Last Updated on 22 April 2024 A list of the oldest universities in the world that are still operating YearUniversityCityCountry737Ez-Zitouna UniversityTunisTunisia859Al Quaraouiyine University Fez Morocco 970 Al-Azhar University Cairo Egypt 989 Sankore Mosque and University Timbuktu Mali 1088 University of Bologna Bologna Italy 1096 University of Oxford Oxford England (UK) 1160 University of Paris Paris France 1209 University of Cambridge Cambridge England (UK) 1218 University of Salamanca Salamanca Spain 1220 University of Montpelier Montpelier France 1222 University of Padua Padua Italy 1224 University of Naples Federico II Naples Italy 1240 University of Siena Siena Italy 1241 University of Valladolid Valladolid Spain 1290 University of Coimbra Coimbra Portugal 1303 Sapienza University of Rome Rome Italy 1308 University of Perugia Perugia Italy 1315 University of Economic Sciences Tehran Iran 1348 Charles University Prague Czechia 1361 University of Pavia Pavia Italy 1364 Jagiellonian University Kraków Poland 1365 University of Vienna Vienna Austria 1367 University of Pécs Pécs Hungary 1386 University of Heidelberg Heidelberg Germany 1391 University of Ferrara Ferrara Italy 1398 Sungkyunkwan University Seoul South Korea 1404 University of Turin Turin Italy 1409 University of Leipzig Leipzig Germany 1413 University of St. Andrews St. Andrews Scotland (UK) 1419 University of Rostock Rostock Germany 1425 Univerity of Leuven Leuven Belgium 1434 University of Catania Catania Italy 1450 University of Barcelona Barcelona Spain 1451 University of Glasgow Glasgow Scotland (UK) 1453 Istanbul University Istanbul Turkey 1456 University of Greifswald Greifswald Germany 1457 University of Freiburg Freiburg Germany 1472 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Munich Germany 1477 University of Tübingen Tübingen Germany 1477 Uppsala University Uppsala Sweden 1479 Copenhagen University Copenhagen Denmark 1486 University of Basel Basel Switzerland 1495 University of Aberdeen Aberdeen Scotland (UK) 1499 Complutense University of Madrid Madrid Spain 1499 University of Valencia Valencia Spain 1551National University of San MarcosLima Peru
