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| • | This is a list of the oldest extant universities in the world. To be listed on this page, an educational institution must satisfy the definition of a university at the time of founding; it must have been founded before 1500; and it must have been operational without a significant interruption ever since (although many of the Universities listed have been closed for periods of one or two years at a time due to mitigating circumstances such as plagues or strikes).
Note that because the awarding of academic degrees for advanced studies was historically a European custom, and the modern definition of a university includes the ability to grant degrees, the oldest institutions of higher learning that have always satisfied the modern definition of a university were in Europe. If, however, the definition is broadened to include ancient institutions that did not originally grant degrees but now do, then some non-European institutes predate the early European ones (for example, Nalanda University had been established by the 5th century BC, Nanjing University founded in 258 in China, University of Karueein founded in 859 in Morocco, and Al-Azhar University founded in 988 in Egypt).
Finally, even within the purview of European universities, there is still some minor, albeit good-natured controversy over who was really "first". The University of Bologna, while it predates the University of Paris, was a university organized by students who then sought out tutors while the latter institution was organized by faculty who then solicited students. Some (especially at Paris) still quibble over which began as a "genuine" university, but for all intents and purposes, it is generally accepted that the University of Bologna came first.
Source: [wikipedia: list of oldest universities in continuous operation]
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