The University of Iceland, established in 1911, is a state university situated in the heart of Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland.
The University is a progressive educational and scientific institution, renowned in the global scientific community for its research. The University has set itself the long-term goal of being ranked among the best universities in the world and to employ internationally recognised quality standards in all appraisement of its work.
A modern, diversified, and rapidly developing institution, the University of Iceland offers opportunities for study and research in over 400 programmes spanning most fields of science and scholarship:
The University also offers several Interdisciplinary stydy programmes.
We want a degree from the University of Iceland to carry a definitive mark of quality that can be relied upon throughout the world. This goal will be the strength of the University's students in the future.
Some of the resources available at the University are uniquely Icelandic, these include:
- manuscripts preserved in the Árni Magnússon Institute
- Icelandic census records dating from 1703
- exceptionally complete genealogical data
- climatological, glaciological, seismic, and geothermal records.
UI also holds a leading role in sustainable energy and environmental research.