In today’s open-source, fast-changing digital marketplace, it’s real-world experience that will best prepare students of business and finance for the world that waits. Cloistered and theoretical learning won’t confer an advantage when they compete in the job market — early immersion into the markets through the Bloomberg Terminal will.
Building a Bloomberg Finance Lab helps your students build the skills needed for a career in finance, enhances your curriculum and better positions your university as a leader in the academic space.
Universities with a Bloomberg Finance Lab on campus are able to better integrate industry-leading data, research, news and analytics into their teaching curriculum, faculty research, CFA Institute Research Challenge and student managed investment funds.
“Bloomberg financial and real-time data at the fingertips of instructors in the classroom brings a conventional lecture to a totally different level and makes the connection between theory and practice for students crystal clear.” Hossein Kazemi, Stonehill College
To help faculty and administration successfully prepare and market to their audiences, Bloomberg offers a special Bloomberg Finance Lab designed exclusively for colleges and universities. Through the Bloomberg Terminal, educators and students can access cross-asset, real-time data and historical time series analysis in all markets including Equity, Fixed Income and FX.
We provide public and private company accounting data and corporate finance datasets, portfolio and risk analytics with historical back-testing, and peer-ranked, customizable investment simulations. Naturally Bloomberg supplements these with global economic data for macroeconomic analysis and our global M&A and IPO database, and all of this can be integrated into Microsoft Excel® and Word® with our powerful API. Our experienced team aids syllabus-integration of our technology with free consultations for our university-based clients.
For students the advantages of having access to Bloomberg in your coursework are clear. Today’s business and finance graduates must be both intellectually and technically savvy to succeed beyond the classroom. Complex concepts are best grasped through practical examples and immersion. Learn how to analyze financial markets, assess economic scenarios and interpret the key news developments that impact the global economy. Watch the interaction of world events and market behaviors in real time and acquire marketable skills that improve the odds of landing the job you want.
Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC) is an 8-hour self-paced e-learning course consisting of 4 modules – Economics, Currencies, Fixed Income and Equities. The curriculum is woven together from Bloomberg data, news, analytics and television.
More than 300 universities currently integrate Bloomberg into their curricula through BMC. Get foundational content with concrete learning outcomes supported by case studies and examples from the gold standard market data platform. Professors can reinforce teachings through over 100 questions with assessment reports, while students gain practical knowledge to prepare them for interviews and certificate of completion that adds value to their resumes.
BMC is available online for a student rate of $149 USD (professional rate of $249 USD). You can sign up for BMC online access here.
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