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The Complete Investment Banking Course 2026 (Udemy.com)

The #1 Course to Land a Job in Investment Banking. IPOs, Bonds, M&A, Trading, LBOs, Valuation: Everything included!

4.6
44,056 reviews

Created by: 365 Careers

Last updated January 2026

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Based on the ratings of 44,056 students, a sample of their written reviews and the syllabus, as the course stood in January 2026. No course pays to be reviewed.

365 Careers built this as a broad survey of investment banking, followed by hands-on valuation work. The first stretch covers equity and debt capital markets, M&A, restructuring, trading and asset management in short lectures. The back half moves into Excel: a Tesla DCF, a Volkswagen multiples comparison and an LBO model. It runs about 13.5 hours across 210 lectures, and the requirements say no experience is needed.

Reviewers mostly praise how clearly things are explained. Clear explanations, simple language and good visuals come up again and again, including from people with legal or economics backgrounds who were new to finance. Complaints are small. One reviewer with strong Excel skills found the spreadsheet walkthroughs too detailed and wanted more on the financial logic. Another said video bugs made them miss topics, and one said it did not feel explained by a human. Most of the 44,056 ratings are four or five stars.

The course has 201,154 students and was last updated in January 2026, so it is current. It works best as a first pass that gives you the vocabulary and a few finished models. The interview preparation section is a single lecture, so anyone recruiting for real should add a dedicated question bank. For beginners, it is a sensible and well-liked starting point.

Best forStudents and career changers who want the banking landscape plus Excel valuation practice, with no finance background.
Skip it ifYou already build models in Excel and want deep, interview-grade drilling on valuation technicalities.

Pros

  • Reviewers repeatedly call the explanations clear and the visuals helpful, even for newcomers to finance
  • Covers IPOs, bonds, loan syndication, securitization and M&A before any modeling starts
  • Builds a Tesla DCF, a Volkswagen multiples case and a full LBO model step by step in Excel
  • Rated 4.6 across 44,056 reviews, with about 23,300 of them five stars

Cons

  • Excel walkthroughs run long and can bury the finance logic for people who already know Excel
  • Interview preparation is a single lecture, which is thin for anyone recruiting seriously
  • One reviewer reported video bugs that made them miss topics
Clear explanations. Great visuals used to enable better understanding.
Vikram Nagala, a student

Listed as All Levels, but reviewers describe it as a good fit for beginners, and the requirements say no prior experience is needed.

Featured in our guide: The 10 Best Finance and Accounting Courses on Udemy in 2026

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What you will learn

  • Start a career in Investment Banking or Private Equity
  • Pass investment banking interviews
  • Build financial models from scratch (shown step-by-step)
  • Build valuation models – DCF, LBO and multiples
  • Have solid financial and business acumen
  • Take your career to the next level!
  • Tell the story of how investment banking services first appeared
  • Understand the difference between investment and commercial banking
  • Explain the mechanics of an Initial Public Offering
  • Understand how pricing is determined in an IPO
  • Draw an IPO timetable
  • Understand why companies go public
  • Explain the mechanics of a bond offering
  • Understand how pricing is determined in a bond offering
  • Draw a bond offering timetable
  • Understand why companies raise public debt
  • Explain loan syndication and who participates in the syndicate
  • Understand securitization and explain why banks use securitization
  • Learn why companies buy other companies
  • Identify successful M&A transactions
  • Explain the deal lifecycle
  • Tell the difference between Financial and Corporate buyers
  • Describe the different payment options in an M&A deal
  • Understand the essence of restructuring services
  • Learn about the different ways to restructure a company
  • Become familiar with trading and brokerage and the securities traded on Financial Markets
  • Understand asset management services
  • Be able to describe asset management vehicles and expected rates of return
  • Calculate a company’s cost of debt, cost of equity, and WACC
  • Perform LBO valuation
  • Understand the rationale behind Leveraged Buyout deals
  • Be able to tell who carries out LBO deals and why they can be very profitable
  • After this course, you will have the skills to start a successful career in Investment Banking and Corporate Finance

