The world's oldest 10 universities, Italy, 4 seats, Egypt ranked first

Today we work together to inventory the world's first 10 colleges and universities built, old age, beyond many people's imagination, take a look at it.

University of Bologna

University of Bologna is Italy's prestigious research-based comprehensive university, is the oldest university in the West, Europe's first four major cultural centers, has a high academic prestige and influence. And the University of Paris, Oxford University and the University of Salamanca and said the four elite European schools, known as Europe's "mother of the University," is the third university in the history of the world. Founded in 1088, it has a history of more than 900 years.
Oxford university

Oxford was first established in 1167 as the oldest college in the English-speaking world and the second oldest institution of higher education in the world. Oxford University emerged a group of leading science and technology leaders to lead the era, cultivating a large number of pioneering artists and heads of state, including 27 British Prime Ministers and dozens of heads of state and political and business leaders from all over the world.
University of Paris

Paris University, one of the oldest in Europe, is located in the French capital of Paris, formerly the Sorbonne Seminary dating back to 1257, but dates back to 1150-1606 as a university founded by a Catholic monk. Revoked in 1793 by the influence of the Napoleonic education reform and rebuilt in 1896. After the French student boom in 1968, Paris was split into 13 separate universities.

Cambridge University

Cambridge University, located in Cambridge, England, is a world-renowned public research university, using college federal system, is one of the G5 super-elite universities. Cambridge University is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the UK. The school was formerly known as the Scholar Association founded in 1209 and is the second oldest university in the English-speaking world.
Padua University

Padua University is one of the oldest European top universities, was founded in 1222, in order to advocate and defend academic and teaching freedom for the mind. Many professions ranked first in Italy. Among the two reports to date released by the Italian university and research institutes National Assessment Agency, they have been consistently ranked as "the universities with the highest quality research results" and the number of university academic articles quoted in the top 10% of European top universities.
Naples Federico II University

Naples Federico II University, is Naples, Italy's oldest university institution. The university was founded in 1224 by the ancient Roman emperor and the king of Sicily, Naples. Initially specifically for the training of government personnel and construction, the political and judicial academic tradition is more prominent. The school is Italy's first national university, which is enough to make him one of the oldest universities in Europe.
Siena University

Founded on December 26, 1240, Siena University is one of the oldest universities in Italy and the world. It is based on three older colleges (law school, liberal arts college and medical school) Up Located in the historic city of Siena in Italy, is a city university. Among all the public university rankings in 2002, Siena University ranked 3rd in literature, 5th in biology, 8th in commerce and economics, 11th in pharmacy, 12th in law and 12th in medicine.
Coimbra University

Coimbra University, a public university in Coimbra, Portugal, is the oldest university in Portugal and one of the oldest in the world. Founded in 1290, Coimbra University is the oldest university in Portugal and a historic institution of higher education on the Iberian Peninsula. It was founded only 70 years later than the University of Salamanca, the first university in Spain.
University of Salamanca

University of Salamanca is the oldest public university in Spain and one of the oldest colleges in the world. The University of Salamanca is known for its humanities and social sciences and its strength in other fields like natural sciences should not be underestimated. Starting from the founding of the school, after nearly eight centuries of baptism, the University of Salamanca has been one of Europe's major academic centers, one of the four elite European schools, and the Spaniards are proud.
Al-Azhar University

Al-Azhar University is one of the oldest colleges in the world. It was founded in 972 and is the earliest university in the world after Carouing University. She is ahead of Bologna University, Oxford University and University of Cambridge Nearly 200 years, is the ancient Islamic higher education in Egypt. Al-Azhar University is Egypt's second largest comprehensive university, second only to Cairo University, QS ranked the world's top 750.