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.
Program Overview
Expert instruction
6 graduate-level courses
1 year 4 months
10 - 14 hours per week
Discounted price: $2,964.60
Pre-discounted price: $3,294USD
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Courses in this program
MITx's Finance MicroMasters® Program
- Foundations of Modern Finance I
- Foundations of Modern Finance II
- Financial Accounting
- Mathematical Methods for Quantitative Finance
- Derivatives Markets: Advanced Modeling and Strategies
- Comprehensive Final Exam in Finance
- Certificate & Credit Pathways
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Program endorsements
Goldman Sachs is always seeking candidates with the right balance of foundational financial knowledge and leading edge quantitative expertise. Completing the MITx MicroMasters®️ Program in Finance indicates a level of skill and commitment that we look for when hiring or promoting finance professionals.
Armen Avanessians , head of Quantitative Investment Group
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