The UB, awarded for its studies on actuarial and financial sciences

The Official Master’s Degree on Actuarial and Financial Sciences of the UB has been distinguished as an excellent training program.
The Official Master’s Degree on Actuarial and Financial Sciences of the UB has been distinguished as an excellent training program.
Academic
(18/05/2018)
The University of Barcelona has been awarded the Global Centers of Insurance Excellence (GCIE) accreditation of theInternational Insurance Society, given to those universities with a high international quality study programs in the field of risk management and insurances. The Official Masterʼs Degree on Actuarial and Financial Sciences of the UB has been distinguished as an excellent training program.
The Official Master’s Degree on Actuarial and Financial Sciences of the UB has been distinguished as an excellent training program.
The Official Master’s Degree on Actuarial and Financial Sciences of the UB has been distinguished as an excellent training program.
Academic
18/05/2018
The University of Barcelona has been awarded the Global Centers of Insurance Excellence (GCIE) accreditation of theInternational Insurance Society, given to those universities with a high international quality study programs in the field of risk management and insurances. The Official Masterʼs Degree on Actuarial and Financial Sciences of the UB has been distinguished as an excellent training program.

The aim of the GCIE accreditation program is to award the activity of the universities regarding the development of research and intellectual capital, which promote the progress of knowledge in the field of insurances and knowledge transfer to society, and in particular, the insurance sector. There are currently twenty universities in the world with this award.


The masterʼs degree in Actuarial and Financial Sciences of the University of Barcelona is a multidisciplinary study program in accordance with the most demanding international standards to work in the actuarial sector, with a solid quantitative training (mathematics and statistics). Actuaries are experts on the assessment of financial risks, demographers and insurers, with a solid basis on mathematics, statistics and economic and legal knowledge. These professionals, who have a series of law-recognized functions, work in sectors such as banking, big companies with departments of risk management, insurance companies, exchange and stock exchange agencies, and other corporations that need professionals with the required quantitative training to develop these functions.


GCIE accreditation given to the UB has valid period for five years and has to be renewed afterwards. The designees in the 2018 edition of GCIE will be officially announced in the IIS Global Insurance Forum to be held from July 8 to 11 in Berlin (Germany). The IIS Global Insurance Forum is one of the most important conferences in the field of insurances, where researchers from the academic field, managers from insurance companies and representatives of the public administration share their views.