Actuarial Preparation

The Department of Mathematical Sciences provides advising, courses, and exam preparation sessions to support students interested in pursuing a career in actuarial science. The director of this program is Dr. Charles Ashley, whose office is in St. Augustine Center, room 328, 610.519.6962.

Actuaries are people who deal with the financial risks involved in such life experiences as retirement, unemployment, accident, death, and other contingencies of living life. An actuary usually has strong mathematical, statistical, and business skills. A person becomes an actuary by passing a series of eight exams given by an actuary society. Villanova offers courses that prepare students for the first two exams: