Let us explore the halls that the brightest minds in history have walked in with this list of the oldest operational universities in the world!
Data: topuniversities.com
Established: 1209
Location: United Kingdom
Established by a group of scholars who left Oxford University following a political spat, Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world.
Established: 1160-1250
Location: France
Also called ‘la Sorbonne’, the University was a voice for Roman Catholic Orthodoxy. Its operations were suspended between 1793 and 1896, after the French Revolution.
Established: 1134
Location: Spain
Also called ‘la Sorbonne’, the University was a voice for Roman Catholic Orthodoxy. Its operations were suspended between 1793 and 1896, after the French Revolution.
Established: 1096-1167
Location: United Kingdom
While some claim that it was established even earlier than 1096, Oxford University is undoubtedly the oldest university in the English-speaking world.
Established: 1088
Location: Italy
Established in 1088, and having never been out of operation, the University of Bologna is the oldest in the world.
The Al-Azhar University, established in 970 AD in Egypt, is the first known centre of Islamic learning, but it did not gain university status until 1961.
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