The Actuarial Profession

Truly one of the most exciting, lucrative and meaningful professions!

To learn more about this profession and career path, please visit the following websites

Be An Actuary Website - great resources and information for all about the profession

To assess whether you have the Math Skills for the profession, try the practice exams – last link on the above website.

Another excellent website – This one

CAS (Casualty Actuarial Society) Website

SOA (Society of Actuaries) Website

To prepare for the Actuarial Exams, check out these resources

Check out this link - click here or here

More Resources

Win a Scholarship to study Actuarial Science at Loyola

Another Scholarship opportunity

At Loyola University Chicago, we currently offer VEE Actuarial credit to students completing our:

· Applied Regression course (STAT 308/408) offered in the Math Dept.

· Corporate Finance (FINC322)

· Microeconomics course (ECON201)

· Macroeconomics course (ECON202)

More information about VEE credit can be found here

Below is the suggested sequence of courses for the typical 4-year UG student:

This sequence suggested by working actuaries and employers, who also point out that

it is imperative that students work as Actuarial Interns during the summer after 2^nd year.

	Fall Semester	Spring Semester
1^st Year	Math 161 – Differential Calculus	Math 162 – Integral Calculus; Stat 203 – Statistics (Calculus based)
2^nd Year	Math 263 – Multivariate Calculus; Stat 304 – Prob/Math Stat I; Stat 396 – Actuarial Review I	Stat 305 – Prob/Math Stat II; Stat 397 – Actuarial Review II
3^rd Year	Financial Mathematics, Finance courses	Stat 308 – Applied Regression
4^th Year	Accounting course(s)