Students, 2025/26
671
3.4% of all students in Iceland
Programmes with students
28
Studying by distance
None
Doctoral students
5
8 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 | 671 |
| 2024/25 | 624 |
| 2023/24 | 561 |
| 2022/23 | 599 |
| 2021/22 | 580 |
| 2020/21 | 547 |
| 2019/20 | 501 |
| 2018/19 | 443 |
| 2017/18 | 437 |
| 2016/17 | 465 |
| 2015/16 | 463 |
| 2014/15 | 445 |
| 2013/14 | 459 |
| 2012/13 | 444 |
| 2011/12 | 407 |
Programmes, 2025/26 (28)
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.).
- Myndlist B.A.90
- Grafísk hönnun B.A.56
- Arkitektúr B.A.50
- Tónsmíðar B.A.42
- Kvikmyndagerð, B.A.37
- Fatahönnun B.A.33
- Listkennsla M.A./M.Art.Ed./M.T. (120 ECTS)31
- Vöruhönnun B.A.31
- Listir og velferð, M.A. (120 ECTS)22
- Leikarabraut B.A. (180 ECTS)21
- Samtímadanslist B.A.21
- Sviðshöfundabraut B.A. (180 ECTS)21
- Hönnun M.A. (120 ECTS)19
- Sköpun, miðlun og frumkvöðlastarf M.A.19
- Kennsluréttindi í listgreinum (Bachelor gráða forkrafa) (30 ein.)18
- Myndlist M.A. (120 ECTS)18
- Arkitektúr M.A. (120 ECTS)17
- Hljóðfæraleikur B.Mus.17
- Söng- og hljóðfærakennsla B.A. (180 ECTS)17
- Söng- og hljóðfærakennsla M.A./M.Mus.Ed./M.T. (120 ECTS)16
- Hljóðfæri - söngur, B.Mus.15
- Skapandi tónlistarmiðlun, BA (180 ECTS)15
- Tónsmíðar M.A.12
- Meistaranám í kennslufræðum lista M.A./M.Ed./MT10
- Kennsluréttindanám í listum fyrir þá sem hafa meistaragráðu, diplóma8
- Listkennslufræði með aðfaranámi, M.Art.Ed (180 ECTS)7
- Stjórnmálafræði Dr. (3 ár)5
- Skapandi tónlistarmiðlun B.A. (180 ECTS)3
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, Bifröst University, 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.