Hi, im a first year student in monash sunway studying business and commerce. I wanna enquire if i can transfer to aussie in the second year to do actuarial studies in those uni offering actuarial science under their commerce degree? FYI, im taking ausmat before this and i was only taking math 3cd(higher/advance math) but not specialist math. If any one of you is kind enough to give me advice.

[quote=RyukA,Mar 26 2011, 01:04 PM]
Firstly, thanks for the feedback. Ok,in ausmat there are 3 levels of math,
1. math3ab - its for those who will be taking medicine (that does not require complex calculation, its like business math)
2. math 3cd - advance/higher math and it includes calculus, probability and prob distribution (Actuarial studies in curtin only requires this as prerequisite)
3. math 3cd specialist - for those who intend to take up engineering (mostly on calculus, from what i read in curtin website, it's not a must but desirable)

and i agree with you that uni melb's syllabus is quite different from commerce degree in monash sunway as it requires math subjects in the first year.
But for monash and unsw's commerce degree is it possible for me to do my transfer (do i have to spend half a year or 1 more year to take up some prerequisite subjects)?
In the first sem, i'm taking etw 1000 (bus and econometrics stats). do i need to take any econs stats subjects in the second sem?

i browsed through monash au website, it's stated that it has not been accredited for their part 2 exams at least before the year 2012. so is it recommendable to study AS in monash?

Semester 1 2011
AFW1000: Principles of accounting and finance*
ECW1101: Introductory microeconomics*
ETW1000: Business and economic statistics*
MGW1010: Introduction to management*

Semester 2 2011
AFW1002: Introduction to financial accounting
AFW1300: Money and capital markets
BTW1200: Business law*
MKW1120: Marketing theory and practice*

* Compulsory Subjects

How about those unis that offer bachelor of actuarial studies (ANU, Macq, Curtin), do they accept commerce student's transfering?
And your opinion, is actuary a good profession to pursue (job prospect: salary, working hrs, stress)? I'm still thinking which to major in, accounting or actuarial science.