<p>If you want to become an actuary, where you get your degree from isn’t nearly as important as how many actuarial exams you can pass. Statistics might be your best bet for a major if there’s no actuarial science program.</p>
<p>If you want to go into quantitative finance, there’s a couple of graduate programs in mathematical finance/financial mathematics that feed directly into Wall Street (e.g. NYU’s). To prepare for these, you want a quantitative undergraduate major (math, statistics, physics, economics…) from a solid undergraduate school, maybe with a couple of business and programming classes thrown in.</p>