List: Universities founded before 1815

Bologna 1088
Vicenza 1204
Palencia 1208
Paris c.1208
Cambridge 1209
Arezzo 1215
Salamanca c.1218
Montpellier c.1220
Padua 1222
Naples 1224
Vercelli 1228
Toulouse 1229
Oxford 1231
Orleans 1235
Siena 1246
Piacenza 1248
Sorbonne 1253
Lisbon 1290
Valladolid c.1293
Lérida 1300
Rome 1303
Avignon 1303
Perugia 1308
Treviso 1318
Cahors 1332
Angers 1337
Grenoble 1339
Pisa 1343
Prague 1348
Florence 1349
Perpignan 1350
Huesca 1354
Pavia 1361
Cracow 1364
Vienna 1365
Orange 1365
Pécs 1367
Heidelberg 1385
Köln (Cologne) 1388
Erfurt 1392 (web)
Buda 1389
Ferrara 1391
Wurzburg 1402
Turin 1404

Leipzig 1409
Aix-en-Provence 1409
St. Andrews 1411
Rostock 1419
Dole 1422
Louvain 1426
Poitiers 1431
Caen 1432
Bordeaux 1441
Catania 1444
Barcelona 1450
Glasgow 1451
Valence/France 1452
Greifswald 1456
Basel 1460
Freiburg/Breisgau 1460
Nantes 1463
Pozsony 1465
Bourges 1465
Venice 1470
Saragossa 1474
Ingolstadt 1472
Trier 1473
Ofen 1475
Mainz 1477
Tubingen 1477
Uppsala 1477
Copenhagen 1479
Palma 1483
Sigüenza 1489
Aberdeen 1494
Alcalá 1499
Valencia 1501
Wittenberg 1502
Seville 1505
Frankfurt/Oder 1506
Marburg 1527
Granada 1533
Königsberg 1544
Messina 1548
Nat. Univ. of Mexico 1551
Nat. Univ. of San Marcos de Lima 1551
Dillingen 1554

Jena 1558
Nat. Univ. of Bogota 1573
Bern 1574
Oviedo 1574
Leyden 1575
Helmstedt 1576-1809
Warsaw 1576
Vilna 1578
Olmütz 1581
Edinburgh 1582
Herborn 1584
Graz 1585
Trinity College (Dublin) 1591
Gießen 1607
Nat. Univ. of Cordoba (Argentina) 1613
Groningen 1614
Paderborn 1614
Nat. Univ. of Bolivia 1621
Rinteln 1621
Straßburg 1621
Altdorf 1622
Salzburg 1622
Madrid 1623
Dorpat 1632
Kassel 1632
Utrecht 1634
Budapest 1635
Harvard College 1636
Bamberg 1648
Duisburg 1655
Durham 1657
Kiel 1665
Innsbruck 1669
San Carlos Univ. of Guatemala 1676
Halle 1694
William and Mary 1693
Saint John's College 1696
Yale College 1701
Breslau 1702
Dijon 1722
Central Univ. of Caracas 1725
Central Univ. of Havana 1728
Fulda 1734

Göttingen 1736
Central Univ. of Chile 1738
Univ. of Pennsylvania 1740
Erlangen 1743
College of New Jersey (Princeton) 1746
King’s College (Columbia, 1784) 1754
Moscow 1755
Bützow 1758
Brown Univ. 1764
Queen's College (Rutger's, 1825) 1766
Central Univ. of Ecuador 1769
Dartmouth College 1769
Univ. of Malta 1769
Dickinson College 1773
Münster 1773
Zagreb 1776
Palermo 1779
Stuttgart 1781
Lemberg 1784
Univ. of Georgia 1785
Bonn 1786-98, 1818
Franklin & Marshall College 1787
Georgetown Univ. 1789
Univ. of Vermont 1791
Hamilton-Oneida Academy (Hamilton College, 1812) 1793
Williams College 1793
Bowdoin College 1794
Univ. of Tennessee 1794
Union College 1795
Univ. of North Carolina 1795
Middlebury College 1800
Oslo 1801
Univ. of South Carolina 1801
U.S. Military Acad. 1802
Kazan 1804
Kharkov 1804
Univ. of Maryland 1807
Lyons 1808
Miami Univ. (Ohio) 1809
Berlin 1810
Nat. Univ. of Nicaragua 1811
Colby College 1813