Build business skills from MIT’s #1 undergrad program
By Katherine Ouellette
What if you could build up your business skills from MIT’s top-ranked undergraduate program without ever applying to the Institute? With MIT Learn, you can access thousands of online business courses and resources from the U.S. News and World Report’s #1 business program for 2025–26. Accelerate your growth on MIT Learn, which was developed by MIT Open Learning, with these recommendations for business, engineering, and computer science.
Business analytics
- The Analytics Edge
- Optimization Methods in Business Analytics
- Data, Models, and Decisions
- Risk and Decision Analysis
Entrepreneurship
- You Can Innovate
- Bootstrapping for Entrepreneurs
- Innovation Teams
- Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans
- Business and Impact Planning for Social Enterprises
- Negotiating and Applying Influence and Power
- Leading Teams
- Product and Service Creation in the Internet Age
Finance
- Fintech: Shaping the Financial World
- Foundations of Modern Finance I
- Just Money: Banking as if Society Matters
- Adaptive Markets: Financial Market Dynamics and Human Behavior
- MITx MicroMasters in Finance
Management information systems
- Architecture and Systems Engineering: Models and Methods to Manage Complex Systems
- Architecture of Complex Systems
- System Thinking
- Quantitative Methods in Systems Engineering
- Global Health Informatics to Improve Quality of Care
Production/operations management
- Professional Certificate in Advanced Project Management
- Project Management: Leading Organizations to Success
- Product and Service Creation in the Internet Age
- Understanding Organizational Strategy and Capabilities
Quantitative analysis
- Mathematical Methods for Quantitative Finance
- Adaptive Markets: Financial Market Dynamics and Human Behavior
- Data Analysis for Social Scientists
- Quantitative Methods in Systems Engineering
Supply chain management/logistics
- Supply Chain Fundamentals
- Supply Chain Technology and Systems
- Supply Chain Management: Leading with AI and Digital Transformation
- MITx MicroMasters in Supply Chain Management
Adapted from an MIT News story.
These courses and materials are available through MIT OpenCourseWare, MITx, MITx MicroMasters, and MIT xPROⓇ, 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 high-quality massive open online courses adapted from the MIT classroom for learners worldwide. MicroMasters Programs are graduate-level digital credentials from MIT that help learners accelerate their careers and Master’s degrees. xPROⓇ provides professional development opportunities to a global audience via online courses and blended programs.
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