“I Analyze Risk For a Living. It’s My Job to Worry”

You may have seen the Ben Stiller movie, ‘Along Came Polly’, where the protagonist had a job as a risk assessment expert. The details of the job were a little exaggerated of course, but this profession is certainly real and important; mostly to companies in the business of:

• insurance
• health
• retirement
• finance

These risk experts are also called actuaries. I decided to check out if there are any education grants for students studying in the field of risk management and assessment.

Here is a list of some colleges that offer grant and/or scholarship programs for students interested in actuarial science.

• The University of Nebraska at Lincoln
• Illinois State University
• The University of Iowa
• Ball State University
• The University of Texas at Austin

A great resource to check out to learn more about this profession would be the Society of Actuaries

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