Insurance and Risk Management Program
SPECIALTY : Insurance and Risk Management
DURATION : 3 years (6 Semesters)
DEGREE IN VIEW : Bachelor of Science (BSc)
FACULTY : Faculty of Business and Management Sciences (FBMS)
Category : Undergraduate
Through a balance of theoretical and applied scholarship that informs business practice and enhances student learning, the department seeks to develop socially responsible leaders and entrepreneurs who are prepared to add immediate value in today’s diverse and globalized insurance business.
Program Objectives
This program is designed to provide specialist vocational skills linked to insurance professional bodies’ requirements and labour market needs. The objective is to train potential managers, specialists, and advisers in the insurance sector capable of handling managerial positions and responsibilities within an insurance/reinsurance company, general agency, insurance brokerage firm, and insurance operations by any financial intermediary.
The programme also aims at training managers capable of keeping up with the drafting of insurance policies, addressing the resulting claims, following up the implementation of reinsurance treaty and establishing transfer slips to various reinsurers, manage insurance products portfolio in an insurance, banking, financial firm and any other company.
Career Opportunities
After gaining the Bachelor Degree in Insurance and Risk Management, students will have a world of opportunities available to them.
- Progress to Masters Degree programmes of the University while working. With the BSc programme, students have the possibilities to continue for further degrees in the university.
- Progression to Professional Qualifications.
- The opportunities to participate in internships allow students to put their new knowledge and abilities to practice in the real world. Gaining strong work experience with leading organizations in the sector will help set students ready for the competition, preparing them to achieve their career goals much quicker.
- Coupled with comprehensive career support from workshops that will be organized, students will benefit from individual career advice and seminars.
- Students will be open to entrepreneurship opportunities as consultants, agents, and independent insurance service providers.
