Actuaries look at current social, economic or legal trends and determine their financial impact on future events. Accurate predictions are critical to the companies or institutions that depend on them. Actuaries must have a good background and broad knowledge of mathematics, statistics and economics to provide good estimates of future events. The Actuarial Sciences concentration at UTEP combines specialized work in mathematics and statistics with a variety of courses including: Computer Science, Business Administration classes in Accounting, Finance and Economics, and oral and written communication. The program seeks to ensure successful placement of its students in companies as actuarial trainees by preparing them to take at least the fist two actuarial exams: Probability, Statistics, Economics, Finance and the Theory of Interest, by graduation.