance in the field of finance through a rigorous online curriculum delivered by the MIT Sloan School of Management.

The five online courses are based on the STEM-based curriculum on campus. They mirror the on-campus graduate-level MIT coursework. The MicroMasters certificate in finance may be earned by learners who successfully complete each course. Affiliate members of the MIT Alumni Association are also available to those who pass all courses in the online program. These learners can apply for the MIT Sloan Master of Finance. Once accepted, they will be able to earn credit for their online work.

Course Overview

Live Class

Human Interaction

International Faculty

Post Course Interactions

Instructor-Moderated Discussions

Skills You Will Gain

What You Will 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

Course Content

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Module 1: Foundations of Modern Finance I

Module 2: Foundations of Modern Finance II

Module 3: Financial Accounting

Module 4: Mathematical Methods for Quantitative Finance

Course Instructors

Egor Matveyev

Executive Director of MicroMasters Program in Finance

Egor Matveyev is an Executive Director of the MicroMasters Program in Finance and a Senior Lecturer in Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research interests are in the fields of corpo...

Paul F. Mende

Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management

Paul Mende is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Mende co-founded, co-owned, and served as director of research from 2002 to 2010 for Fort Hill Capital Mana...

Leonid Kogan

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Professor of Management and a Professor of Finance

Leonid Kogan is the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Professor of Management and a Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic...

Jiang Wang

Mizuho Financial Group Professor and a Professor of Finance, Sloan School of Management

Jiang Wang is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor and a Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Wang's research focuses on the pricing of financial assets and investment and risk ...