Macquarie University - North Ryde
Diverse opportunities are available for actuaries. With high-level analytical and problem-solving skills, actuaries are in demand in the traditional areas of finance and insurance, as well as in areas such as health, education, energy and environment, public infrastructure and genetics.
Macquarie’s Bachelor of Actuarial Studies with Professional Practice (Honours), which is built around the competitive Actuarial Studies Co-op program, offers you the opportunity to alternate between classroom studies and workplace experience in the form of three vocational placements of three to six months each. This will allow you to develop your professional skills, including communication, creativity, ethical practice and entrepreneurial expertise. You’ll have opportunities to build business acumen and to embrace emerging technologies. You’ll develop networks across a number of professional settings, and you’ll use your practical experiences in the classroom to further enhance your studies.
Contingent payments, ethical practice, insurance mathematics, mathematics of finance, probability, professional standards and practices, project management, statistics.
Actuary; claims adjuster, examiner or investigator; entrepreneur; fund manager; insurance analyst; life, health or general insurance specialist; pricing or marketing actuary; risk analyst; superannuation consultant; underwriter.
The ATAR and Selection Rank profile is not available for this course.
Please refer to the Macquarie University website for admission criteria information.
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