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Financial Technology

Course Overview

Date / Time Location Credits Minimium Tuition*
9/2/25 - 12/12/25
Fr 2p.m. – 4:45p.m.		 McCormack M01-0409 3 $2657 (guest students)
Date
9/2/25 - 12/12/25
Time
Fr 2p.m. – 4:45p.m.
Location
McCormack M01-0409
Credits
3
Min. Tuition*
$2657 (guest students)

Description

This course is the first and foremost step of the A&F curriculum development in blockchain, cryptoeconomics, and FinTech related areas. The course is designed to prepare students with the knowledge for the future of finance and to provide them with hands-on experience applying various analytical tools to solve real-world problems. Some key topics of the course are: web scraping and textual analysis; cryptocurrency and blockchain; natural language processing; crowd funding and P2P lending; machine learning applications (topic analysis, decision trees, and neural networks); networks in finance; cloud computing; computer vision and image classification.

Guest registration opens August 18

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Course Details

Session

Regular Academic Session

Class Dates

9/2/2025 - 12/12/2025

Location

McCormack M01-0409

Enrolled / Capacity

15 / 35

Status

Closed

Instructor

Zaur Rzakhanov

Tuition*

$2657 (guest students)

* The tuition estimate is based on minimum, single-course cost to a new student who is a Massachusetts resident and not enrolled in a multi-course program. State residency, online/in person modality, and matriculation to a degree program may affect cost.

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