Accreditation Agreement between the Canadian Institute of Actuaries and Concordia University
The undergraduate actuarial programs at Concordia University have earned provisional accreditation at the national level from the Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA). Obtaining a degree from a program accredited by the CIA is a requirement for candidates pursuing the Associate (ACIA) or the Fellow (FICA) designations from the CIA through the so-called Pathway 1, the main route to get these designations. More information can be found at https://education.cia-ica.ca/pathway-1/acia-via-pathway-1/.
For a degree to be recognized by the CIA, a student must successfully complete the following mandatory courses:
Course Number |
Course Title |
|---|---|
STAT 249 |
Probability 1 |
| STAT 250 | Statistics |
| ACTU 256 | Mathematics of Finance |
| ACCO 230 | Introduction to Financial Accounting |
| ECON 201 | Introduction to Microeconomics |
| ECON 203 | Introduction to Macroeconomics |
| MACF 301 | Introduction to Quantitative Finance |
| ACTU 257 | Actuarial Mathematics I |
| ACTU 357 | Actuarial Mathematics II |
| ACTU 457 | Risk Theory |
| ACTU 458 | Credibility Theory |
| ACTU 459 | Loss Distributions |
| STAT 380/ACTU 491 | Statistical Learning |
| STAT 460 | Time Series and Forecasting |