Actuarial science ranked as most valuable college major
As an actuary, I can not recommend it to anyone with a technical background.<p>I have degrees in mathematics and actuarial science, and I consider my actuarial science degree completely worthless. A mathematics and/or computer science degree will teach you more in terms of how to think than anyone with an actuarial science degree. If you’d like to take a major where your professors literally teach to the exam/test, then you’re in luck, because that’s what your degree will get.<p>Having been in the workforce a handful of years now, there are a lot of intelligent actuaries and also a lot of arrogance about the work they have done.<p>I personally am frustrated with the career, but the salary in a low cost of living area makes it difficult to transition into something else.<p>Given all of this, the valuation of how majors are ranked is silly to me. The criteria almost automatically weight actuarial science as the favorite.