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MSc/PGDip Actuarial Science
<span style="color:#0000FF">Mode of Study</span>Distance learning
<span style="color:#0000FF">Enrolment dates</span>Late April and Late September
<span style="color:#0000FF">Benefits</span>
A career as an Actuary is a highly rewarding one – both financially and intellectually. Actuaries are problem solvers, business analysts, consultants and financial risk assessors all rolled into one. Their skills are applied in the worlds of insurance, pensions, healthcare, banking, business management and risk assessment.
Actuaries use mathematical and statistical knowledge and problem solving skills to help businesses and institutions evaluate the long term financial implications of decisions that they make.
<span style="color:#0000FF">Why study at Leicester?</span>
The Actuarial Science programme at Leicester is the only distance learning course accredited by the Faculty and the Institute of Actuaries. By studying this course you will gain the first accredited qualification in the step towards becoming a fully accredited Fellow of the Faculty and the Institute of Actuaries.
The University enjoys links with the financial industry including Mercer Human Resource Consulting, NFU Mutual and Pearl Life, ensuring that the course has been developed with the needs of key employers in mind. This means that graduates of the course will be highly employable.
<span style="color:#0000FF">ACCREDITATION BY THE FACULTY AND THE INSTITUTE OF ACTUARIES</span>
The University enjoys strong links with the Faculty and the Institute of Actuaries and has developed the programme working closely with them. The Faculty and the Institute of Actuaries has accredited the programme. This means that if you perform sufficiently well within the examinations for the Postgraduate Diploma qualification, you will automatically be exempt from taking the profession’s current CT examinations 1-8 - the first eight exams towards qualifying as a fellow of the Faculty and the Institute of Actuaries.
<span style="color:#0000FF">Course Content</span>
Modules covered will include:
Statistics
Financial Mathematics
Financial Engineering
Risk
Actuarial Mathematics
Contingencies
Finance and Financial Reporting
Economics
<span style="color:#0000FF">Course Structure</span>
The first two modules in session 1 are prerequisite to the rest of the modules that make up the programme. The diagram below shows an example of a recommended structure of study, however students from session 2 of Year One onwards are free to choose the order in which they study the subjects, they only exception being that Actuarial Mathematics must be studied before Contingencies.
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
Session 1
Statistics Financial Mathematics
Session 2
Actuarial Mathematics Finance and Financial Reporting
Session 1
Risk Contingencies
Session 2
Economics Financial Engineering
Postgraduate Diploma awarded
<span style="color:#0000FF">Dissertation (optional) </span>
Master's Degree awarded
<span style="color:#0000FF">Delivery of course</span>
The course will be delivered through supported distance learning. Materials will be made available both in paper form and electronically via the University’s virtual online learning environment Blackboard.
The use of Blackboard will enable you to benefit from visualisations of key concepts through specialist software. Electronic forums and pod-casts will be used to support your learning.
Students will also have the opportunity to attend summer schools allowing you the opportunity to meet other students on the course and to attend tutorials.
<span style="color:#0000FF">Support for distance learning students</span>
Studying at a distance doesn't mean that we will leave you to it. The University of Leicester has been a provider of distance learning education for the past decade and therefore has vast experience in this kind of delivery, meaning that you can expect a strong network of support available to you. You can find out more about distance learning study here.
<span style="color:#0000FF">Mode of assessment</span>
Assessment will be via unseen examinations.
However progress throughout the course can be reviewed via the setting of regular non-assessed homework and short questions. Following feedback recorded tutorials, available on Blackboard, will cover any problem areas.
<span style="color:#0000FF">Who should study Actuarial Science?</span>
You may already be employed as a trainee actuary within a firm, or be a recent graduate looking to get into the industry, it could be that a career change is your reason for studying this course. Whichever it is, the Actuarial Science programme at Leicester will provide you with a headstart within this lucrative career, whilst giving you the flexibility to fit studying around your current employment and lifestyle.
<span style="color:#0000FF">Entry requirements</span>
At least a 2:1 classification in a relevant first degree.
We will also expect a certain prerequisite knowledge of probability and calculus. This means that students will typically be Mathematics, Statistics or Physics graduates, although we will consider graduates from other disciplines such as engineering and economics on an individual basis.
A revision course is available to students who feel they need to brush up in some areas of mathematics.
