Help with University of Iceland!

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DevilfishNew member16 September 2011 06:06:42

Hey! I'm a 20 year old guy from Honduras really interested in going to the University of Iceland for a masters degree in January 2013. I have a few questions:

1. What are the chances for someone like me to be accepted? I'll be graduating on Industrial Engineering on September 2012? I can speak English fluently and my mother tongue is Spanish.

2. How can you demonstrate that you can afford living in Iceland? I'm pretty worried about Bank Account things since I depend on my parents and they are willing to pay for my Masters Degree. They earn good wages (enough to easily afford Icelandic monthly expenses) but they don't really save money. Would that be an issue?

3. Any food information? Like if the UI gives free meals or something? I can't find information on that anywhere.

Thanks in advanced!

HarmonieViP16 September 2011 10:12:01

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Welcome to Expat.com Devilfish!

Have you taken a look at the different discussions of the forum? It may help.
Here is the link > https://www.expat.com/forum/viewforum.php?id=318

All the best,
Harmonie.

ECSNorway Expert16 September 2011 11:04:06

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hi,

some answers:

1) I can't say for sure but I don't think it's extremely difficult to get in, especially considering that I don't think there's a lot of competition in that field here.

2) there's info on the immigration website.
info on visas: http://utl.is/index.php?option=com_cont … 27&lang=en
info on financial support: http://utl.is/index.php?option=com_cont … 79&lang=en

3) I think the reason there's no info is because I don't think there is any free food. University in Iceland is much less full-feature than university in America, for example. Students tend to live in non-dormitory housing and take care of feeding themselves.

have you checked this site out? There might be more info here to help you:

http://www.ask.hi.is/id/304

DevilfishNew member16 September 2011 22:07:03

Thank you very much Harmonie!

And thanks ECS for the rather quick reply. Are you from the University of Iceland? If I want to start studying on January 2013 when do I have to apply? Are applications only once a year?

Thanks again, you've been really helpful!