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Accelerate your finance career. Fast-track your master’s degree in finance.

MicroMasters® Program in
Finance
MITx

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.
Expert instruction
6 graduate-level courses
Instructor-led
Assignments and exams have specific due dates
1 year 4 months
10 - 14 hours per week
Discounted price: $2,964.60
Pre-discounted price: $3,294USD
For the full program experience

Courses in this program

  1. MITx's Finance MicroMasters® Program

Meet your instructors
from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MITx)

Leonid Kogan
Jiang Wang
Deborah J. Lucas
John Core
Paul F. Mende
Egor Matveyev

Experts from MITx committed to teaching online learning

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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Discounted price: $2,964.60
Pre-discounted price: $3,294USD
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