The Master of Actuarial Science will prepare you for the professional exams necessary to become an Actuary in North America with accreditation accepted in many other parts of the world. You will study and live in Canada for approximately 16 months (4 academic terms) while enrolled in a total of 12 courses. The courses will include actuarial mathematics as required for the Society of Actuaries (SOA) professional exams.
As a professional graduate program, alumni of the M.Act.Sc program are well prepared for careers in insurance, pensions, and healthcare industries. Graduates can also participate in one of the regular offerings of the Society of Actuaries (SOA) exams offered on-site.
Actuarial science includes a number of interrelated subjects, including probability, mathematics, statistics, finance, economics, and mathematics of finance.
UWindsor receives regular company visits from Canada Life, Willis Towers Watson and others, and has an Active Actuarial Club with graduate and undergraduate students.
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Manager, Actuarial Science Programs
Actuaries value uncertainty and measure risks for governments, companies, and individuals, in areas related to property casualty and life insurance, health care benefits, pensions, social security programs and other complex financial instruments. The MActSc program at the U of Windsor prepares students for professional exams of the Society of Actuaries (SOA). Faculty includes Fellows of the SoA and PhD’s in economics and statistics. The program ends with an actuarial capstone course that solves a real-world complex actuarial problem.
Land Acknowledgment
The University of Windsor sits on the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations, which includes the Ojibwa, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi. We respect the longstanding relationships with First Nations people in this place in the 100-mile Windsor-Essex peninsula and the straits – les détroits – of Detroit.
