Oldest universities still teaching — the full ranked list
The complete ranking of oldest universities still teaching, in order, with what the ranking counts and how firm the figures behind it are. Free reference, no sign-up — and the guessing game that plays the same list.
Founding date, restricted to institutions that have never stopped operating. The first two entries are older than the word 'university' and are usually left off European lists for that reason — a definition argument, not a dating one, and this list takes the earlier side of it.
The figures behind this ranking move over time, so the order is right for now rather than fixed.
100 entries, in order.
- Al-Qarawiyyin
- Al-Azhar
- Bologna
- Oxford
- Salamanca
- Cambridge
- Padua
- Naples Federico II
- Siena
- Coimbra
- Perugia
- Pisa
- Florence
- Sapienza
- Charles University
- Pavia
- Jagiellonian
- Vienna
- Pecs
- Heidelberg
- Cologne
- Erfurt
- Leipzig
- Rostock
- Leuven
- Barcelona
- St Andrews
- Poitiers
- Caen
- Bordeaux
- Glasgow
- Basel
- Greifswald
- Freiburg
- Munich
- Uppsala
- Copenhagen
- Aberdeen
- Complutense
- Valladolid
- Santiago de Compostela
- Valencia
- Ferrara
- Turin
- Catania
- Aix-Marseille
- Montpellier
- Toulouse
- Orleans
- Avignon
- Marburg
- Konigsberg
- Jena
- Leiden
- Tartu
- Vilnius
- Lund
- Turku
- Halle
- Gottingen
- Moscow State
- Edinburgh
- Trinity College Dublin
- Santo Tomas
- San Marcos
- UNAM
- Cordoba
- Harvard
- Yale
- Pennsylvania
- Princeton
- Columbia
- Brown
- Rutgers
- Dartmouth
- Nizamiyya
- Sankore
- Salerno
- Modena
- Vicenza
- Arezzo
- Macerata
- Camerino
- Angers
- Cahors
- Perpignan
- Grenoble
- Nantes
- Besancon
- Valence
- Lleida
- Huesca
- Zaragoza
- Seville
- Granada
- Oviedo
- Evora
- Wurzburg
- Ingolstadt
- Tubingen
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