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22nd August 2014, 12:04 PM
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Actuarial Science Degree LSE
I am searching about the BSc Actuarial Science course of London School of Economics. So will you help me in finding the infroamtion about this course?
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22nd August 2014, 02:17 PM
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Re: Actuarial Science Degree LSE
The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university. It is specialised in social sciences. This college is situated in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It offers many courses. Here I am giving you the information about BSc Actuarial Science. BSc Actuarial Science UCAS Code: N321 BSc/ActSci HEFCE/QAA Teaching Assessment: Approved 22 out of 24 points (November 1999) - as part of a single assessment of Mathematics and Statistics. Course Requirement: A level Mathematics at grade A or International Baccalaureate Higher level Mathematics (with 7). Normally required: A level: grades A A A, one of which must be Mathematics. Further Mathematics is highly desirable. International Baccalaureate: Diploma with 38 points including 7 6 6 at Higher level (with 7 in Mathematics). Degree Structure First Year ST102 Elementary Statistical Theory MA100 Mathematical Methods AC100 Elements of Accounting and Finance or MA103 Introduction to Abstract Mathematics EC102 Economics B Second Year ST202 Probability, Distribution Theory and Inference MA212 Further Mathematical Methods ST227 Survival Methods (half) and ST226 Actuarial Investigations - Financial (half) Courses to the value of one unit (to be discussed with tutor) Third Year ST302 Stochastic Processes (half) and ST304 Time Series and Forecasting (half) ST306 Actuarial Mathematics: General (half) and ST300 Regression and Generalised Linear Models (half) or ST306 Actuarial Mathematics: General (half) and ST308 Bayesian Inference (half) ST305 Actuarial Mathematics: Life ST330 Stochastic and Actuarial Methods in Finance Suggested Preliminary Reading The following books can help prepare for the programmes: J S Rosenthal Struck by Lightening: the curious world of probabilities (Harper Collins, 2005) V Bryant Yet Another Introduction to Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 1990) N L Biggs Discrete Mathematics (Oxford University Press, 2003) P Eccles An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning (Cambridge University Press, 1998) D Hand Statistics: a very short introduction (Oxford University Press, 2008) The following are books on mathematics and statistics containing little to no formulas: A Dilnot The Tiger That Isn't: Seeing Through a World of Numbers (Profile books, 2007) K J Devlin The Millennium Problems: the seven greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles of our time (Granta Books, 2005) P J Davis and R Hersh The Mathematical Experience (Houghton Mifflin, 2000) Address: London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom +44 20 7405 7686 Map: [MAP]https://maps.google.co.in/maps?q=London+School+of+Economics&hl=en&ll=51.5148 85,-0.117373&spn=0.007905,0.020428&sll=38.90643,-94.660521&sspn=0.009885,0.020428&t=m&z=16&iwloc=A[/MAP] |
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