精算师评估和管理财务风险。他们通过应用先进的数学和统计技术来解决复杂的财务问题，从而为客户带来未来的财务意义。我们的应用精算学理科硕士课程（具有工业学位）得到了精算师学会和精算师协会的完全认可，它还为获得精算师资格提供了一条捷径，因为在该课程中获得足够高总分的学生可以获得豁免从他们的研究中包括的专业考试中获得。MSc仅作为全日制（一年）课程，再加上（不同长度的）分班课程，可将MSc课程延长至15到24个月。它适合那些已经完成了精算学专业学位或研究生文凭的人，或者已经学习了核心技术阶段的大部分较早学科的人。
Actuaries evaluate and manage financial risk. They make financial sense of the future for their clients by applying advanced mathematical and statistical techniques to solve complex financial problems. Qualifying as an actuary is a passport to a wide variety of careers in insurance companies, investments, pensions, health care and banking not just in the UK, but throughout the world. The MSc is available as a full-time (one-year) programme and is suitable for those who have completed a first degree or postgraduate diploma in Actuarial Science, or our MSc in Actuarial Science, or those who have studied the majority of the earlier subjects in the Core Principles Stage.<br><br>The UK Actuarial Profession is small, but influential and well rewarded. There are more than 6,500 actuaries currently employed in the UK, the majority of whom work in insurance companies and consultancy practices. As an actuary, your work is extremely varied and can include: advising companies on the amount of funds to set aside for employee pension payments, designing new insurance policies and setting premium rates, pricing financial derivatives and working in fund management and quantitative investment research, advising life insurance companies on he distribution of surplus funds, and estimating the effects of possible major disasters, such as earthquakes or hurricanes, and setting premium rates for insurance against such disasters.