You might be eligible for a student loan

The Icelandic Student Loan Fund provides loans to foreign students if some conditions are met:

• The applicant is financially competent and has been domiciled in Iceland for two continuous years before the beginning of the period for which the student loan is applied for, or has been domiciled in Iceland for three of the ten years preceding the beginning of the period.
• Students from the Nordic countries receive equal loans to Icelandic students as long as they do not receive loans from their home country.
• Students from countries where Icelandic students receive loans are eligible for equal provisions in Iceland as students from the Nordic countries.
• Expatriates from the European Economic Area, currently dwelling in Iceland due to occupation are in title of equal Student loans to Icelandic students. So is their family and other under their support.

Further information on student loans is available from the Icelandic Student Loan Fund, www.lin.is and of course with the Student Loans Officer and on the SHI website,  www.student.is.