Oldest universities in continuous operation
The world's oldest universities still operating — those founded as universities before 1500, and the oldest university in each country or region founded after that — with founding year, current location and the state they were founded in. One row per university.
Columns
Stable keys — use them in the API, SQL and code
| Key | Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | ID | string | List and university name. |
| university | University | string | Current name. |
| wikidata | Wikidata | entity | — |
| founded_year | Founded | year | First year given for the founding. |
| founded | Founded (as written) | string | Founding year or range with the article's qualifiers. |
| list | List | string | 'Before 1500' or 'Oldest by country after 1500'. |
| region | Region | string | Continent table for the after-1500 list. |
| current_location | Current location | string | — |
| country | Country | country | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code of the current country. |
| original_location | Original location | string | State or territory at the time of founding. |
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