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tram:
I'll try not to be biased given the fact i go to Melbourne haha, having said that i had a chat with the founder of monash's actuarial student society the other day and he did a good job at making me seriously concider transferring to monash for a few hours....
1) If you're set on actuarial, defs go to Melbourne. It has a significantly stronger actuarial program that has been around for much longer. The subjects have been there for years and it's recognized a a better program. Monash was only accredited for part one exams a few months ago.
2) The set of exams that people are talking about are the three sets of exams that are required to become a fully qualified actuary (part 1, part 2 and part3- yes, i know very inventive) Doing a normal three year course (and getting sufficiently high marks ~75%) will gain you exemption from part 1 on the exams. At Melbourne if you do an extra honours year, you also get exemptions for part 2 exams, i don't think monash have their part two exams credited yet (pretty sure this is what they mean by only being partly accredited) Again, Melbourne has just been around for longer and got the program up and running for years already
3) As has been mentioned if you want to do a double degree, go to monash, this would really be the only reason you would want to choose monash to do actuarial
4) At monash i think actuarial studies is a degree, i.e. you're focussing on actuarial from the start. At Melbourne you would take the BCom and you would have to have an idea that you wanted to do actuarial from the start and pick you subjects accordingly and if you think it's not for you you then can change you major.
More info on subjects can be found under the "2011 student's guide" at http://www.economics.unimelb.edu.au/actwww/ugradCurrent.shtml
if you want the monash perspective on actuarial PM True Tears who's doing actuarial at monash and he can tell you how he's finding it
--- Quote from: mystikal on May 08, 2011, 10:39:28 pm ---uni melb is abit far + hard to get scholarship
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just wanna point out that if you can get a scholarship to melbourne, they're insane (esp the Copland scholarship), let me put it this way, in the next 5 years, the faculty of business and economics is planning to raise $5,000,000 for scholarships JUST for commerce students...
Hope it helps :)
mystikal:
i just realised can u do a double major of acturial and something else at melb uni? coz i know its possible at monash but im not sure for uni of melb.
monkeywantsabanana:
Thanks for the responses guys! - much appreciated.
Tram - how are you finding the course? Hard? Easy? Moderate?
Are you a 'natural' at maths?
luken93:
--- Quote from: monkeywantsabanana on May 09, 2011, 08:46:55 pm ---Thanks for the responses guys! - much appreciated.
Tram - how are you finding the course? Hard? Easy? Moderate?
Are you a 'natural' at maths?
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Check out his scores :P
monkeywantsabanana:
--- Quote from: luken93 on May 09, 2011, 09:01:42 pm ---
--- Quote from: monkeywantsabanana on May 09, 2011, 08:46:55 pm ---Thanks for the responses guys! - much appreciated.
Tram - how are you finding the course? Hard? Easy? Moderate?
Are you a 'natural' at maths?
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Check out his scores :P
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Haha - yea i see :O that's good as!
but did he work hard for it or he's just a genius (all in his head)? :P
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