Programme Aims:
The main aim of the Actuarial and Investment Science (AIS) specialism is to provide students with a solid foundation of actuarial and investment science. Graduates will become leading professionals in addressing business and societal problems that require identification, quantification, assessment or management of the financial implications of risk.
Characteristics
The programme provides graduate-level subjects with an emphasis on the advanced methodologies and techniques of actuarial and investment science that are useful to financial and actuarial professionals.
Our focus is on applications and the use of software packages to handle real-world data and solve practical problems.
Recognition & Prospects
Our graduates become leading professionals in tackling business and societal problems that require identification, quantification, assessment or management of the financial implications of risk.
In recent years our graduates in Actuarial and Investment Science specialism have continuously secured internship positions in leading insurance companies and investment banks as actuaries and data analysts in both Hong Kong and Mainland China.
Curriculum
Programme Structure
A student studying for the MSc (AIS) award must complete 7 Compulsory Subjects (21 credits), and 3 Core Subjects (9 credits) or a Dissertation (9 credits).
Core Areas of Study
Seven Compulsory Subjects (21 credits)
Three Core Subjects from the following list or a Dissertation
*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please check with institution
Expected September 2024
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
ST305, 3/F, Ng Wing Hong Building,
Hung Hom,
Kowloon City, Hong Kong, Kowloon
A Bachelor's degree with Honours in engineering, computer science, basic science, business, economics, or the equivalent (industrial or business experience will be an asset).
If you are not a native speaker of English, and your Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification is awarded by institutions where the medium of instruction is not English, you are expected to fulfil the following minimum English language requirement for admission purpose, unless otherwise specified by individual programmes concerned:
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.
PolyU ranks 65th in the QS World University Rankings and 79th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings internationally.