St. John’s Remains a Center of Actuarial Excellence

The Actuarial Science program at The Peter J. Tobin College of Business at St. John’s University has retained its status as one of the elite institutions in its field with the recent renewal of its designation as a Center of Actuarial Excellence.

The University was notified of the renewal, which runs until the end of 2019, in a letter from the Society of Actuaries’ (SOA) Centers of Actuarial Excellence Evaluation Committee Chair Jennifer Gillespie. The renewal, Gillespie wrote, “was granted in response to your satisfactory compliance with CAE criteria.”

Those criteria include meeting certain curriculum standards as determined by the SOA, the official governing body of the profession.

“This continued designation reinforces the quality of our actuarial science curriculum and faculty at St. John's,” said Norean R. Sharpe, Ph.D., Dean and Joseph H. and Maria C. Schwartz Chair, The Peter J. Tobin College of Business. “We are proud to be considered a center of excellence, which allows us to attract the top faculty and students in the country, and to continue to make vital contributions to the profession.”

“Student success, which is one of the criteria for receiving the CAE designation, is the primary focus of the Actuarial Science program at St. John’s,” said Mark Browne, Ph.D., Professor and the Robert Clements Distinguished Chair in Risk Management and Insurance.

St. John’s first achieved this distinction in 2009 and is one of only 16 American universities to hold this prestigious honor.