Hey everyone, I’m in a predicament right now. I currently attend UC Merced as an applied math student and I got into UCSB for their actuarial science. I really want to become an actuary and I know going to UCSB for the specific degree in actuarial science would give me a leg up over the applied math degree. But my main concern is that at UCM I am already scheduled to graduate a year early so I would be able to get a 4 year degree in 3. Now if I went to UCSB im pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to graduate as early as at UCM. So should I go to UCSB and get an actuarial science degree from them, or stay at UCM where I would graduate a year early and have an applied math degree which is more general and would let me choose another career if I decide not to become an actuary.
Pay a visit to the career center at UCM, and to whoever it is in your department who is responsible for helping the the applied math majors get jobs. Ask about job and internship placement.
Then, contact the people in applied math at UCSB, and find out how your credits will transfer so that you know more precisely how many semesters you would need to be there.
Yeah I should probably do that.
What would you choose? If lets say the units didn’t transfer and you had to spend 2 years at UCSB if you chose to transfer, or you’d graduate by next year if you chose to stay at UCM?
If my applied math degree from UCM will get me the kind of job I was looking for, I’d just stay there and finish up as quickly as I could. I don’t see any point in spending extra money and time unless there is a very good reason for it.
Yeah I’m kind of leaning towards just staying and graduating early. Two of my best friends go to UCSB and that is a plus but still don’t think I’m gonna go there. The only reasons that I would want to go would be because they train you for the exams I have to take for the career I want to do and they are one of the few certified schools on the west coast. My sister was telling me that it really doesn’t matter where you graduate from, how true is that?
There are very few careers where the name of the college/university that you graduate from matters.
Pay a visit to the career center on your campus, and get some help with finding good options for prep for the actuary exams.