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

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MicroMasters® Program inFinance
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What you will learn

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

  • Expert instruction
    6 graduate-level courses
  • 1 year 4 months
    10 - 14 hours per week
  • Discounted price:$2,964.60 Original price:$3,294.00 USD
    For the full program experience

Courses in this program

MITx's Finance MicroMasters® Program

Meet your instructors
from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MITx)

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

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

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jiang Wang
Jiang Wang

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

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Egor Matveyev
Egor Matveyev

Executive Director of MicroMasters Program in Finance

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Deborah J. Lucas
Deborah J. Lucas

Sloan Distinguished Professor of Finance

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Paul F. Mende
Paul F. Mende

Senior Lecturer in the Finance Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

John Core
John Core

Nanyang Technological University Professor and a Professor of Accounting, Sloan School of Management

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Program endorsements

Goldman Sachs

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 Original price:$3,294.00 USD

6 courses in 1 year 4 months

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