Oldest Universities in the World

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Founded
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1088; Italy
Bologna
1150; France
Paris
1167; UK
Oxford
1209; UK
Cambridge
1218; Spain
Salamanca
Founded
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1222; Italy
Padua
1224; Italy
Naples Federico II
1229; France
Toulouse
1240; Italy
Siena
1241; Spain
Valladolid
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Level 76
Dec 13, 2014
When I visited Fes in Morocco, they said the university there was founded in 859.
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Level 33
Dec 5, 2016
Yes, the universities in Fez (Qarawīyīn University) and Cairo (al-Azhar) are older (az-Zitūna is even older). Al-Azhar predates Bologna by 120 years, and Bologna was based to a great extent on the model of the Islamic university. I don't think there's any real dispute over that. The universities you list are definitely the earliest in Europe, but not the world.