Master's Degree in Actuarial and Financial Sciences

Course 1

Course 2

goals

An actuary is a higher graduate specialized in the assessment and management of risks borne by different economic agents. The actuary's training allows him, among other things, to establish the solvency requirements that insurance companies, in particular, and financial institutions, in general, must meet.

The Master's Degree in Actuarial and Financial Sciences provides the knowledge, mainly in Economics, Mathematics and Statistics, on which the profession of actuary is based and which together constitute the core of Actuarial Science.

Recipients

As a general rule, anyone who holds an official title of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) or equivalent, who entitles them to access the Master's degree, may apply to enter the University Master's Degree, although Graduates or graduates in Economics, Business Administration and Management, Finance and Insurance, Mathematics, Statistics and Engineering.

Why study this master?

Actuaries have exclusive competence in certain professional activities and their work activity includes: private insurance companies, Social Security, consulting and auditing in matters of insurance and finance, banking, reinsurance entities, risk management applying financial-stochastic methodology in companies and institutions from non-financial economic sectors, etc. The actuary profession is a regulated profession (BOE November 20, 2008).

Admission requirements for masters

Non-enabling university masters

• Be in possession of any of the following titles:
  • Spanish official university degree.
  • Title issued by an institution of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and empowering in the country of issue for access to Master's education.
  • Title of educational systems outside the EHEA that empowers in the country of issuance for access to Master's education, homologated or declared equivalent to the degree and academic level of Degree or Degree by the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training . In case of lacking the mentioned homologation or equivalency, it will be necessary to have authorization or access permission granted by this University.
• Or be carrying out during the course in which you pre-enroll studies leading to the obtaining of any of the previous degrees and be in a position to prove the obtaining of the same before September 30, 2020 .
• In addition, students from foreign educational systems, whose mother tongue is different from Spanish, must prove level B2 of the Spanish language (or higher) .
• Specific requirements that any of the requested masters may have. You can consult it by accessing the website of the Master itself.