Finance: Investing & Market Insights
Step into the world of finance and investing, where you'll learn how to evaluate companies, understand financial markets, and make savvy investment choices. This course breaks down essential financial concepts like risk vs. reward, valuation techniques, and market analysis, equipping you with the skills to succeed in finance. You'll hear from experts in business and finance, even value a real company and make an investment recommendation.
Program Dates
Multi-length sessions available throughout the year
Eligibility
For students ages 13 and up
Individual Course Fees
$1,795
Find Your Path to Financial Savvy
Finance Foundations: Exploring Markets & Money
Get to know financial markets, key instruments, and the basics of risk, return, and market structures.
IPO Power: Investment Banking & Valuation
Uncover the role of investment banks, IPO mechanics, and core valuation concepts for bonds and stocks.
Inside the Numbers: Financial Statements 101
Learn how to analyze financial statements, access essential data, and identify what drives company success.
Valuing Companies: The DCF Method
Dive into cash flow analysis, debt considerations, and learn how to estimate a company’s intrinsic value.
Discount Rates & Risk: Valuation Essentials
Explore discount rates, risk factors, and valuation methods to assess company value with confidence.
The Final Pitch: Valuation Project
Apply what you’ve learned in a final capstone project to evaluate a company and present your investment recommendation.
How You Will Benefit
- Gain practical knowledge in finance, including valuation, investment strategies, and analyzing financial statements—skills valuable for any career in business or finance.
- Understand real-world markets and how they operate, including the roles of banks, investors, and regulators.
- Master valuation techniques like Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) and relative valuation, empowering you to make informed investment decisions.
- Explore the roles available in investment banking, private equity, and venture capital, helping you understand possible career paths in the finance industry.
- Complete a Final Capstone Project to demonstrate what you’ve learned.
- Earn a Certificate of Completion from Dartmouth.
Three Learning Advantages Designed for You
Final Capstone Project
This course concludes with a final capstone project where you can:
- Analyze and value a company: Use DCF and other valuation methods to estimate the company’s “fair” value and assess if it’s overvalued, undervalued, or fairly valued.
- Develop a brief presentation with findings, valuation insights, and strategic recommendations for potential investors.
Mentoring
Gain support from an expert mentor who’ll help answer questions and enrich your experience. Here’s what to expect:
- Expertise in the field of finance.
- Encouragement and direction on all assignments.
- Inspiration, motivation and confidence to help you succeed.
- Brainstorming to help you prepare for your final capstone project.
Flexible Learning
- 100% online learning that works with your schedule.
- Enjoy flexible, engaging video lessons that you can watch whenever it’s convenient for you.
- Multiple courses can be taken to maximize your learning experience.
- 20 to 30 hours of total instruction and activities per course, including multimedia, simulations, and curated assignments for which you will receive guidance and support from mentors.
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Course Designed by Dartmouth Instructors
Patroklos Karantinos
Bridge Fellow Manager, Tuck School of Business
Karantinos received undergraduate and graduate degrees in finance while in Greece, as well as an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He has worked in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, higher education strategy, and in public sector consulting. He also teaches the popular Business Foundations course in the Dartmouth Summer Scholars Program.
How To Apply:
It’s easy. No transcripts or letters of recommendation are required. Just provide some basic information and tell us why you wish to take this program.
Note: Please submit all application materials in English.
Begin the guided application process. It should take only a few minutes of your time to answer the questions.
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Admissions
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Scholarships
We offer need-based scholarships for participating students who exhibit high potential and an inability to pay the full tuition.
- If you haven’t applied to the program, apply here. After submitting your application, click “Apply for a need-based scholarship” on the confirmation page to request a scholarship.
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