Course content

30 sections · 210 lectures · 14 hours of video 8 quizzes, 7 articles

  1. 1Welcome! Course Introduction 1 free preview2 lectures · 4 min
  2. 2The ascendance of investment banking services 1 free preview7 lectures · 1 quiz · 24 min
  3. 3The four main areas of investment banking activity 2 free previews4 lectures · 1 quiz · 21 min
  4. 4Strategies pursued by investment banks3 lectures · 10 min
  5. 5Capital markets – Equity capital markets 1 free preview14 lectures · 1 quiz · 49 min
  6. 6Capital Markets – Debt Capital Markets10 lectures · 1 quiz · 35 min
  7. 7Advisory services – Mergers and acquisitions 3 free previews10 lectures · 1 quiz · 35 min
  8. 8Advisory services – Restructuring3 lectures · 1 quiz · 10 min
  9. 9Trading and Brokerage4 lectures · 1 quiz · 12 min
  10. 10Asset management3 lectures · 1 quiz · 13 min

Who it is for

The instructor says it suits

  • Aspiring investment bankers
  • People who are ambitious and are interested in earning a seven-figure salary
  • Anyone who wants to learn about investment banking and company valuation

What you need before you start

  • Absolutely no experience is required. We will start with the basics and gradually build up your knowledge. Everything is in the course.
  • A willingness to learn and practice

How it compares

Against the other 376 rated Udemy courses in Finance & Accounting on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 68% of them
  • Reviews44,056#4 of 377 by number of reviews
  • Length13.5 hourslonger than 82% of them
  • Last updatedJanuary 2026more recently than 59% of them

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Course Description

** Updated for June 2026 **

The Complete Investment Banking Course 2026 is the most hands-on, interactive and dynamic investment banking course you will find online.

  • 64 pages of course notes

  • 12 course challenges  

  • 26 PDF Files  

  • 22 quiz questions   

  • 32 Excel files  

  • A complete glossary with key terms and phrases   

  • Real-world examples and case studies   

  • Interesting facts about the industry  

  • 2 valuation models built from scratch  

  • 13 hours of Full-HD video   

The course starts off by introducing you to the four main areas of investment banking – Capital Markets, Advisory, Trading and Brokerage, and Asset Management.

Then we continue by digging deeper into each line of business.   

You will learn the subtleties of Initial Public Offerings, Seasoned Equity Offerings, Private Placements, Bond Issuances, Loan Syndications, Securitizations, Mergers & Acquisitions, Restructurings, Trading Instruments, Asset Management Vehicles and more.  

This encompasses virtually all topics likely to be discussed in an investment banking interview.

However, the best part is that you will learn different valuation techniques like the ones used by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and J.P. Morgan. We will show you how to carry out a Discounted Cash Flow valuation, a multiples valuation, and an LBO valuation. You will learn how to estimate a company’s cost of capital and future cash flows. Don’t worry if these sound unfamiliar right now; everything is shown in the course - step-by-step - with no steps skipped.    

This is a one-stop-shop, providing everything you need to land a job on Wall Street.   

What makes this course different from the rest of the Finance courses out there?   

  • High quality of production: Full-HD video and animations (This isn’t a collection of boring lectures!)

  • Knowledgeable instructor (3 million students on Udemy; worked in M&A)

  • Complete training: We will cover all major topics and skills you need to land a job in investment banking

  • Extensive case studies: To help you reinforce everything you’ve learned

  • An abundance of materials: PDF & Excel files, infographics, course notes; you name it! Everything is inside!

  • Excellent support: If you don’t understand a concept or you simply want to drop us a line, you’ll receive an answer within 1 business day

  • Dynamic: We don’t want to waste your time! The instructor keeps up a very good pace throughout the whole course

  • Bonus prizes: Upon completion of 50% and then 100% of the course, you will receive two bonus gifts  

Why should you consider a career as an Investment Banker?  

  1. Salary. Investment Bankers are some of the best paid professionals in our society

  2. Promotions. Investment Bankers acquire valuable technical skills, which makes them the leading candidates for senior roles in industrial companies and Private Equity firms

  3. Growth. This isn’t a boring job. Every day you will face different challenges that will test your existing skills

Please don’t forget that the course comes with Udemy’s 30-day unconditional money-back-in-full guarantee. And why not give such a guarantee, when we are convinced that the course will provide a ton of value for you?

Just go ahead and subscribe to this course! If you don't acquire these skills now, you will miss an opportunity to separate yourself from the others. Don't risk your future success! Let's start learning together now!
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Instructor Details

365 Careers

365 Careers is the #1 best-selling provider of business, finance, data science and AI courses on Udemy. The company’s courses have been taken by more than 4,000,000 students in 210 countries. People working at world-class firms like Apple, PayPal, and Citibank have completed 365 Careers trainings.    

