What is the name of the oldest university of the world which is still runnig?

What is the name of the oldest university of the world which is still runnig? Name of the univercity, Place, Country...

What is the name of the oldest university of the world which is still runnig?
Al-Azhar University in Cairo Egypt. It was established in 970 A.D.
Reply:It is the University of Bologna, Italy – Which started teaching from 10th Century and recognized as University 1088





The institution that we today call the University began to take shape in Bologna at the end of the eleventh century, when masters of Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic began to devote themselves to the law. In the nineteenth century a committee of historians, led by Giosuè Carducci, attributed the birth of the University to the year 1088.





The first recorded scholars were Pepone and Irnerio, the latter of whom was defined by the former as "lucerna iuris". With the advice of four doctores thought to be their pupils, in 1158 Federico I promulgated the Constitutio Habita, in which the University was legally declared a place where research could develop independently from any other power. (from UofB website)





Some others are:


* University of Paris, France – recognized as University 1150 (possibly the first if you note the first written reference to the UofB mentioned above)


* University of Oxford, England – teaching from 1096 recognised as University 1167
Reply:Nalanda University in India.
Reply:It differs from list to list. Vikpedia says Bolonga, answers.com say


Fes, Morocco University of Al Karaouine Considered to be the "oldest existing educational institution in the world".[1][2] (Shishi Middle School, China, claims to have been formed in 143 BC and so would be the longest running educational institution, making the University of Al Karaouine the oldest University in the world.)


988 Cairo, Egypt Al-Azhar University Considered by most Sunni Muslims to be one of the most prestigious schools of Islamic learning


1088 Bologna, Italy University of Bologna


1150 Paris, France University of Paris Now split among several autonomous universities


1167 Oxford, England University of Oxford Exact date uncertain, founded before 1167


1175 Modena, Italy University of





Yahoo says Al Azhaar in Cairo Egypt


As with all matters medieval, historical facts and figures are up to academic interpretation. Qarawiyyin Mosque in Fez, Morroco, has also laid claim to the title of oldest university in the world.





Europe's oldest university was founded in 1088 in the northern Italian city of Bologna. The United States's oldest university, Harvard, opened in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1636, not long after the first English colonists arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony





Discover syas: Egypt


The legendary university flourished 2,300 years ago when Alexandria was the intellectual and cultural hub of the world. While in the city, Archimedes crafted a water pump of a type still used today; Euclid organized and developed the rules of geometry; Hypsicles divided the zodiac into 360 equal arcs; and Eratosthenes calculated the diameter of Earth. Other scholars in the city are believed to have edited the works of Homer and produced the Septuagint, the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament. “This is the oldest university ever found in the world,” Grzegorz Majcherek, who directed the dig under the auspices of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, told the Associated Press. “This is the first material evidence of the existence of academic life in Alexandria.”





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