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Top 100 Oldest Universities in the World

Sunday, April 19, 2026

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A hand-ranked Top 100 for this topic, ordered from the most obvious names near #1 to the hidden gems near #100.

This list was researched and ranked by hand for Centumth. Entries near #1 are the names almost everyone thinks of first. Entries near #100 are true, a little obscure, and still fair if you think sideways. Sources below are the starting point — the final order can include small editorial calls so the daily puzzle stays balanced.

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The full Top 100

  1. #1University of Al Quaraouiyine
  2. #2Al-Azhar University
  3. #3University of Bologna
  4. #4University of Oxford
  5. #5University of Salamanca
  6. #6University of Paris
  7. #7University of Cambridge
  8. #8University of Padua
  9. #9University of Naples Federico II
  10. #10University of Toulouse
  11. #11University of Siena
  12. #12University of Valladolid
  13. #13University of Murcia
  14. #14University of Coimbra
  15. #15University of Macerata
  16. #16Complutense University of Madrid
  17. #17Sapienza University of Rome
  18. #18University of Perugia
  19. #19University of Florence
  20. #20University of Camerino
  21. #21University of Pisa
  22. #22Charles University
  23. #23University of Pavia
  24. #24Jagiellonian University
  25. #25University of Vienna
  26. #26University of Pecs
  27. #27Heidelberg University
  28. #28University of Cologne
  29. #29University of Ferrara
  30. #30University of Zadar
  31. #31University of Würzburg
  32. #32University of Turin
  33. #33University of Leipzig
  34. #34University of St Andrews
  35. #35University of Rostock
  36. #36KU Leuven
  37. #37University of Poitiers
  38. #38University of Catania
  39. #39University of Bordeaux
  40. #40University of Barcelona
  41. #41University of Glasgow
  42. #42University of Greifswald
  43. #43University of Freiburg
  44. #44University of Basel
  45. #45Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  46. #46University of Tübingen
  47. #47Uppsala University
  48. #48University of Copenhagen
  49. #49University of Genoa
  50. #50University of Aberdeen
  51. #51University of Santiago de Compostela
  52. #52University of Valencia
  53. #53Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
  54. #54University of Seville
  55. #55University of Urbino
  56. #56Philipps University of Marburg
  57. #57University of Granada
  58. #58University of Strasbourg
  59. #59University of Zaragoza
  60. #60University of Messina
  61. #61National University of San Marcos
  62. #62National Autonomous University of Mexico
  63. #63University of Geneva
  64. #64University of Évora
  65. #65University of Lille
  66. #66University of Sassari
  67. #67Leiden University
  68. #68Vilnius University
  69. #69University of Edinburgh
  70. #70University of Graz
  71. #71Trinity College Dublin
  72. #72University of San Carlos
  73. #73University of Santo Tomas
  74. #74National University of Córdoba
  75. #75University of Groningen
  76. #76University of Salzburg
  77. #77Pontifical Xavierian University
  78. #78University of Tartu
  79. #79University of Amsterdam
  80. #80Trnava University
  81. #81Utrecht University
  82. #82Harvard University
  83. #83University of Helsinki
  84. #84University of Bamberg
  85. #85University of Rosario
  86. #86University of Kiel
  87. #87Lund University
  88. #88University of Zagreb
  89. #89University of Innsbruck
  90. #90San Cristobal of Huamanga University
  91. #91Yale University
  92. #92University of Wroclaw
  93. #93Saint Petersburg State University
  94. #94University of Havana
  95. #95University of Göttingen
  96. #96University of Pennsylvania
  97. #97FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
  98. #98Princeton University
  99. #99Columbia University
  100. #100Moscow State University

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