Bloomberg Courses & Certifications Online

Bloomberg for Education is a suite of educational tools and services offered by Bloomberg Inc. to help learners understand financial markets, analytics, and industry trends. It includes online courses, access to Bloomberg Terminal, and other resources designed to provide practical learning experiences.

Let us take a look at the available online learning resources at Bloomberg for Education 

1. Certificates

As of January 2025, Bloomberg for Education offers 3 certificate programs to help boost your knowledge and strengthen your job applications. These online certification courses provide a self-paced, interactive way to explore different areas of finance. Take a look.

a. Bloomberg Finance Fundamentals Certificate

The Bloomberg Finance Fundamentals (BFF) program is a self-paced and interactive course designed to introduce essential concepts in finance and investment. The course uses real-life examples and cases to present the perspectives of various finance professionals, helping learners understand money management and career opportunities in finance.

Course Takeaways

• Understand how money moves within an economy.
• Learn about investment strategies that help individuals and companies grow their funds and manage risks.
• Understand responsible investing and its benefits. 
• Explore finance career paths and identify tools and strategies to pursue them.

Course Modules

• The Purpose of Investing: Understand how economic structures and money flow support small business growth and public offerings.
• Types of Investment: Discover financial instruments for households and companies, risk types and mitigation strategies.
• Risk and Reward: Explore stock trading risks and rewards, and how stakeholders maintain financial system integrity.
• Portfolio Management: Learn how responsible portfolio management benefits individuals, businesses, and society.

b. Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC) Certificate

The Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC) is an online certificate program by Bloomberg for Education. It provides the learners with a self-paced, interactive learning experience, helping them understand the financial topics more clearly. 

Course Takeaways

• The program provides a general understanding of the financial markets.
• Covers more than 150 functions of the Bloomberg Terminal.
• The learners will earn a Certificate of Completion after successfully completing the program.

Course Curriculum

• Currencies: Learn the history and mechanisms of currency markets.
• Fixed Income: Understand the bond market complexities.
• Equities: Discover the nature of equity ownership and its appeal. 
• Terminal Basics: Learn the Bloomberg Terminal basics through simulations. 
• Commodities: Learn about the history and basics of the commodities market, particularly oil. 
• Equity Options: Learn the language and strategies of the equity options in the stock market.
• Portfolio Management: Understand the role of a portfolio manager and Bloomberg tools. 

c. Environmental Social Governance Certificate

The Bloomberg Environmental Social Governance (ESG) Certificate is a self-paced, interactive e-learning course focusing on implementing ESG strategies and preparing ESG reports for regulators. The course is presented through the perspective of a fictional buy-side asset management firm.

Course Takeaways

By completing the Environmental Social Governance course, learners will be able to:

• Understand current ESG trends and common investment strategies related to ESG.
• Analyze how asset managers incorporate ESG factors into their investment decision-making processes.
• Explain the impact of shareholder activism on corporate behavior.
• Gain practical experience with tasks at different stages of the investment process.

Course Curriculum

• Introduction to ESG and Sustainable Finance: Gain fundamental knowledge of sustainable finance and key ESG concepts.
• Researching and Adopting ESG: Explore how Worthing Capital Management integrates ESG into its investment processes.
• Negative Screening & Positive Screening: Learn about excluding non-investable sectors and positive screening through green bonds.
• ESG Integration - Fixed Income: Understand how investment managers incorporate ESG factors into fixed income analysis.
• ESG Integration - Equities: Discover the inclusion of ESG factors in the financial analysis of equity securities.
• Corporate Governance & Shareholder Activism: Examine tactics used by shareholders to influence company behavior through activism.
• Reporting Sustainability Activities: Learn how to report on ESG investment activities for EU funds effectively.

2. Continuous Learning 

Continuous Learning at Bloomberg for Education is aimed at helping learners gain new industry-specific skills and knowledge on an ongoing basis. It includes -

Videos

Bloomberg for Education offers short, interactive videos as a part of continuous learning. They cover key themes from Bloomberg and industry experts. Topics include:

• AI & Data Science
• ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance)
• Fintech
• Careers in Finance
• Geopolitics
• Islamic Finance
• Economics
• Equities
• Charting

Case Studies

Bloomberg Businessweek Case Studies are developed through a collaboration between Bloomberg for Education and Bloomberg Businessweek. These case studies, typically found in graduate-level courses, are adapted for undergraduate students studying introductory finance. The case studies are designed to align with popular finance textbooks and the Bloomberg Terminal. They focus on experiential learning.

Webinars

Webinars offer an opportunity to see how market professionals use the Bloomberg Terminal to analyze current events and find relevant information. Available webinar series include:

• Trading Challenge Resources
• Learn the Terminal
• In the Headlines
• Islamic Finance

3. Bloomberg Finance Labs

A Bloomberg Finance Lab is a dedicated space to provide students with hands-on experience using Bloomberg's financial data and analytics tools. These labs are equipped with Bloomberg Terminals, allowing students to use the same data and analytics products professionals in finance rely on in real time: market data, financial news, research, and analytical tools.

Besides supporting finance-focused courses, Bloomberg Finance Labs enriches the overall curriculum by supporting students from diverse departments in areas such as economics, business, and investment analysis.