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Stellenbosch University

Bachelor of Commerce with Honours in Actuarial Science

The Bachelor of Commerce with Honours in Actuarial Science in Business and Management is offered by Stellenbosch University.

Program Length: 4 YEARS.

Bachelor of Commerce with Honours in Actuarial Science offered by the Stellenbosch University at the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences

The Actuarial Science Honours programme is suited to students who have completed an undergraduate degree in Actuarial Science and who have been exempted from (or passed the profession’s examinations in) most of the technical subjects of the Actuarial Society of South Africa (or Institute and Faculty of Actuaries). The degree offers successful students exemptions from the profession’s examinations up to the level of associate actuary.

Programme content

At least 120 credits must be completed from the list of compulsory and elective modules below.

Programme module: Actuarial Science Both

Compulsory modules (108 credits)

Financial Economics (A205/CT8)

Actuarial Risk Management (A301/CA1)

Research Assignment: Actuarial Science

Elective modules (at least 12 credits)

Modules totalling at least 12 credits (as approved by the Head of Actuarial Science from time to time) must be selected from topics offered in the Mathematical Statistics or Financial Risk Management Honours programmes.

Students may, in addition to (i.e. not instead of) the above, also choose to take the following module: Communications (A302)