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Maths degree help !!

If you do a maths degree.. can you become an actuary?? If yes.. what additional qualifications or steps do you need to take to become an actuary?

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There is an additional actuarial qualification. I did some work experience and asked some of the people who worked at the actuarial firm what degrees they did. It seems that maths is the most prominent degree, although they had someone who had done engineering and someone who had done the actuarial degree itself.

The main way that it seems to work is that there is a financial module you can take as an undergraduate, a financial accounting one (more info here http://www.actuaries.org.uk/students/qualifications). If you have the CT1 financial module and have completed your maths degree it makes it easier to find work in an actuarial firm.

At the firm itself you will be given time off (say every friday) in which you can complete the remainder of the actuarial qualification whilst working part-time for the company. The qualification takes about 3 years to complete and the examinations are fairly intense from what I've been told, so be prepared to work after uni.