Students, 2025/26
1,647
8.4% of all students in Iceland
Programmes with students
31
Studying by distance
100.0%
1,647 students
Doctoral students
None
57 of its students have their legal residence abroad. “Legal residence abroad” is where a student is registered as living, not their citizenship — it is much smaller than the number of foreign citizens, which Statistics Iceland publishes only for the country as a whole. Counts are students registered in the autumn; each student is counted once, even if studying at more than one school.
Students, 2011–2025
| 2025/26 | 1,647 |
| 2024/25 | 1,358 |
| 2023/24 | 678 |
| 2022/23 | 697 |
| 2021/22 | 769 |
| 2020/21 | 753 |
| 2019/20 | 576 |
| 2018/19 | 522 |
| 2017/18 | 425 |
| 2016/17 | 450 |
| 2015/16 | 472 |
| 2014/15 | 459 |
| 2013/14 | 360 |
| 2012/13 | 372 |
| 2011/12 | 417 |
Programmes, 2025/26 (31)
Every programme with at least one student, largest first, with the number of students on it. Names are in Icelandic, as Statistics Iceland lists them; the degree is part of the name (B.A., B.S., M.S., Ph.D.).
- Forysta og stjórnun M.L.M. (90 ECTS án ritgerðar)435
- Viðskiptafræði B.S.343
- Viðskiptalögfræði B.S.120
- Forysta og stjórnun M.S. (90 ECTS með ritgerð)98
- Skapandi greinar, B.A.88
- Öryggisfræði og almannavarnir BA (180 ECTS)61
- Forysta, mannauðsstjórnun og markaðsfræði, MLM, (120 ECTS)60
- Miðlun og almannatengsl B.A. (180 ECTS)56
- Markaðsfræði M.M.M. (90 ECTS)52
- Samskiptastjórnun MA (90 ECTS)38
- Viðskiptalögfræði M.B.L. (90 ECTS)37
- Heimspeki, hagfræði og stjórnmálafræði (HHS) B.A.33
- Viðskiptalögfræði M.L. (60 ein.)31
- Áfallastjórnun M.C.M. (90 ECTS án ritgerðar)29
- Menningarstjórnun M.A. (45 ein.)25
- Menningarstjórnun M.C.M. (90 ECTS)25
- Opinber stjórnsýsla B.A.25
- Markaðsfræði M.S. (90 ECTS)15
- Skapandi greinar - grunndiplóma (60 ECTS)14
- Áfallastjórnun M.A. ( 120 ECTS )13
- Áfallastjórnun, viðbótardiplóma (60 ECTS)11
- Opinber stjórnsýsla, grunndiplóma (60 ECTS)10
- Fyrirtækjalögfræði, viðbótardiplóma (30 ECTS)6
- Viðskiptafræði með áherslu á verkefnastjórnun B.S. (180 ECTS)6
- Heimspeki, hagfræði og stjórnmálafræði, grunndiplóma4
- Viðskiptafræði markaðssvið B.S. (markaðssamskipti/samskiptamiðlar)4
- Viðskiptafræði með áherslu á verslun og þjónustu B.S.3
- Viðskiptalögfræði MA (150 ECTS)2
- Viðskiptafræði M.S. (45 ein.)1
- Viðskiptafræði með áherslu á matvælarekstur B.S.1
- Viðskiptalögfræði ML (120 ECTS)1
What it costs
Iceland's four public universities charge no tuition, but may charge an annual registration fee of up to ISK 100,000 per student under the Public Higher Education Institutions Act (No. 85/2008, art. 24); the University of Iceland's rules set it at ISK 100,000. That is not the whole picture for students from outside the EEA: an amendment in force since 1 July 2026 allows public universities to charge them tuition, and the amounts had not been set when we checked — ask the university. The three private universities set their own tuition, which is not published as data.
The other universities in Iceland: University of Iceland, Reykjavik University, University of Akureyri, Iceland University of the Arts, Agricultural University of Iceland, Hólar University
Source: Statistics Iceland (Hagstofa Íslands), tables SKO00003, SKO00004 and SKO04106a, under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Sums, shares and the selection of years are CollegeMatcher's own calculations, not Statistics Iceland's. English names, public/private status, seats and websites added by CollegeMatcher. Programme names are Statistics Iceland's, in Icelandic.