Oldest Universities in the World

it was established 1601and considered oldest in asia

The First University in the world.

Earned its place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s oldest continuously operating degree-granting university. This university was the educational and spiritual center of the Muslim world.

The principal centre of Arabic literature and Sunni Islamic teachings as well as the second oldest surviving degree granting university.

Although in 1962, the university was integrated into Baghdad University in 1962, it reopened as Al-Mustansiriya Universityin in 1963.

Was established by Khwaja Nizam al-Mulk in the 11th century in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan. they were the first well organized universities in the Islamic world. and were even well-known in Europe. They were supported by the elite class and the royal establishment.

1100 BC

This is the oldest continually operating degree-granting university in Europe.

There is no clear date of establishment but teachings already began at oxford in 1096. the university developed quickly in 1167 when English students were banned from attendance from the university of Paris by King Henry II.

The University of Cambridge is the second oldest university in UK as well as the English speaking world. Was established as a competing university when some scholars had some dispute with the oxford university.

it is built in 1960

The university was founded in 1579 as the Jesuit Academy (College) of Vilnius (Vilna, Wilno). It was the third oldest university in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Soon after the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, it was forced to suspend its operation in the aftermath of the November Uprising (from 1832 to 1919). In the aftermath of World War I the University saw failed attempts to restart it by Lithuania (December 1918) and invading Soviet forces (March 1919), and finally resumed operations as the University of Stefan Batory in Poland (August 1918), a period followed by another short Soviet occupation in 1920, and the less than two year period of the Republic of Central Lithuania, annexed by Poland in 1922. Following Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939, the University was briefly administered by the Lithuanian authorities (from October 1939), and then after Soviet annexation of Lithuania (June 1940), punctuated by a period of German occupation after German invasion of the Soviet Union (1941–1944), administrated as Vilnius State University by of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. After Lithuania regained its independence in 1990, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it resumed its status as one of the prominent universities in Lithuania as Vilnius University.

Est. 1450 as a school of theology, phylosophia and psychology

The second oldest university in the Czech Republic with a total of 7 faculties.

1864

it is build at 1998