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Actuarial science (finance) courses ?

What’s the best uni courses to enter into a career in actuarial science after high school. Also what masters would be best to do afterwords ?
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Have you done any research? What are you thoughts so far? Why actuarial rather than maths or MORSE?
Hey!

I'm Charlie, one of Lancaster University's student ambassadors on here. I'm currently in my 2nd year of a degree in Finance & Economics, basically 50% Accounting & Finance modules with 50% Economics modules.

From doing some research I have found that the most relevant degree Lancaster offers is Financial Mathematics. (here is the link to the BSc Hons degree, but Lancaster also offers MSci Hons and placement year options: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/financial-mathematics-bsc-hons-gn13/ )

If you have any questions about these courses or just student life at Lancaster in general please let me know!

Charlie
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Original post by Lancaster Student Ambassador
Hey!

I'm Charlie, one of Lancaster University's student ambassadors on here. I'm currently in my 2nd year of a degree in Finance & Economics, basically 50% Accounting & Finance modules with 50% Economics modules.

From doing some research I have found that the most relevant degree Lancaster offers is Financial Mathematics. (here is the link to the BSc Hons degree, but Lancaster also offers MSci Hons and placement year options: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/financial-mathematics-bsc-hons-gn13/ )

If you have any questions about these courses or just student life at Lancaster in general please let me know!

Charlie

I don't recommend doing this, since that course will only get 1 exemption (CT3), which is essentially nothing compared to say an Actuarial Science degree at Universities like Kent, Essex, Cass etc which get 8 (using the old specification here since the IFOA doesn't provide the new curriculum for Lancaster, but CT3 should cover CS1 I believe).


You can find all exemptions here https://www.actuaries.org.uk/studying/exam-exemptions/how-apply-exemption/university-courses-exemptions
Original post by Abdul6545688
What’s the best uni courses to enter into a career in actuarial science after high school. Also what masters would be best to do afterwords ?

Hi there!
Have you considered the University of Kent for actuarial science at all? :smile: Kent's school of Mathematics Statistics and Actuarial Science is highly regarded, especially for their Bsc Actuarial Science course.
I'll leave the link to the course page here.
Let me know if you have any questions about Kent at all, I'm in my final year at Kent and I'm an official rep for them on TSR so I'm happy to help where I can :biggrin:
Best of luck with your university search!

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