OppU Courses
Understand the basics of money management. Through financial literacy, you’ll develop a mindset crucial to impacting your financial well-being. You’ll learn how to take action to achieve your financial goals.
By developing a financial literacy mindset, you will be able to positively impact your financial life.
Start your financial education with free online courses.
Spending
Learning outcomes:
- Find a way to track expenses and income
- Identify spending habits
- Differentiate between spending wants and needs
Budgeting & Saving
Learning outcomes:
- Find money to allocate towards saving
- Develop a spending plan
- Set financial goals
- Improve spending and saving patterns
Credit
Learning outcomes:
- Analyze the costs and benefits of credit
- Know how lenders use credit reports and how credit scoring works
- Distinguish between different types of borrowing
- Find out how to improve your creditworthiness
- Understand how to use credit products properly
Debt & Loans
Learning outcomes:
- Identify the reasons for debt
- Recognize good and bad debt
- Develop a strategy to manage and reduce debt
- Understand the consequences of missed or late payments
FAQs
For the best learning experience, it’s recommended to take the OppU courses in order as follows: Spending, Budgeting & Saving, Credit, and Debt & Loans.
No prior financial literacy skills are needed to take the courses.
Courses are self-paced. On average, modules take 15 minutes to complete.
It is possible to take a single OppU course. For a deeper understanding of financial literacy, it’s recommended students take all four courses.
All OppU courses are 100% online. There is no in-person instruction.
There is no cost to take OppU courses.
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