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