Top 10 oldest universities in continuous operation
Daily Tens #28 · Monday, August 10, 2026 · Ranked by year of founding
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The answers
- 1 University of Bologna
- 2 University of Oxford
- 3 University of Salamanca
- 4 University of Cambridge
- 5 University of Padua
- 6 University of Naples Federico II
- 7 University of Siena
- 8 University of Coimbra
- 9 University of Macerata
- 10 University of Valladolid
Ranking method
- Metric
- Year of founding
- Data through
- All-time
- Source
- Wikipedia: List of oldest universities in continuous operation
- Notes
- Restricted to universities in the Western tradition that have operated continuously since founding. Older institutions of other kinds exist.
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