Actuarial Science with a Year in Industry - BSc (Hons)

University of Kent

Bachelor's degree

In Canterbury

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Canterbury

  • Duration

    4 Years

  • Credits

    180

Actuaries evaluate and manage financial risks, particularly in the financial services industry. They form a small yet well-respected, influential and relatively well-paid profession. If you are good at mathematics and you are curious about financial matters, you should enjoy studying actuarial science.

Our degree gives you the opportunity to gain exemptions from eight of the professional examinations set by the UK actuarial profession, and is one of the few programmes to achieve full accreditation from the profession. Once you qualify, employment prospects are good, and students from this course have also gone on to successful careers in other areas such as accountancy, banking or operational research. The core actuarial modules are taught by professionally qualified actuaries with many years’ industry experience.

This course offers a year in industry and we run the Invicta Actuarial Society, which provides good links with industry. Our School is friendly and we make a point of getting to know our students on a one-to-one basis.

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Location

Start date

Canterbury (Kent)
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Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • Actuarial Science
  • Statistics
  • Mathematics
  • Probability
  • Financial Risk

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Various Lecturers

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World-renowned researchers and teachers

Course programme

The following modules are indicative of those offered on this programme. This listing is based on the current curriculum and may change year to year in response to new curriculum developments and innovation. Most programmes will require you to study a combination of compulsory and optional modules. You may also have the option to take ‘wild’ modules from other programmes offered by the University in order that you may customise your programme and explore other subject areas of interest to you or that may further enhance your employability.

Stage 1

Possible modules may include:

MA306 - Statistics (15 credits)

MA309 - Business Economics (15 credits)

MA315 - Financial Mathematics (30 credits)

MA347 - Linear Mathematics (15 credits)

MA348 - Mathematical Methods 1 (15 credits)

MA349 - Mathematical Methods 2 (15 credits)

MA351 - Probability (15 credits)


Stage 2

Possible modules may include:

MA501 - Statistics for Insurance (15 credits)

MA516 - Contingencies 1 (15 credits)

MA527 - Corporate Finance for Actuaries (15 credits)

MA528 - Financial Reports and their Analysis (15 credits)

MA529 - Probability and Statistics for Actuarial Science 2 (15 credits)

MA552 - Analysis (15 credits)

MA553 - Linear Algebra (15 credits)

MA639 - Time Series Modelling and Simulation (15 credits)


Year in industry

Students on this course spend a year working in industry between Stages 2 and 3. We can offer help and advice in finding a placement. This greatly enhances your CV and gives you the opportunity to put your academic skills into practice. It also gives you an idea of your career options. Recent placements have included IBM, management consultancies, government departments, actuarial firms and banks.

Possible modules may include:


Stage 3

Possible modules may include:

MA636 - Stochastic Processes (15 credits)

MA533 - Contingencies 2 (15 credits)

MA535 - Portfolio Theory and Asset Pricing Models (15 credits)

MA537 - Mathematics of Financial Derivatives (15 credits)

MA539 - Financial Modelling (15 credits)

MA525 - Survival Models (15 credits)

MA509 - Actuarial Practice (30 credits)

Additional information

https://www.kent.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/6/actuarial-science-with-a-year-in-industry#!overview

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Actuarial Science with a Year in Industry - BSc (Hons)

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