Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 9 months-1 year, full-time
This programme is for you if you want to kick-start your actuarial career and gain the skills to apply data analytics to solve real business problems.
Whether you have yet to start the actuarial professional exams, or you have already passed some of the Core Principles subjects you will be able to choose a route that maximises your potential exemptions from the IFoA exams. In some cases you will be able to finish with all the exams needed to become a fully-qualified actuary as an Associate member of the IFoA (Qualification as an Associate requires two years' work experience qualifying for PPD, successfully completing the online Professional Skills Course, and successfully completing the online CB3 course and assessment.)
At least a 2:1 in a relevant subject (Mathematics, Statistics, Sciences, Economics). We will consider graduates from other subjects on an individual basis - students will need to demonstrate their ability in mathematics is at an appropriate level if do not have at least a B at A-level.
You will be well-placed to work in the worlds of insurance, pensions, healthcare, banking, business management and risk assessment. You will be equipped with mathematical and statistical knowledge and problem-solving skills to help businesses and institutions evaluate the long-term financial implications of the decisions they make.
We aim to develop graduates who:
are comfortable with data and manipulating it
have great team working skills
can communicate persuasively in speech and writing
know why they are in an organisation and what they can contribute
Core module:
Fundamentals of Data Science
Option modules
Choose three option modules from:
Actuarial Modelling 1 (CM1)
Markov Processes (CS2)
Statistical Distributions and Inference (CS1)
Financial Engineering for Actuaries (CM2)
Business Microeconomics (CB2)
Actuarial Professional Skills and Employability
Operational Research
Fundamentals of GIS
Plus four option modules from:
Business Finance (CB1)
Actuarial Modelling 2 (CM1)
Survival Models (CS2)
Statistical Data Analysis (CS1)
Liability Modelling (CM2)
Business Macroeconomics (CB2)
Generalised Linear Models
Introduction to Functional Data Analysis
Data Mining and Neural Networks
Actuarial Practice Workshop*
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