COURSE: BSC IN ACTUARIAL SCIENCE

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

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