Education in terms of literacy goes back many thousands of years. University education as we know it today also goes back many hundreds of years some of them even more than a millenium old. Here is a list of the oldest universities that survive and some of them even flourish till date.
Al-Quaraouiyine University in Morocco – built 859
Bologna University in Italy – built 1088
Oxford University in UK – built 1096
Salamanca University in Spain – built 1134
Cambridge University – built 1209
University of Padova – built 1222
University of Naples, Italy – built 1224
By Jeffmatt at English Wikipedia – Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., Public Domain, Link
University of Toulouse in France – built 1229
University of Sienna in Italy – built 1240
University of Valladolid in Spain – build 1241
University of Murcia in Spain – built 1272
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