List of 50 Oldest Universities in the World

Here's a list of some of the oldest universities in the world:

1. University of al-Qarawiyyin - Founded in 859 in Fez, Morocco.

2. University of Bologna - Founded in 1088 in Bologna, Italy.

3. University of Oxford - Founded in 1096 in Oxford, England.

4. University of Salamanca - Founded in 1134 in Salamanca, Spain.

5. University of Paris - Founded in 1150 in Paris, France.

6. University of Cambridge - Founded in 1209 in Cambridge, England.

7. University of Naples Federico II - Founded in 1224 in Naples, Italy.

8. University of Padua - Founded in 1222 in Padua, Italy.

9. University of Siena - Founded in 1240 in Siena, Italy.

10. University of Valladolid - Founded in 1241 in Valladolid, Spain.

11. University of Coimbra - Founded in 1290 in Coimbra, Portugal.

12. University of Macerata - Founded in 1290 in Macerata, Italy.

13. University of Lisbon - Founded in 1290 in Lisbon, Portugal.

14. University of Lleida - Founded in 1300 in Lleida, Spain.

15. University of Rome La Sapienza - Founded in 1303 in Rome, Italy.

16. University of Perugia - Founded in 1308 in Perugia, Italy.

17. University of Pisa - Founded in 1343 in Pisa, Italy.

18. University of Prague - Founded in 1348 in Prague, Czech Republic.

19. University of Florence - Founded in 1321 in Florence, Italy.

20. University of Erfurt - Founded in 1389 in Erfurt, Germany.

21. University of Heidelberg - Founded in 1386 in Heidelberg, Germany.

22. Jagiellonian University - Founded in 1364 in Kraków, Poland.

23. University of Vienna - Founded in 1365 in Vienna, Austria.

24. University of Pécs - Founded in 1367 in Pécs, Hungary.

25. University of Cologne - Founded in 1388 in Cologne, Germany.

26. University of Zadar - Founded in 1396 in Zadar, Croatia.

27. University of Leipzig - Founded in 1409 in Leipzig, Germany.

28. University of Würzburg - Founded in 1402 in Würzburg, Germany.

29. Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg - Founded in 1386 in Heidelberg, Germany.

30. University of Basel - Founded in 1460 in Basel, Switzerland.

31. University of Greifswald - Founded in 1456 in Greifswald, Germany.

32. University of Mainz - Founded in 1477 in Mainz, Germany.

33. University of Copenhagen - Founded in 1479 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

34. University of Glasgow - Founded in 1451 in Glasgow, Scotland.

35. University of Aberdeen - Founded in 1495 in Aberdeen, Scotland.

36. University of Santiago de Compostela - Founded in 1495 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

37. University of Tübingen - Founded in 1477 in Tübingen, Germany.

38. University of St Andrews - Founded in 1413 in St Andrews, Scotland.

39. University of Uppsala - Founded in 1477 in Uppsala, Sweden.

40. University of Rostock - Founded in 1419 in Rostock, Germany.

41. University of Groningen - Founded in 1614 in Groningen, Netherlands.

42. University of Marburg - Founded in 1527 in Marburg, Germany.

43. University of Tartu - Founded in 1632 in Tartu, Estonia.

44. University of Malta - Founded in 1592 in Valletta, Malta.

45. University of Leuven - Founded in 1425 in Leuven, Belgium.

46. University of Strasbourg - Founded in 1538 in Strasbourg, France.

47. University of Geneva - Founded in 1559 in Geneva, Switzerland.

48. University of Edinburgh - Founded in 1582 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

49. University of Lviv - Founded in 1661 in Lviv, Ukraine.

50. University of Glasgow - Founded in 1451 in Glasgow, Scotland.