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ACTUARIAL SCIENCE BAY CAMPUS
Our BSc Actuarial Science programme brings together mathematical, statistical and financial techniques to study financial risk in areas such as insurance, finance, and government. The programme is accredited by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries so that graduates with good degrees can obtain up to six exemptions from IFoA Core Principles examinations.
Global Opportunities available Full details available on the Course Reference Grid (page 134)
Our Actuarial Science programme was launched in 2019 and is the only Actuarial Science degree in Wales. It is based in the Mathematics Department and taught jointly with
AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Year 1 • Accounting and finance • Analysis and algebra • Economics • Statistics Year 2 • Corporate finance • Credibility, liability and ruin • Investments: assets, equities and bonds • Probability and statistics • Real analysis and vector calculus • Vector spaces Year 3 • Assurance and annuity • Complex analysis • Financial mathematics • Ito calculus • Interest rate modelling and machine learning • Stochastic processes and survival models
TYPICAL OFFER: AAA (to include Maths) Detailed entry requirements and course features available on the Course Reference Grid (page 134)
the School of Management. It provides students with a
BSc Single Honours ▲ Actuarial Science
thorough grounding in the areas of Mathematics, Accounting, Finance and Economics relevant to careers in the actuarial profession. Such careers are highly financially rewarding and very competitive. You will be taught in our new £32.5m Computational Foundry Building which provides the latest teaching facilities and you will be taught by expert research mathematicians as well as fully credentialed actuaries, accountants and management staff, many of whom have years or decades of business experience to draw upon for practical classroom examples.
▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR For individual UCAS course codes please visit the course web page
FUTURE CAREERS: • Actuary • Auditor • Financial Analyst • Insurance • Investment Banking • Management
ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE:
For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses
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