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Working Undergraduate Catalog 2026-2027 
    
Working Undergraduate Catalog 2026-2027

Actuarial Science Minor


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This program will provide a solid understanding of annuities, yield rates, amortization, sinking funds, and bonds with real-life applications. On completion of the program, the students would have a sound background of actuarial mathematics and risk theory and be able to analyze real-life problems involving life insurance and annuities along with associated premiums and valuations, and also be able to analyze problems involving individual risk models over a short term and collective risk models over a single and an extended period.

Please see the UNLV College of Sciences Department of Mathematics web page for information about department programs, faculty and facilities.  Degree worksheets and 4/5 year plans for the minor are available on the UNLV Degrees Directory.

Advising


Please see advising information at the UNLV College of Sciences Advising Center.

Accreditation


For information regarding accreditation at UNLV, please head over to Academic Program Accreditations.

University Graduation Requirements


To obtain this minor, you must be a degree seeking undergraduate student pursuing an approved UNLV bachelor’s degree. Please see Graduation Policies  for complete information.

Actuarial Science Minor - Total Credits: 20


No course in which a grade of C- or lower is earned may be applied to any minor in the College of Science.

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