Who are our members?

January-December 2011-2012

We have 23,950 members (December 2012). A breakdown of our membership is below. For the full report, see Our Members.

If you want to find join a network to find out more about the career, to speak to actuaries and to network with other people thinking of an actuarial career then join the International Actuarial Careers Network (IACN). A full breakdown of the IACN membership is here.

Age groups

  • 2% are under the age of 21
  • 42% are under the age of 30
  • 70% are under the age of 40

Gender

  • 30% are female
  • 70% are male

Location

  • 59% are in the UK
  • 41% are international
    • 33% rest of the world
    • 8% rest of Europe

Practice area

  • 21% Pensions
  • 27% Life insurance
  • 13% General insurance
  • 5% Investment
  • 3% Health and care, Enterprise Risk Management and other emerging fields
  • 5% retired
  • 26% other

University trends

University

Admissions

Ranking

2011 ranking

Movement

Heriot Watt

76

1

2

University of Warwick

69

2

1

Cass Business School

52

3

16

University of Kent

50

4

6

University of Southampton

47

5

10

University College Dublin

41

6

4

University of Oxford

41

7

8

London School of Economics

39

8

3

University of Manchester

34

9

11

Queen University Belfast

33

10

27

University of Nottingham

32

11

14

University of Birmingham

32

12

21

University of Bath

31

13

7

University of Bristol

29

14

18

University of Cambridge

29

15

12

City University

27

16

13

Durham University

25

17

15

Imperial College

21

18

17

University College London

20

19

9

University of Glasgow

19

20

23

What degree subjects do our members have?

Ranking

Degree subject

1

Mathematics

2

Actuarial Science

3

Economics

4

Physics

5

Accounting

6

Statistics

7

Engineering

8

Mathematics – MORSE

9

Science – other

10

Chemistry

11

Engineering – electrical/electronic

12

Finance

13

Engineering – civil

14

Business administration

15

Computer science

16

Engineering – mechanical

17

Science

18

Business

19

Engineering – aeronautical

20

Engineering – chemical