The HKU Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Science programme equips students with a solid background and specialist training in actuarial science. Students will acquire the confidence and analytical skills to define and tackle problems in actuarial science and related fields. The degree programme prepares students to sit the early actuarial exams to join the profession with an internationally recognised qualification upon graduation.

Offering modern actuarial training, the programme is designed to equip students with a solid background in actuarial science, and enable them to develop the confidence and analytical skills needed to define and tackle problems in actuarial science and related fields. The comprehensive degree is infused with multidisciplinary courses in diverse areas, including probability, statistics, economics, investment, finance, law, taxation, and accounting. Over the course of studies, students should be able to evaluate and measure various kinds of risk using effective quantitative methods, and become proficient in formulating and communicating practicable business strategies with professionalism as well as accuracy. Students may also choose to add a major in a science or non-science discipline, provided the course requirements are met.

There is no better training than obtaining solid hands-on experience in the real workplace. Our Internship Programme serves precisely this purpose. As an intern, the student will gain insight into the challenging world and daily activities of an actuary while strengthening his/her technical, analytical and communication skills.
 
Under the Internship Programme, BSc(ActuarSc) students are eligible to use the School’s Internship / Job Online-Application System, where related internships and other job openings including graduate positions will be posted. Our alumni may wish to know that normally they will still be eligible to use the System after graduation from our School.
 
The Internship Programme assists students by advertising part-time, summer, temporary and full-time internship positions, sending the CVs of interested students to employers, and arranging interviews for shortlisted students.
 
For details about our Internship Programme, please visit: https://saasweb.hku.hk/teaching/internship-details.php

1. Strong Network: As the first programme of its kind in Hong Kong, it has built a large and active network of alumni in the industry. All major insurance companies and many well-known financial institutions in Hong Kong have our graduates, and many of them hold a senior manager or higher position.

2. Career Advising Programme (CAP): The CAP has been introduced to help students pinpoint their strengths and weaknesses in terms of interview/CV writing skills and better prepare students to seize career opportunities readily. Besides one-to-one career consultation, the CAP will organise career-related activities to deepen students’ understanding of the industries.

3. Career Development: Job opportunities for actuaries are vast and available in a variety of industries. Financial institutions like insurance firms, investment banks, accounting firms, government/regulatory bodies, risk/asset/liability management consulting firms, even universities are hiring our Actuarial Science graduates.

Given Hong Kong’s booming insurance industry and the rapid development of the mainland China market, actuaries enjoy very attractive career prospects. Recent graduates hold positions in major insurance and reinsurance companies, actuarial consulting firms, and investment banks such as AIA, AXA Insurance, BOC Group Life Assurance, HSBC Life, Manulife, Sun Life Financial, Prudential, Willis Towers Watson, General Re, Reinsurance Group of America, JP Morgan, Standard Chartered, Ageas Insurance, Ernst and Young, Mercer, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and many others.

Some of our graduates have also pursued postgraduate studies in world-renowned universities such as Harvard University, Cambridge University, Oxford University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University and Cornell University. According to a survey conducted by the University in 2023, the average salary (gross monthly income) of our Actuarial Science fresh graduates is $29,741 whilst the maximum is $50,000.