Digital Investment
Certificate of Achievement Business · Merritt College · 2026-2027 Catalog
Program Description
The Digital Investment Certificate of Achievement prepares students with the knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary for obtaining work in the fields of digital investments that is applicable to the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. This certificate program will enable students to integrate foundational investment, trading and financial concepts with practical technical skills, which ensures they gain real-world applied knowledge to be truly job-ready. It aims to develop the student’s understanding of investments and provide a framework for students to think about concepts such as digital currency, blockchain, stock market, investments, and investment portfolio construction. Students will be assessed throughout the courses through exercises on the topics.
This program can be completed within one year, culminating in a Certificate of Achievement.
Career Opportunities
Completion of this certificate will provide students with the knowledge they need to work in an entry-level position at financial institutions and digital currency and blockchain companies which do not need licenses, such as client services, account management, compliance, and business operations, market analyst, researcher, and more. More information is in the LMI documents.
Learning Outcome(s)
- Demonstrate career acceptance preparation by applying industry standard concepts in investing in both stocks and cryptocurrency markets tools and technologies such as: Tradingview, Zivolve, finviz, and Yahoo finance.
- Exhibits career readiness by building a investment portfolios consist of stocks and crtptocurrencies using core fundamnetals,news analysis, sentiment analysis technical analysis, risk management and monitoring, as well as applying stock and crypto currency picking research skillsets