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Online Undergraduate Certificate in Financial Analytics

Colorado State University Global’s 18-credit undergraduate certificate in financial analytics provides students with advanced skills in AI, data analytics, and financial modeling. It can be completed in as few as six months and is stackable toward a bachelor’s degree.

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Financial Analytics: Online Undergraduate Certificate

Our undergraduate certificate in financial analytics teaches you how to interpret financial data, spot trends, and make intelligent decisions—all without needing a four-year degree. Gain hands-on experience analyzing financial statements, forecasting market behaviors, and using AI in real-world projects.

This program focuses on the skills finance professionals rely on every day. In this program, you will:

Analyze financial data to identify patterns and trends.
Use AI and machine learning to make financial predictions.
Create data-driven insights to support strategic decision-making.

Earn this certificate to open doors to career opportunities in banking, investment, and business management.

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FIN440 - Financial Strategy and Forecasting

Course Description

This course is designed to provide students with the business acumen needed to determine budget goals, use financial tools to create forecasts, and analyze factors contributing to budget and forecast variances. Using a case study approach, students will analyze and present financial variances and translate financial data to inform operational decision making.

Credit Hours: 3

MIS380 - Data Visualization I

Course Description

This course will introduce students to best practices in data visualization. Effective design, choice of chart type, effective use of color, how to explore data visually, how to build data dashboards, and how to explain concepts and results visually in a compelling way with data will be covered.

Credit Hours: 3

FIN400 - Analyzing Financial Statements

Course Description

This course introduces the study of accounting principles to give students an understanding of the theory and logic that underlie basic accounting procedures and practices. It then focuses on reading, interpreting, and analyzing financial statements. Major topics include the underlying framework of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and comparison with the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), the accounting cycle, preparation of the four principal financial statements, and financial statements analysis as well as ratio analysis for strategic planning and decision making.

Credit Hours: 3

MIS400 - Statistics for Business Analytics

Course Description

This course will introduce students to the concepts and principles of using statistics for data analysis and decision-making. This course will cover definitions and approaches in understanding data analytics and the role that statistical analysis plays in converting data into useful information. This course will prepare non-data analytics students in understanding how to build models and use statistics for business decision-making.

Credit Hours: 3

MIS405 - Data Exploration and Literacy

Course Description

In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of organizing, cleaning, and transforming data. You will build, validate, and interpret models based on machine learning algorithms. You will also use tools to help you design, prepare, and deliver data stories based on effective visualizations.

Credit Hours: 3

FIN310 - Financial Analytics and Modeling

Course Description

In this course, students apply the methodologies, techniques, and tools most commonly used in the analysis of financial data and creation of financial models. Drawing on methods of research from the fields of statistics, operations research, and information systems, students will use industry tools for visualization, inference, forecasting, and business optimization. The emphasis is on exposing the student to the techniques and software tools that are used in the industry to make informed financial decisions.

Credit Hours: 3

Affordable Tuition

As a not-for-profit public university, our goal at CSU Global is to make your online tuition cost as affordable as possible. We offer low-cost online degree tuition rates without taking anything away from the quality of the education you receive. We also lock in that low tuition rate with our tuition guarantee, and we provide additional discounted tuition rates for members of the armed forces and employees of our corporate affiliate partners.

Learn more about CSU Global tuition rates, and explore financial aid options available that can help cover the cost of your education.

Career Outlook and Outcomes

Upon completing the undergraduate certificate in financial analytics, you can pursue careers or advance in roles like data scientist, financial analyst, finance manager, or risk manager, applying your newly gained skills to various financial and data-driven positions. This certificate is also a stackable credential, so if you decide to pursue a CSU Global bachelor’s degree, the credits you’ve earned from this program can count toward your degree requirements.

Why You Should Earn Your Online Undergraduate Certificate

In today’s evolving and unpredictable economy, stackable credentials are an important tool you can utilize immediately, while also building credits toward a full degree. With an undergraduate certificate from CSU Global, you prove proficiency in a specific subject with your stand-alone, transcribable, nationally recognized credentials. Get promoted, switch industries, or work toward a full degree. And with our Tuition Guarantee, your affordable tuition rate won’t increase over time. Now is the time to get the career respect you deserve by increasing your market competitiveness.

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