Question: Are there any free online certificate courses available to NYU Shanghai students, especially in finance and data science, that I can take to enhance my skills?
Answer
Several library-subscribed databases and resources can provide online training and certificates when you finish the required courses/modules.
- You can watch all the online courses and videos for free.
- Three categories: Business, Technology, and Creative, you can browse all the content to see which one you like to learn more about. You can also use "AI coaching" to ask questions, and it can recommend some courses.
- You can connect it with your LinkedIn profile. When you finish one course, you can add the certificate to your profile.
- Course examples:
- Data Science Foundations: Fundamentals (Beginner, 5 hrs 24 mins)
- Excel: Financial Functions in Depth (Intermediate, 2 hrs 33 mins)
- Excel and PowerPoint: Creating High-Impact Financial Presentations (Intermediate, 2 hrs 6 mins)
- Getting Started with Python for Finance (Beginner, 1 hr 39 mins)
- Reading Corporate Financial Statements (Intermediate, 1 hr 8 mins)
- Starting Your Career as a Financial Analyst (General, 44 mins)
- Using Data in Financial Analysis (Intermediate, 1 hr 44 mins)
Bloomberg Certification:
- It can provide three certificates for NYU students for free: Finance Fundamentals, Market Concepts, and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)
- On the Web: Navigate to the Bloomberg for Education web portal and sign up with your @nyu.edu email address to enroll (if you have not done so already).
- At the Terminal:
- Run the function BCER<GO> by entering BCER into the command line and hitting "enter".
- Plug your headphones into the back of the Bloomberg keyboard.
- Modules for each certificate:
- Finance Fundamentals
- The Purpose of Investing (1.5 hrs)
- Types of Investment (1.5 hrs)
- Risk and Reward (1.5 hrs)
- Portfolio Management (1.5 hrs)
- Market Concepts
- Getting Started on the Terminal (2 hrs)
- Economic Indicators (1 hr)
- Currencies (1 hr)
- Fixed Income (3 hrs)
- Equities (3 hrs)
- Portfolio Management (2 hrs)
- Stock Options (2 hrs)
- Commodities (2 hrs)
- Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)
- Introduction to ESG & Sustainable Finance (1 hr)
- Researching & Adopting ESG (1 hr)
- Negative Exclusionary Screening and Positive Screening (1 hr)
- ESG Integration - Fixed Income (1 hr)
- ESG Integration - Equities (1 hr)
- Corporate Governance & Shareholder Activism (1 hr)
- Reporting Sustainability Activities (1 hr)
- Finance Fundamentals
- Individual account creation is required before you can log in. Account requests require a mandatory 7-10 business day processing period.
- Modules for each certificate:
- LSEG Workspace Certification
- Getting Started
- News
- Charting
- Company Analysis
- Industry Analysis
- Data Modelling
- LSEG Finance Essentials Certification
- Introduction to LSEG Workspace
- Capital Markets Introduction
- Economics
- Capital Markets Overview
- Foreign Exchange
- Fixed Income
- Equities
- Excel and Codebook
- Datastream Certification
- Getting Started
- Chart Settings
- Chart Annotations
- Functions & Expressions
- LSEG Workspace Certification
Answered By: Henry Huang
Last Updated: Jun 10, 2025Views:
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