The financial markets course offered by Yale University was the most enrolled business course in India in 2021, according to online learning platform Coursera. Around 85,000 learners subscribed to this course in the past year with an aim to understand the basics of financial markets and corporations, taught by Robert J Shiller, Sterling Professor of Economics, Yale University.
According to the The Future of Work After Covid-19 report by McKinsey Global Institute, finance skills, knowledge, and cognizance about the current market help learners increase their chances of getting hired by leading financial companies. The financial planning for young adults by the University of Illinois is another business course that made to the top ten list, indicating a growing interest in financial markets and investment advisory jobs.
Owing to the buzz over Artificial Intelligence (AI), many learners were keen to learn how to apply AI to solve business problems. The second-most enrolled course of 2021 — AI for everyone — taught by Andrew Ng, Founder of DeepLearning.AI, was previously the most popular course on the platform in the pandemic year 2020. Many plan on embarking on a career in project management. The foundations of project management course taught by current project managers at Google is the third-most popular course on the platform.