MSc Degrees in Statistics (Actuarial Science)

An actuary is a business professional who applies mathematics and statistics to assess risk in a wide variety of contexts ranging from insurance and banking to health and government planning. Read more

The MSc Actuarial Science is a full-time postgraduate programme aimed primarily at students with undergraduate degrees from quantitative disciplines such as maths, statistics, finance or any other programme with a high degree of mathematical content. Read more

The Master in Actuarial Science at ISEG (University of Lisbon) offers a solid academic foundation in actuarial science, statistics and finance, providing you the skills to become a successful actuary. Read more

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. Read more

The role of a traditional actuary is changing. Organisations require actuarial professionals with the analytical and statistical skills needed to analyse the large sets of data that they are being presented in today’s data-driven world. Read more

Our conversion course offers a route into the actuarial profession without a prior specialist mathematics education  Gain a competitive edge by applying… Read more

These programmes offers the opportunity to begin or consolidate your research career under the guidance of internationally renowned researchers and professionals in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS). Read more

Our MSD Statistics is a research degree within our School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science and we have staff members available to act as supervisors across a number of areas within statistics. Read more

Data science today is becoming increasingly important within the actuarial field, and Heriot-Watt has developed this unique new programme to meet this growing actuarial demand. Read more

Data science brings together computational and statistical skills for data-driven problem solving. This programme will equip students with the analytical tools to design sophisticated technical solutions using modern computational methods and with an emphasis on rigorous statistical thinking. Read more

Statistics is one of the most important fields of study in the world. The techniques we use to model and manipulate data guide the political, financial, and social decisions that shape our modern society. Read more

The MSc Quantitative Methods for Risk Management – formerly known as MSc Risk and Stochastics - offers in-depth instruction in probabilistic, statistical, and computational methods to quantify risk arising from, but not limited to, economic, financial, and insurance applications. Read more

Mathematics is the language that underpins the rest of science. Our interdisciplinary research recognises that mathematics, including what can be very abstract mathematics, is an essential part of research in many other disciplines. Read more

Our MSc Optimisation and Data Analytics will appeal if your first degree included mathematics as its major subject. We expect you to have prior knowledge of statistics – for example significance testing or basic statistical distributions – and operational research such as linear programming. Read more