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Bachelor of Actuarial Studies

ACTS05

Faculty:
Faculty of Business and Economics
Department:
Department of Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies
Award:
Bachelor of Actuarial Studies (BActStud)
Study Mode:
Full-time
Attendance Mode:
Internal
Candidature Length:
Full-time: 3 years
Study Period Offerings:
Session 1 (March)
General requirements:
Minimum number of credit points for the degree 69
Minimum number of credit points at 200 level or above 39
Minimum number of credit points at 300 level or above 18
Completion of a designated People unit
Completion of a designated Planet unit
Completion of a designated PACE unit
Completion of other specific minimum requirements as set out below
Note:
Students must complete one designated People unit and one designated Planet unit. One of those units must be taken outside the Department administering the program of study which the student is admitted to, and the other unit must be taken outside the Faculty administering the program of study which the student is admitted to. Units which are already a required unit of the student's program of study will not satisfy the People unit requirement or Planet unit requirement.

In order to graduate students must ensure that they have satisfied all of the general requirements of the award: see the general requirements listed above.

Specific minimum requirements:

Credit points

100 level

Required
3
Techniques and Elements of Finance (3)
 
Required
3
Introduction to Actuarial Studies (3)
 
Required
3
Mathematics IB (Advanced) (3)
 
Required
3
Statistical Data Analysis (3)
 
Required
either
or
 
Mathematics IA (Advanced) (3)
 
3
Mathematics IA (3)
 

200 level

Required
3
Mathematics of Finance (3)
 
Required
3
Combinatorial Probability (3)
 
Required
3
Contingent Payments 1 (3)
 
Required
3
Statistics I (3)
 
Required
3
Probability (3)
 

300 level

Required
3
Actuarial Modelling (3)
C/P
Required
3
Survival Models (3)
 
Required
9cp from
9
ACST units at 300 level

Balance of credit points required:

 
 
24
Electives

TOTAL CREDIT POINTS REQUIRED FOR THIS PROGRAM

69
Note:
Units marked with a C are Capstone units.
 
Units marked with a P are PACE units.