You don't need to pay tens of thousands of dollars to learn from the best business professors.
It's all online for free.
Our MyMBA Members have taken their career to the next level with these courses.
Here are 59 of the best courses you can start taking today.
Regardless of your career aspirations, business fundamentals will play an important role in your career.
From soft skills like negotiation and leadership to concepts like operations and business strategy, Coursera and other resources have high quality courses from top professors that break down these concepts.
We no longer have to pay high costs to learn these concepts. Anyone with an internet can access these courses and learn from some of the best professors in the world.
Many thanks to Laurie Pickard, founder of the “No Pay MBA” for being a leader in this space. Laurie wrote a great article for Class Central called, “How to Make An “MBA” Using Free Online Courses from Top 10 Business School.” I hope to build on this article with additional courses and subject areas that MyMBA Members have found valuable in the past.
Coursera courses are the first step in the MyMBA experience.
We take Coursera courses to learn business fundamentals from top business school professors.
In addition to the Coursera courses, MyMBA teaches Members how to advance their business career through creating and connecting online. Also, we provide the community, accountability, structure, and networking to have comprehensive business school experience.
Here are some of the best business courses on Coursera by topic.
Business School Foundations
Introduction to Marketing, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School of Business via Coursera
Introduction to Financial Accounting, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School of Business via Coursera
Introduction to Operations Management, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School of Business via Coursera
Introduction to Corporate Finance, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School of Business via Coursera
Foundations of Business Strategy, University of Virginia, Darden School of Business via Coursera
Fundamentals of Quantitative Modeling, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School of Business via Coursera
Statistics for International Business, University of London via Coursera
Leadership and Soft Skills
Leading People and Teams Specialization, University of Michigan via Coursera
4 Courses Included:
Inspiring and Motivating Individuals
Managing Talent
Influencing People
Leading Teams
Successful Negotiation: Essential Strategies and Skills, University of Michigan via Coursera
Strategic Organizational Design, MIT Sloan School of Management
Organizational Leadership Specialization, Northwestern via Coursera
4 Courses Included:
High Performance Collaboration: Leadership, Teamwork, and Negotiation
Leadership Communication for Maximum Impact: Storytelling
Leadership Through Social Influence
Leadership Through Marketing
Achieving Personal and Professional Success Specialization, University of Pennsylvania via Coursera
4 Courses Included:
Success
Improving Communication Skills
Leading the Life You Want
Influence
Data Analytics
Excel to MySQL: Analytic Techniques for Business Specialization, Duke University via Coursera
4 courses included:
Business Metrics for Data-Driven Companies
Mastering Data Analysis in Excel
Data Visualization and Communication with Tableau
Managing Big Data with MySQL
Business Analytics Specialization, University of Pennsylvania via Coursera
4 courses included:
Customer Analytics
Operations Analytics
People Analytics
Accounting Analytics
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship Specialization, University of Pennsylvania via Coursera
4 courses included:
Entrepreneurship 1: Developing the Opportunity
Entrepreneurship 2: Launching your Start-Up
Entrepreneurship 3: Growth Strategies
Entrepreneurship 4: Financing and Profitability
Finance
Financial Engineering and Risk Management Part I, Columbia University via Coursera
Financial Engineering and Risk Management Part II, Columbia University via Coursera
Modeling Risk and Realities, University of Pennsylvania via Coursera
Introduction to Corporate Finance, Columbia University via edX
The Free Cash Flow Method for Firm Valuation, Columbia University via edX
Risk & Return, Columbia University via edX
Financial Markets, Yale University via edX
Behavioral Finance, Duke University via Coursera
Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning in Finance Specialization, NYU via Coursera
4 Courses Included:
Guided Tour of Machine Learning in Finance
Fundamentals of Machine Learning in Finance
Reinforcement Learning in Finance
Overview of Advanced Methods of Reinforcement Learning in Finance
Sustainability
Principles of Sustainable Finance, Erasmus University Rotterdam via Coursera
The Age of Sustainable Development, Columbia University via Coursera
Green Business Strategy, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Fintech and Crypto
Fintech: Foundations & Applications of Financial Technology Specialization, Wharton via Coursera
4 Courses including:
FinTech: Foundations, Payments, and Regulations
Cryptocurrency and Blockchain: An Introduction to Digital Currencies
Lending, Crowdfunding, and Modern Investing
Application of AI, InsurTech, and Real Estate Technology
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies, Princeton University via Coursera
Advanced Courses
Python and Statistics for Financial Analysis, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning in Finance Specialization, NYU via Coursera
4 Courses Included:
Guided Tour of Machine Learning in Finance
Fundamentals of Machine Learning in Finance
Reinforcement Learning in Finance
Overview of Advanced Methods of Reinforcement Learning in Finance
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