where is World's first university established ?

Answer 1

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.


It is also said that Nalanda University and Takshashila University, both ancient schools located in India, predate Al-Azhar University.

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Nalanda, Bihar, India

Answer 5

That would be Greece. Plato's Academy, to be specific. However, this is generally a loose application of the term "University." Perhaps you mean to enquire as to where the first predecessor of the modern university might be located, which would be the University at Bologna. Places like Al-Azhar are all well and good, however they do not factor into the modern tradition of "Universities," being an off-shoot of the earlier traditions that did not then go on to affect the modern institutions world-wide. Bologna, on the other hand, has.

Answer 6

This is unknown, but could have been as long as 4000 years ago in China. But the oldest still in existence today is the University of Balogna (1088 AD). University of Paris (1150 AD) Oxford (1167 AD)

Answer 7

If we consider university as a corporation of students, then Plato's Academy in Athens is the first historically documented university. The original latin word "universitas", first used at the time of reniewed interested in Classical Greek and Roman tradition, tried to reflect this feature of Academy. If we consider university simply as a higher education institution, then it is Shangyang, which originated before the 21st century BC in China.

Answer 8

Al-Zaytuna Mosk/University in Tunisia was established 703 C.E. It opened 250 years before Al-Azhar ( which is not oldest university).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaytuna_Mosque

Answer 9

The University of al-Karaouine or al-Qarawiyyin (Arabic: جامعة القرويين‎) is a university located in Fes, Morocco. The al-Karaouine University was founded by Fatima al-Fihri in 859 with an associated school, or madrasa, which subsequently became one of the leading spiritual and educational centers of the historic Muslim world.

Answer 10

the University of Al-Karaouine located in Fes, Morocco (founded in 859 by Fatima al-Fihri) is considered the oldest continuously-operating degree-granting university in the world by the Guiness Book of World Records.
Al-Azhar University (founded in 970-972) is the world’s second oldest surviving degree-granting institute.

Answer 11

nalanda university in india that was some 1000 to 2000 b.c years ago