Currently, 365 focuses on the following topics on Udemy:    1) Finance – Finance fundamentals, Financial modeling in Excel, Valuation, Accounting, Capital budgeting, Financial statement analysis (FSA), Investment banking (IB), Leveraged buyout (LBO), Financial planning and analysis (FP&A), Corporate budgeting, applying Python for Finance, Tesla valuation case study, CFA, ACCA, and CPA

2) Data science – Statistics, Mathematics, Probability, SQL, Python programming, Python for Finance, Business Intelligence, R, Machine Learning, TensorFlow, Tableau, the integration of SQL and Tableau, the integration of SQL, Python, Tableau, Power BI, Credit Risk Modeling, and Credit Analytics, Data literacy, Product Management, Pandas, Numpy, Python Programming, Data Strategy

3) Entrepreneurship – Business Strategy, Management and HR Management, Marketing, Decision Making, Negotiation, and Persuasion, Tesla's Strategy and Marketing

4) Office productivity – Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Outlook

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Reviews

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By Svetlana Poshtanova Agapova on 8/24/2026

La parte teórica del curso me pareció muy buena y bien estructurada. Sin embargo, en la parte práctica se dedica mucho tiempo al uso de Excel. Como tengo conocimientos limitados de Investment pero un nivel avanzado de Excel, en ocasiones sentí que las explicaciones de Excel eran demasiado detalladas y hacían más difícil seguir el contenido financiero. Creo que sería más útil disponer de menos archivos por ejercicio, incorporando comentarios sobre la lógica y las fórmulas financieras utilizadas, más que sobre las funcionalidades de Excel. Esto ayudaría a mantener el foco en los conceptos de Investment.

By Irene E. Rodil on 7/9/2026

I had so many learnings, and really helped understand more of the banking terminologies, products and processes. I used my iPad and really convenient for me.

By Ravi Prakash on 6/29/2026

highly recommended to all finance people its worth spending time & money on this course thanks a lot I enjoyed studying it, I'm glad I found it :) :)

By Anonymized User on 6/3/2026

This course provided practical and useful knowledge about corporate finance, investment, and capital markets. I now have a better understanding of financial products, IPOs, M&A transactions, and portfolio management. The content was easy to follow and highly applicable to real-world business situations.

By Nokuthula Tania Kangetsambo on 5/18/2026

The course is an eye opening and insightful for me as l have a legal background. It is interesting to learn a totally different field and the course is enhancing my skills in investment banking and broadening my knowledge.

By Sathya Subramani on 4/28/2026

This course was a great match because of its focus on efficiency. It was a high-yield investment of my time that bridged the gap between academic theory and industry standards.

By Pragati Roy on 3/30/2026

Its good but I am not able to understand the forecast thing. How is he assuming a certain number for the forecast. In that case I can assume any number. To arrive at a certain forecast percentage is something I am not able to understand properly.

By Satish Reddy on 3/10/2026

yeah it is very good, but keep the narration a little bit slow. i know that we can pause the video but after a concept is dealt with it is better to give time to process it and go to the next chapter.

By Sandhya Umbare on 2/14/2026

its really nice course, its very usefull for me becuase last 2 years i worked in investment backing company and becuase of these my knowldge is gaining.

By Jose Matehus on 12/26/2025

Un curso muy completo, no es para principiantes, me encanto que unen todos los puntos y utiliza logica para las formulas, quizas si podria mostrar mas el tablero de formulas financieras del excel seria bueno saber, pero en general muy bueno y completo

By Guilherme Servidoni on 11/14/2020

This is a great course and useful for beginners. Particularly, I already had some knowledge on valuation models and this course proved itself useful nonetheless. I also knew a couple things about IB, but this gives you the "formal" ground. So if you're up to intermediate level with the concepts this is a good fit for you. If you're looking for a CFA course, what the heck are you doing here anyway?
Overall, great course!

By Srividhya V on 11/7/2020

Excellent course .The concepts are clearly explained with examples.one can get in-depth understanding in investments.

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The Complete Investment Banking Course 2026
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  • Video Duration: icon 13.5h
  • Price: $22.99
  • Provider: icon Udemy
  • Updated: icon January 2026
  • Level: All Levels All Levels
  • Language: icon English
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  • Lectures:210 in 30 sections
  • Practice:8 quizzes
  • Students:201,200
  • Subtitles:19 languages
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