midifile said:
Yea see thats what i thought. But my cousin is doing a commerce/liberal studies degree in UNSW and she said that if you want to major in acturarial studies as part of your commerce degree you have to deciede before you start uni, while you can choose other majors at the end of your first year. So the fact that i am not 100% sure if I want to do actuarial studies worries me, because I dont want to have nothing to fall back on if i deciede later that i dont want to do it. Or is it easy to change majors if it comes to that?
With macq uni, you start your first actuarial subject in the 1st sem, where as unsw starts it in the 2nd sem.
So I guess unsw gives a semester to think about what major you are leaning to, where as macq sort of assumes you are going to continue and major in actuarial studies (hence why you enrol in the specialist degree b.com (acst)), but at UNSW it's just the b.com and what ever major you want to do.
At macq it's relatively easy to transfer between degrees, (apart from law and some other degrees), you just have to keep up with a pass-credit average. You could just enrol in any double degree or even just the single degree b.com(acst) then you can pick up another degree during the year, and since your average should be near if not above the credit average your chances of picking up another degree would be quite likely
At unsw you'll have to go through uac to transfer degrees if they are from other faculties or if it has a higher uai cut off (which is a real pain the ass)
So unless you are like 70% sure you want to be an actuary of some sort later on (this does include the non-trad roles of an actuary) go to unsw, but macq is the place to be for acst!