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AU Sample Course
- Topics
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- Navigating the Evolving Commercial Underwriting Landscape
- Evaluating Automation and Judgment in Commercial Underwriting
- Managing Information Complexity in Commercial Underwriting
- Balancing Pressures in Commercial Underwriting Decisions
- Building a Modern Commercial Underwriting Toolkit
- Today’s Commercial Underwriting Environment
- Average Completion Time
- 30-45 Minutes
Build Modern Commercial Underwriting Skills
Develop practical skills to make stronger underwriting decisions, use modern tools effectively, and apply sound judgment to complex risks.
What You’ll Gain with AU
AU Will Help You:
- Analyze commercial risks to identify key exposures.
- Evaluate underwriting information to make stronger decisions.
- Develop recommendations for coverage, pricing, terms, and risk control.
- Assess market and portfolio conditions to strengthen underwriting strategy.
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Interactive Online Course
Learn at your own pace through a structured learning experience and modules featuring animations, video, question/answer scenarios, and more.
AI Learning Support
Get help when you need it with an AI-powered tool built directly into your course. Ask questions, get explanations, and stay focused as you work through core topics.
Mobile App with Audio
A flexible and convenient way to assess your understanding anytime, anywhere, and includes audio versions of your course material.
Practice Questions
Test your understanding throughout the course with knowledge checks and exam practice questions designed to reinforce key concepts, identify areas for review, and help you prepare with confidence.
Simulated Exam
Strengthen your readiness using a timed exam that mirrors the structure and difficulty of the actual exam. Students who complete the simulated exam pass at higher rates than those who don't.
Top 3 Reasons to Earn AU
Commercial underwriting is becoming more strategic as technology changes how risks are evaluated and decisions are made.
Top 3 Reasons to Earn AU
Make Stronger Decisions With Modern Skills
AI, automation, and analytics can help you work more efficiently and uncover valuable insights, but strong commercial underwriting still requires interpreting information, evaluating uncertainty, and making decisions when the answer isn't always clear. AU helps you use modern tools effectively while strengthening the judgment needed to make and support quality underwriting decisions.
Connect Risk Selection With Profitable Growth
A quality underwriting decision considers more than whether an individual account is acceptable. AU helps you understand how risk selection, pricing, coverage, terms, retention, and other decisions contribute to portfolio performance and broader business goals.
Build a Broader Strategic Perspective
AU builds from account-level decision-making to commercial underwriting strategy, helping you understand market and competitive conditions, portfolio direction, pricing adequacy, retention, and performance.
3 Core Courses
Make stronger decisions with modern skills
Build modern commercial underwriting skills to confidently evaluate risks and make stronger decisions with the following core courses:
AU at a Glance
Gain skills you can use right away with the AU designation. This program includes:
- 4 courses, plus ethics
- 9-12 months to complete
- 100% online courses
- Virtual exams for all courses
- Diploma upon completion
Ready-Made Career Skills:
- Commercial Underwriting
- Decision-Making
- Risk Analysis
- Underwriting Strategy
- Portfolio Management
- Pricing Analysis
- Analyze commercial risks to identify the exposures and characteristics that matter most when assessing account suitability.
- Make stronger, more informed commercial underwriting decisions by applying financial, operational, and risk-analysis tools.
- Effectively evaluate commercial property and liability accounts to assess how key risk characteristics and exposures affect insurability and loss potential.
- Develop stronger commercial underwriting recommendations that address appropriate coverage, pricing, terms, and risk-control requirements.
- Assess market, competitive, and internal conditions to determine how they should influence commercial underwriting strategy.
- Evaluate underwriting and pricing decisions to determine whether commercial business is expected to deliver acceptable returns.
As part of earning your AU designation, your elective course will earn you credit toward the CPCU designation. This will get you one step closer to earning CPCU, the leadership standard in risk management and insurance.
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Still Wondering if AU is Right for You?
Here are some final facts to help you decide whether AU aligns with your role and professional goals.
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Who should take AU?
AU is designed for commercial underwriting and insurance professionals looking to build modern skills to evaluate complex risks, strengthen their judgment, and make stronger underwriting decisions.
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Does earning this designation give me credit toward others?
Yes! Completing this program may earn you credit toward:
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How do testing windows work?
We offer exams in 4 testing windows throughout the year.* You can complete your exam at any time in the testing window that you registered for. Access your exam from your account when the window opens and complete any time until 11:59 p.m. ET on the final day of the window.
- Quarter 1: January 15 – March 15
- Quarter 2: April 15 – June 15
- Quarter 3: July 15 – September 15
- Quarter 4: October 15 – December 15
*Exam windows that close on a weekend will be extended to the following business day.
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