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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
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

  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

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