ICELAND UNIVERSITY RECTOR INTERVIEW SMALL EUROPEAN COUNTRY UNIVERSITIES

March 1st, 2006

BY ALAN OSBORN FACT BOX Population of Iceland: 300,000 Number of students enrolled at university: 9,526 Percentage of university students who are Icelanders: 93% Percentage of Icelandic population attending university: 5.8% INTERVIEW A LOT of people are fascinated by Iceland and it's helped make the country's university something of a lure for students across Europe and even America. Unexpectedly perhaps, many come to study the Icelandic sagas and myths though a more logical attraction may be Iceland's lava fields and volcanoes, which seem of inexhaustible ...


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