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Professional Certificate in Strategic Financial Management

Making impactful financial decisions in the present-day business world

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Volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (commonly known as VUCA) are some of the main factors impacting the business world today. Professionals should equip themselves with the tools they need to make impactful financial decisions in the 21st-century VUCA environment.

About the Certificate Program

Leveraging the University of Chicago’s excellence in analytics, behavioral economics, and finance, our ten-month Finance Certificate is designed to provide you with solid theoretical knowledge of cutting-edge financial topics and practical applications to solve real-world business challenges. This certificate includes the following courses:

The Psychology of Finance

In this course, you will gain a nuanced understanding of behavioral finance and apply this knowledge across decision-making scenarios.

Corporate Financial Strategy

This course focuses on assessing threats and opportunities and using these insights to create and implement sound financial strategies.

Decision-Making and Risk Management

Here, you will explore fundamental principles and practices in risk management from the corporate, market, and regulatory perspectives.

Fintech

The course guides you through the latest developments in financial technology, highlighting new customer-centric ways to do business.

Machine Learning for Finance

In this course, you learn how to use data to perform advanced financial analysis with algorithms and statistical techniques and tools.

Why enroll?

Advanced Customer Journey:

You will be guided by a Certificate Coordinator. You will also have unique opportunities to network and interact with your peers.

On-Campus Graduation:

Join your fellow participants on campus in Chicago at the end of the program, which will culminate in an in-person graduation ceremony with further networking opportunities.

Exclusive Benefits:

Become part of the global UChicago Professional Education community and receive select participant benefits upon completion of the program.

After completing the certificate program, you will be able to:

Share solid theoretical knowledge of critical finance-related topics
Provide a practical application of this knowledge in your work environment
Foster other soft skills like collaborative teamwork, critical thinking, problem solving, communication abilities, time management, multicultural awareness, remote working techniques, and development and management of international networking

Meet Your Instructors

George Dan, MBA

The Psychology of Finance Instructor

Sourav Ghosh, MSc

Vice President at an Investment Bank

Borislava Karageorgieva, CFA, MBA, PAHM

Senior Finance Professional

Lara Kattan, MPP

Data Science Educator and Curriculum Writer

Admission Process

Application Fee

Pay the (non-refundable) application fee and fill out the application form.

Interview

Schedule a call for an interview with our Admissions team.

Results

Our Admissions Committee will inform you of their final decision and if accepted, you will be able to make the tuition payment.

Participant Experiences

The course was enlightening, exceeded my expectations, and opened up a new area of knowledge that I know will make a big difference in my professional development. I especially want to congratulate and thank Andrés, our teaching assistant. His level of knowledge and, above all, his degree of commitment to the course is remarkable. His constant collaboration and willingness were a key part of the success of the program. Finally, I would like to thank the entire team. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

Nicté Serra

Participant in The Psychology of Finance

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