Medieval Universities
Arranged Chronologically by Founding dates
Adapted from http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/OriginUniversities.html
University of Salerno |
9th C AD |
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy |
1088 AD |
University of Paris, Paris, France (now split between several autonomous universities) |
C 1150 |
University of Oxford, Oxford, England |
Before 1167 |
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, |
C 1209 |
University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain |
1218 |
University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France |
1220 |
University of Padua, Padua, Italy |
1222 |
University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy |
1224 |
University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France |
1229 |
University of Siena, Siena, Italy |
1240 |
University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal |
1290 |
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, |
1293 |
University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain |
1300 |
University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy |
1303 |
University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy |
1343 |
Charles University of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic |
1348 |
University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy |
1361 |
Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland |
1364 |
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria |
1365 |
University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary |
1367 |
Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany |
1386 |
University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy |
1391 |
University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany |
1402 |
University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany |
1409 |
University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, |
1412 |
University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany |
1419 |
Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium |
1425 |
University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France |
1431 |
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland |
1451 |
University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey |
1453 |
Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany |
1456 |
Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany |
1457 |
Basel University, Basel, Switzerland |
1460 |
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden |
1477 |
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany |
1477 |
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, |
1479 |
University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland |
1494 |
University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain, |
1495 |