about university in the UK and Canada

[AKWEN]

HI everyone, I'm new to here!!
I'm currently studying A-levels in the UK and I would like to become an actuary in the future.
Here I got some questions about university.

[url]http://www.actuary.com/actuarial-science-schools/[/url]
Can anyone explain why there is no UK's universities listed in this table above? As I know a few universities do actuarial science in undergraduate in the UK, e.g. LSE, City, Southhampton.
Other than that, I would quite like to know which university is a better choice for studying actuarial science in Canada? University of Wateroo or University of Toronto?

Please Help!! MANY THX!!

[Helenimo]

ayy a university is gonna you a first dgree right, some universuties offer courses which makes you elligible for exemption of otther exams,conditional to the score you manage to get( usually a difficult task).

so my advise is Check on the Actuarial courses offered by each universities in question and check if they are gonna win you any exemptions,

[Matthewtung]

HI everyone, I'm new to here!!
I'm currently studying A-levels in the UK and I would like to become an actuary in the future.
Here I got some questions about university.

[url]http://www.actuary.com/actuarial-science-schools/[/url]
Can anyone explain why there is no UK's universities listed in this table above? As I know a few universities do actuarial science in undergraduate in the UK, e.g. LSE, City, Southhampton.
Other than that, I would quite like to know which university is a better choice for studying actuarial science in Canada? University of Wateroo or University of Toronto?

Please Help!! MANY THX!!

okay..I think I am very suitable to answer your question, I am a student who study high school in UK before(from 4th form to upper sixth), and switch to canada to study act sci...
yes, LSE offers act sci degree, but you definitely require 3A (or more!) to get in...
the reason why there is no listing of UK university in this site becoz we have different exam board, SOA and CAS are board for america, the board for The England and Wales is Institute of Actuaries and the board for scotland is Faculty of Actuaries. There's more details on this site:
[url]http://www.actuaries.org.uk/Display_Page.cgi?url=/index.html[/url]

I am currently studying in University of Toronto(UT), and I would probably say that the Math faculty in U of Waterloo(UW) is much bigger than UT (UW have their own faculty of Maths, and UT only have math department under art and science faculty), also I have heard that UW has tougher courses!

Bottom line, UW is ppl who want to concentrate on math, stats and comp sci go to, UT has a better reputation (i.e. ppl from other country will know UT better than UW)

so it depends what you what to get at the end of the day~

P.S. Sam Broverman, the writer of actex Exam P/1 study guide, is UT's head of act sci sub-department, although recently he hasn;t been taught exam p in UT, we do use his notes in the future course and sometimes he holds seminar for other courses as well...

[AKWEN]

hey mathew..
That is very useful but i need more of ur advice...plz check ur private msg!
THX
XDXD

[Brikian]

okay..I think I am very suitable to answer your question, I am a student who study high school in UK before(from 4th form to upper sixth), and switch to canada to study act sci...
yes, LSE offers act sci degree, but you definitely require 3A (or more!) to get in...
the reason why there is no listing of UK university in this site becoz we have different exam board, SOA and CAS are board for america, the board for The England and Wales is Institute of Actuaries and the board for scotland is Faculty of Actuaries. There's more details on this site:
[url]http://www.actuaries.org.uk/Display_Page.cgi?url=/index.html[/url]

I am currently studying in University of Toronto(UT), and I would probably say that the Math faculty in U of Waterloo(UW) is much bigger than UT (UW have their own faculty of Maths, and UT only have math department under art and science faculty), also I have heard that UW has tougher courses!

Bottom line, UW is ppl who want to concentrate on math, stats and comp sci go to, UT has a better reputation (i.e. ppl from other country will know UT better than UW)

so it depends what you what to get at the end of the day~

P.S. Sam Broverman, the writer of actex Exam P/1 study guide, is UT's head of act sci sub-department, although recently he hasn;t been taught exam p in UT, we do use his notes in the future course and sometimes he holds seminar for other courses as well...

I don't know if i am right, i think the standard of Canadian universities is roughly the same. What i want to say is, a math graduate from U of T should be as capable/competitive as a waterloo math graduate. UW's math faculty is bigger, but it diesn't mean UW's courses are tougher or better.

[Matthewtung]

I don't know if i am right, i think the standard of Canadian universities is roughly the same. What i want to say is, a math graduate from U of T should be as capable/competitive as a waterloo math graduate. UW's math faculty is bigger, but it diesn't mean UW's courses are tougher or better.

It really depends how you see it...
UT is much bigger than UW
however recourses is much less that UW

let me give u my personal experience on this:
Time series analysis course in UT is currently teach by a TD banker, which basically copying notes to the board. For assignment, last year he ask us to pick 2 datasets from the textbook and give a report. Test/Exam is more theoretical based. It is pretty bad, and no one seems to material clearly.

But from a friend who take the same course in UW, they have more active discussion, and creative assignment(analysis real stock market). And he siad he throughly enjoy the class. He even told me that is one of the best class he took.

So that's why I think UW is slight better than Ut from a UT student point of view. Also, UW have co-op program which help you to land job for a long time, while UT JUST started to do that 1/2 an year ago.

[Brikian]

It really depends how you see it...
UT is much bigger than UW
however recourses is much less that UW

let me give u my personal experience on this:
Time series analysis course in UT is currently teach by a TD banker, which basically copying notes to the board. For assignment, last year he ask us to pick 2 datasets from the textbook and give a report. Test/Exam is more theoretical based. It is pretty bad, and no one seems to material clearly.

But from a friend who take the same course in UW, they have more active discussion, and creative assignment(analysis real stock market). And he siad he throughly enjoy the class. He even told me that is one of the best class he took.

So that's why I think UW is slight better than Ut from a UT student point of view. Also, UW have co-op program which help you to land job for a long time, while UT JUST started to do that 1/2 an year ago.

A TD banker,i really can't believe that. Isn't time series analysis a 4th year stats course? From what i have heard from some people, UW is juat harder to get in but the graduate rate is way higher than U of T in general.