Commerce (Actuarial Studies), Bachelor

Commerce is an integral part of society. The Bachelor of Commerce explores how our desire to trade what we have for what we want has shaped how people and nations have interacted for millennia, and how global trade and digital disruption are fundamentally changing commerce in society.

Actuarial studies gives you the skills to identify, analyse and quantify risk, using mathematical, econometric and financial models. This major gives you the skills to pursue a career across a range of fields including traditional pension and life insurance, general insurance, enterprise risk management, fund management and econometric modelling. You will learn forecasting and econometric modelling tools and develop the technical skills to apply these tools to a wide range of business settings across the public and private sector. Subject to unit choices, you may meet some of the requirements of Part I of the Actuaries Institute professional qualification, which you will need to work as a professional actuary.