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MSc - Master of Science
Bunhill Row
Full Time
OCT-26
1 Year
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MSc - Master of Science
Bunhill Row
Full Time
OCT-26
1 Year
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This MSc is for graduates with strong quantitative skills who wish to enter or are at the early stages of the actuarial profession. You’ll thrive here if you are ambitious, numerically confident, and motivated to apply mathematical, probabilistic, and modelling techniques to solve complex business problems. Typical career ambitions include qualifying as an actuary, or working in insurance, pensions, finance, investment, risk management, or consultancy. You’ll join a diverse peer group of aspiring actuaries and benefit from teaching informed by the latest industry practice. Career impact The MSc Actuarial Science has an outstanding reputation for producing highly employable graduates. Many alumni join leading employers such as Willis Towers Watson, Deloitte, Aviva, Prudential, and PwC, moving quickly into trainee actuary roles. Others pursue opportunities in actuarial analytics, risk management, investment, but also banking. As the first UK master’s to offer exemptions from the professional exams of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in the UK, the MSc provides a proven pathway to chartered status. Alumni progress into senior roles worldwide, shaping the future of life and general insurance, pensions, finance, and risk management.
A UK upper second class degree or above, or the equivalent from an overseas institution, in a highly quantitative programme such as finance, economics, statistics, mathematics, physics, engineering, finance, economics or computer science. Work experience is not a requirement for this course.
Students living in
Domestic
£16,800 per year
Students from Domestic
This is the fee you pay if the University is in the same country that you live in (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)
£26,500 per year
Students from EU
The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from somewhere in the EU.
£26,500 per year
Students from International
The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from a country outside the EU.
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