Business, Finance, & Fintech

Interested in pursuing a future in Business, Finance, & Fintech? Find resources, events, opportunities, and advice to confirm your interest and kickstart your career.

Explore a career path in Business, Finance, & Fintech

By infusing your interest in technical and quantitative pathways with a business perspective, you will see how you can shape the world through enterprise. The pathway of business, finance, and fintech brings together elements of management, behavioral science, finance, banking, analytics, and entrepreneurship. Whether you are looking to leverage data to highlight performance trends, analyze metrics to identify needs and improve business efficiency, or lead the next big endeavor, the resources and supports within this pathway will hopefully aid in your career journey.

EDUCATION

Depending on your career interests and goals within business, finance, or fintech, MIT’s Sloan School of Management offers several degree programs that allow learners to bring a business perspective to their technical and quantitative background. While undergraduate programs focus on areas of management, business analytics, or finance, master and doctoral programs incorporate an interdisciplinary approach by integrating design, engineering, and advanced data science concepts into the classroom and through real-world applications.

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Business

Careers in business focus on planning, organizing, and evaluating a wide variety of a company or organization’s functions in order to maximize its’ operations and efficiency. Depending on your interests, your career journey within Business can span across a variety of industries and sectors.

Explore sample job titles below:

  • Computer and Information Systems Manager
  • Compliance Manager
  • Management Analyst
  • Operations Research Analyst
  • Project Management Specialist
  • Regulatory Affairs Specialist
  • Supply Chain Manager
  • Sustainability Specialist
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Finance

A finance career requires an understanding of how financial and accounting markets operate and the ability to analyze large data sets. Students entering the finance field can expect to find opportunities spanning across various industries, sectors, and functions, including but not limited to financial advising, corporate finance, and investment management.

Explore sample job titles below:

  • Budget Analyst
  • Credit Analyst
  • Financial Manager
  • Financial Quantitative Analyst
  • Investment Analyst

 

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Fintech

Fintech is an emerging field that focuses on the automation and streamlining of financial services through the utilization of specialized software and application, as well as the development and use of crypto-currencies.

Explore sample job titles below:

  • Blockchain Engineer
  • Data Engineer
  • Data Product Manager
  • Data Scientist
  • Frontend Developer
  • UI/UX Product Designer

 

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