Become financially savvy with free online courses from MIT
By Katherine Ouellette
Financial acumen is key in today’s fast-paced world and competitive job market. Understanding financial principles enhances your ability to make informed business decisions, contribute strategically to your organization’s success, and manage your money. Whether you’re in a field that intersects with finance or just looking to elevate your knowledge of financial concepts, explore MIT Open Learning’s free and low-cost online courses and resources available through MIT OpenCourseWare, MITx, and MITx MicroMasters.
Personal financial literacy
- AP® Microeconomics: Learn how individuals and businesses make the decisions that drive our economy.
- Finance Theory I: Discover the core theory of modern financial economics and financial management, with a focus on capital markets and investments.
- Financial Regulation: From the Global Financial Crisis to Fintech and the COVID Pandemic: Explore how regulations and their effectiveness are shaped by the interplay between the financial industry and its regulators.
- Just Money: Banking as if Society Mattered: Learn how banks can use capital as a tool to promote social and environmental well-being.
- Investments: Dive into financial theory and empirical evidence for making investment decisions.
Financial technologies
- FinTech: Shaping the World: Learn how new financial technologies are driving change in business models, products, applications, and user interfaces.
- The Analytics Edge: Discover the power of data and use analytics to provide an edge to your career and your life.
- Analytics of Finance: Examine the key quantitative methods of finance.
- Blockchain and Money: Explore blockchain technology’s potential to change the world of money and finance.
- Mathematical Methods for Quantitative Finance: Dive into the essential mathematical foundations for financial engineering and quantitative finance. (This course is part of the MITx MicroMasters Program in Finance.)
The psychology of finance
- Adaptive Markets: Financial Market Dynamics and Human Behavior: Discover a new way of thinking about financial markets, institutions, and innovation using concepts from evolutionary biology, cognitive neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.
- Finance and Society: Explore a multidimensional view of finance as an economic, political, cultural, intellectual, material, and technological phenomenon.
- Psychology and Economics: Learn how to incorporate insights from psychology and other social sciences into economics.
Financial industry
- Foundations of Modern Finance I: Explore a mathematically rigorous framework to understand financial markets delivered with data-driven insights from MIT professors. (This course is part of the MITx MicroMasters Program in Finance.)
- Foundations of Modern Finance II: Learn fundamental principles of modern finance, including valuation models, methods for risk analysis, derivative instruments, and investment management. (This course is part of the MITx MicroMasters Program in Finance.)
- Derivatives Markets: Advanced Modeling and Strategies: Obtain a sophisticated understanding of valuation methods for quantifying, hedging, and speculating on risk for major markets and instruments. (This course is part of the MITx MicroMasters Program in Finance.)
- Financial Accounting: Learn how to analyze financial statements and valuation models to assess corporate performance. (This course is part of the MITx MicroMasters Program in Finance.)
- Mathematical Methods for Quantitative Finance: Dive into the essential mathematical foundations for financial engineering and quantitative finance. (This course is part of the MITx MicroMasters Program in Finance.)
- Topics in Mathematics with Applications in Finance: Explore mathematical concepts and techniques used in the financial industry.
Finance for other industries
- Financial Accounting: Learn how to analyze financial statements and valuation models to assess corporate performance. (This course is part of the MITx MicroMasters Program in Finance.)
- Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship Finance: Dive into the basics of financial literacy, financial modeling, funding sources, raising capital, and valuation analysis.
- Healthcare Finance: Explore the role of finance in the healthcare industry, focusing on novel financing methods to facilitate drug discovery, clinical development, and greater patient access to high-cost therapies.
- Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans: Learn how to launch a new venture plan.
- Real Estate Finance and Investment: Discover the most fundamental concepts, principles, analytical methods, and tools useful for making investment and finance decisions regarding commercial real estate assets.
- The Science and Business of Biotechnology: Explore novel business and financing models for commercializing the latest scientific innovations in biotechnology.
Ready to take a deeper dive into the world of finance?
Meet the complex demands of today’s global finance markets with the MITx MicroMasters Program in Finance — five courses developed and delivered by MIT Sloan faculty. MITx MicroMasters can help you accelerate your career or fast-track your masters degree.
These course materials and resources are available through MIT OpenCourseWare, MITx, and MITx MicroMasters, which are part of MIT Open Learning. OpenCourseWare offers free, online, open educational resources from more than 2,500 courses that span the MIT undergraduate and graduate curriculum. MITx offers hundreds of high-quality massive open online courses adapted from the MIT classroom for learners worldwide. The MITx MicroMasters Programs provide an affordable, accelerated, and convenient path to a master’s degree. The credential itself is also valuable for professionals as they move through their careers.
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