For more information ([Link nur für registrierte Benutzer sichtbar])</div>
MSc/PGDip Actuarial Science
<span style="color:#0000FF">Mode of Study</span>Distance learning
<span style="color:#0000FF">Enrolment dates</span>Late April and Late September
<span style="color:#0000FF">Benefits</span>
A career as an Actuary is a highly rewarding one – both financially and intellectually. Actuaries are problem solvers, business analysts, consultants and financial risk assessors all rolled into one. Their skills are applied in the worlds of insurance, pensions, healthcare, banking, business management and risk assessment.
Actuaries use mathematical and statistical knowledge and problem solving skills to help businesses and institutions evaluate the long term financial implications of decisions that they make.
<span style="color:#0000FF">Why study at Leicester?</span>
The Actuarial Science programme at Leicester is the only distance learning course accredited by the Faculty and the Institute of Actuaries. By studying this course you will gain the first accredited qualification in the step towards becoming a fully accredited Fellow of the Faculty and the Institute of Actuaries.
The University enjoys links with the financial industry including Mercer Human Resource Consulting, NFU Mutual and Pearl Life, ensuring that the course has been developed with the needs of key employers in mind. This means that graduates of the course will be highly employable.
<span style="color:#0000FF">ACCREDITATION BY THE FACULTY AND THE INSTITUTE OF ACTUARIES</span>
The University enjoys strong links with the Faculty and the Institute of Actuaries and has developed the programme working closely with them. The Faculty and the Institute of Actuaries has accredited the programme. This means that if you perform sufficiently well within the examinations for the Postgraduate Diploma qualification, you will automatically be exempt from taking the profession’s current CT examinations 1-8 - the first eight exams towards qualifying as a fellow of the Faculty and the Institute of Actuaries.
<span style="color:#0000FF">Course Content</span>
Modules covered will include:
Statistics
Financial Mathematics
Financial Engineering
Risk
Actuarial Mathematics
Contingencies
Finance and Financial Reporting
Economics
<span style="color:#0000FF">Course Structure</span>
The first two modules in session 1 are prerequisite to the rest of the modules that make up the programme. The diagram below shows an example of a recommended structure of study, however students from session 2 of Year One onwards are free to choose the order in which they study the subjects, they only exception being that Actuarial Mathematics must be studied before Contingencies.
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
Session 1
Statistics Financial Mathematics
Session 2
Actuarial Mathematics Finance and Financial Reporting
Session 1
Risk Contingencies
Session 2
Economics Financial Engineering
Postgraduate Diploma awarded
<span style="color:#0000FF">Dissertation (optional) </span>
Master's Degree awarded
<span style="color:#0000FF">Delivery of course</span>
The course will be delivered through supported distance learning. Materials will be made available both in paper form and electronically via the University’s virtual online learning environment Blackboard.
The use of Blackboard will enable you to benefit from visualisations of key concepts through specialist software. Electronic forums and pod-casts will be used to support your learning.
Students will also have the opportunity to attend summer schools allowing you the opportunity to meet other students on the course and to attend tutorials.
<span style="color:#0000FF">Support for distance learning students</span>
Studying at a distance doesn't mean that we will leave you to it. The University of Leicester has been a provider of distance learning education for the past decade and therefore has vast experience in this kind of delivery, meaning that you can expect a strong network of support available to you. You can find out more about distance learning study here.
<span style="color:#0000FF">Mode of assessment</span>
Assessment will be via unseen examinations.
However progress throughout the course can be reviewed via the setting of regular non-assessed homework and short questions. Following feedback recorded tutorials, available on Blackboard, will cover any problem areas.
<span style="color:#0000FF">Who should study Actuarial Science?</span>
You may already be employed as a trainee actuary within a firm, or be a recent graduate looking to get into the industry, it could be that a career change is your reason for studying this course. Whichever it is, the Actuarial Science programme at Leicester will provide you with a headstart within this lucrative career, whilst giving you the flexibility to fit studying around your current employment and lifestyle.
<span style="color:#0000FF">Entry requirements</span>
At least a 2:1 classification in a relevant first degree.
We will also expect a certain prerequisite knowledge of probability and calculus. This means that students will typically be Mathematics, Statistics or Physics graduates, although we will consider graduates from other disciplines such as engineering and economics on an individual basis.
A revision course is available to students who feel they need to brush up in some areas of mathematics.
For more information ([Link nur für registrierte Benutzer sichtbar])</div>