This learning programme is specifically designed for students who plan to eventually qualify as actuaries, i.e. as fellows of a professional body. The Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA) uses the curriculum of the Joint Board of the Institute / Faculty of Actuaries, UK. Certain South African universities, of which the UFS is one, has an exemption agreement with the Institute / Faculty of Actuaries to recommend students, who perform to a certain standard, to obtain exemptions for the Core Technical (CT)-series subjects.
Type: undergraduate degre
Duration: 3 years full time
Compulsory Subjects
First year subjects:
- Financial management and reporting
- Economics
- Computer information systems
- Accounting
- Mathematics
- Mathematical statistics
- Computer literacy
Second year subjects:
- Actuarial science
- Mathematical statistics
- Computer information systems
- Mathematics and applied mathematics
- Economics
Third year subjects:
- Actuarial science
- Mathematical statistics
- Money and banking
Careers: actuary.
Source: www.ufs.ac.za