What is oldest university of world?

Answer 1

Nalonda University, Bhihar

Answer 2

Al Qaraween in Morocco is the oldest university

Answer 3

Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, is generally considered to be the oldest university in the world.* It was founded roughly the same time as the city of Cairo, in 969 AD. The first lecture was delivered in 975 AD.

Like many centers of learning, Al-Azhar University was originally intended as a place of worship and religious instruction. The mosque at Al-Azhar is one of the most famous in the Muslim world, and is still considered the seat of Sunni Islamic study.

The university pioneered systems of advanced academic instruction with its hierarchy of regular instructors and visiting professors. Its history follows the turbulent rise of the Islamic Empire, replete with political revolutions and competing religious philosophies. While Al-Azhar University has a storied history of religious instruction, it also boasts a robust secular curriculum, offering advanced degrees in engineering and medicine.

As with all matters medieval, historical facts and figures are up to academic interpretation. Qarawiyyin Mosque in Fez, Morroco, has also laid claim to the title of oldest university in the world.

Europe's oldest university was founded in 1088 in the northern Italian city of Bologna. The United States's oldest university, Harvard, opened in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1636, not long after the first English colonists arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Answer 4

Egypt's University of Alexandria

Answer 5

Ancient Takshashila was renowned all over the Buddhist world as home to the world's first university (Takshashila University). It flourished during the first-fifth centuries AD (see Gandhara). Located at the junction of three major trade routes, it was of considerable economic and strategic importance.

Darius I added Taxila to the Achaemid empire (c. 518 BC).
Alexander the Great added Taxila to his burgeoning empire in 326 BC and garrisoned the town with Macedonians, after King Taxiles (named by historians for the city of his rule) had willingly submitted to him, and aided in the battle against his rival Porus. Greek rule ended in 317 BC, and was formally ceded when Seleucus I Nicator exchanged his claim to the old Macedonian provinces in India for an alliance and elephants from the new local ruler Chandragupta Maurya to aid in the conflict with Antigonas.
The Punjab then came under the rule of Chandragupta Maurya and his successors, including his grandson Asoka. Though Mauryan rule was largely productive, Taxila was briefly the center of a minor local rebellion, subdued only a few years after its onset.
Soon after Asoka's death, Taxila was conquered by the Bactrian Greeks who supposedly established a Greek city at the nearby site of Sirkap, and ruled it until about 90 BC. During this new period of Greek rule, several dynasties (like Antialcidas) likely ruled from the city as their capital. During the lulls in Greek rule, the city managed profitably on its own, managed independently and controlled by several local trade guilds, who also minted most of the cities autonomous coinage.
Next came the Scythians (c. 90 B.C.), the Parthians (c. 19 AD) and the Kushans (c. 78 AD) whose empire was eventually crushed by the White Huns (c. 460). Before the fall of these ancient invader-kings in India, Taxila had been variously a regional and national capital for many dynasties, and a true center of learning for Buddhists, Indians, and a possible population of Greeks that may have endured for centuries (the chronicles of Apollonius of Tyana, in the Life of Apollonius Tyana, demonstrate that the rulers of Taxila spoke Greek several centuries after Greek political dominance had faded).

Answer 6

The university of hard knocks

Answer 7

university of Bologna. founded in 1058

Answer 8

Nalanda in India

Answer 9

In natural sciences: "Leopoldina" in Schweinfurt Germany

Answer 10

Jondi-Shapour in Persepolis. found about 500BC