Mergers and acquisitions courses can help you learn valuation techniques, negotiation strategies, financial modeling, and due diligence processes. You can build skills in assessing market conditions, structuring deals, and understanding regulatory implications. Many courses introduce tools like Excel for financial analysis and software for project management, that support tracking progress and ensuring compliance throughout the acquisition process.

University of Pennsylvania
Skills you'll gain: Data-Driven Decision-Making, Forecasting, Financial Modeling, Financial Statements, Decision Making, Capital Budgeting, Financial Analysis, Return On Investment, Cash Flows, New Business Development, Risk Analysis, Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Spreadsheet Software
Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

University of California, Davis
Skills you'll gain: Growth Mindedness, Willingness To Learn, Lifelong Learning, Positivity, Professional Development, Persistence, Innovation, Organizational Change, Adaptability, Cognitive flexibility, Resilience, Personal Development, Leadership Development, Self-Awareness, Growth Strategies, Collaboration
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: LangGraph, Agentic Workflows, AI Orchestration, AI Workflows, Generative AI Agents, Agentic systems, LangChain, LLM Application, Responsible AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), Software Development, Python Programming, Data Science
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Cloud Hosting, HTML and CSS, Web Design and Development, GitHub, Web Servers, Web Content, Web Design
Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

Coursera
Skills you'll gain: HubSpot CRM, Customer Relationship Management, Customer Data Management, Email Marketing, Marketing Materials, Business Software, Sales Development, Customer Communications Management, Sales Pipelines, Dashboard, Data Management, Customer Service, Marketing, Sales Operations, Team Oriented
Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours
University of Michigan
Skills you'll gain: JSON, jQuery, Javascript and jQuery, Ajax, Debugging, Event-Driven Programming, Javascript, PHP (Scripting Language), Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Data Import/Export, Web Applications
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST)
Skills you'll gain: electromagnetics, Electrical Engineering, Electrical Systems, Materials science, Physics, Applied Mathematics, Differential Equations
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

DeepLearning.AI
Skills you'll gain: Natural Language Processing, Transfer Learning, Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), PyTorch (Machine Learning Library), Applied Machine Learning, Keras (Neural Network Library), Embeddings, Model Evaluation
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Skills you'll gain: Corporate Tax, Tax Compliance, Depreciation, Income Tax, Tax Management, Liquidation, Property Accounting, Tax Preparation, Partnership Accounting, Corporate Accounting, Tax Planning, Tax Returns, Tax, Tax Laws, Fixed Asset, Real Estate Transactions, Capital Expenditure, Mergers & Acquisitions, Cost Benefit Analysis, Revenue Recognition
Build toward a degree
Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Michigan State University
Skills you'll gain: Music Theory, Music, Musical Composition, Classical Music
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

UNSW Sydney (The University of New South Wales)
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop, PySpark, Extract, Transform, Load, Apache Hive, Big Data, Machine Learning, Applied Machine Learning, Generative AI, Machine Learning Algorithms, IBM Cloud, Data Pipelines, Model Evaluation, Kubernetes, Supervised Learning, Docker (Software), Scalability, Graph Theory, Jupyter, MongoDB
Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months