A route to explore · Ontario

I already passed actuarial exams or qualified overseas. How do I continue in Ontario?

Assess actuarial examinations or qualifications earned abroad

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Your starting point

List your professional body, passed exams, membership status and experience dates.

A pathway helps you explore. It does not decide eligibility or guarantee admission, funding, licensing or work. Each program has its own checked date.

01 / Start with your situation

Your first steps

List your professional body, passed exams, membership status and experience dates.
Compare CIA Pathway 2 for specified prior actuarial education with Pathway 3 for recognized Fellows; ask CIA to confirm your exact route.
Request the remaining education, exam, experience and fee requirements before purchasing courses or repeating a degree.

02 / Compare real options

Programs and organizations to explore

Open a program to see requirements, costs, funding and the official starting point.

Canadian Institute of Actuaries

CIA Pathway 2 — existing actuarial education or associate qualification →

A route recognizing specified prior actuarial education toward ACIA, with further CIA education and experience for FCIA.

Ongoing enquiries or individual applications · Confirm cost with provider

Checked October 20, 2026 How we check information

Requirements, funding and where to start →

Canadian Institute of Actuaries

CIA Pathway 3 — recognized Fellow qualification (3A/3B) →

Experience-based or exam-plus-experience routes to FCIA for holders of recognized fellow-level designations.

Ongoing enquiries or individual applications · Confirm cost with provider

Checked October 20, 2026 How we check information

Requirements, funding and where to start →

03 / Check affordability

Possible funding

See each program’s funding section and ask its provider about your eligibility and full costs. No pathway-wide funding is guaranteed.

04 / Before you commit

Important distinctions

These are qualification routes, not admissions to a general retraining course.
Recognition and Canadian-experience conditions depend on exact standing. No specific grant or employer payment has been established; funding must be investigated individually.