| År | Universitet oprettet |
|---|---|
| 970 | Kairo (1908). |
| 1065 | Parma. |
| 1160 | Bologna. |
| 1160 | Paris. |
| 1167 | Oxford. |
| 1180 | Montepellier. |
| 1209 | Cambridge. |
| 1222 | Padua. |
| 1224 | Neapel. |
| 1227 | Salamanca. |
| 1229 | Toulouse. |
| 1303 | Roma. |
| 1321 | Florens. |
| 1339 | Grenoble. |
| 1345 | Pisa. |
| 1347 | Prag. |
| 1361 | Pavia. |
| 1364 | Krakov. |
| 1365 | Wien. |
| 1386 | Heidelberg. |
| 1390 | Coimbra. |
| 1404 | Turin. |
| 1409 | Lepzig. |
| 1409 | Marseilles-Aix. |
| 1411 | St. Andrews. |
| 1419 | Rostock. |
| 1425 | Louvain. |
| 1441 | Bordeux. |
| 1450 | Barcelona. |
| 1451 | Glasgow. |
| 1457 | Freiburg. |
| 1460 | Basle. |
| 1472 | München. |
| 1477 | Tübingen. |
| 1477 | Uppsala. |
| 1479 | København. |
| 1492 | Caen. |
| 1494 | Aberdeen. |
| 1502 | Sevilla. |
| 1508 | Madrid. |
| 1527 | Marburg. |
| 1537 | Lausanne. |
| 1544 | Königsberg. |
| 1558 | Jena. |
| 1559 | Genova. |
| 1562 | Lille. |
| 1567 | Strasbourg. |
| 1572 | Nancy. |
| 1579 | Vilna. |
| 1582 | Würzburg. |
| 1583 | Edingburgh. |
| 1586 | Graz. |
| 1591 | Dublin. |
| 1596 | Ljubljana. |
| 1607 | Giessen-Marburg. |
| 1614 | Groningen. |
| 1632 | Amsterdam. |
| 1632 | Tartu. |
| 1635 | Budapest. |
| 1636 | Utrecht. |
| 1661 | Lvow. |
| 1665 | Kiel. |
| 1666 | Lund. |
| 1669 | Zagreb. |
| 1694 | Leipzig-Halle-Wittenberg. |
| 1702 | Wroclaw. |
| 1737 | Göttingen. |
| 1756 | Moskva. |
| 1804 | Kazan. |
| 1804 | Kharov. |
| 1807 | Odessa. |
| 1809 | Berlin. |
| 1811 | Oslo. |
| 1817 | Liège. |
| 1818 | Bonn. |
| 1819 | Leningrad. |
| 1828 | Helsinki. |
| 1832 | Newcastle-Durham. |
| 1833 | Zürich. |
| 1834 | Brüssel-Louvain. |
| 1834 | Bern. |
| 1834 | Kijev. |
| 1836 | London. |
| 1837 | Athen. |
| 1845 | Belfast. |
| 1846 | Beirut. |
| 1850 | Manchester. |
| 1862 | Riga. |
| 1863 | Belgrad. |
| 1864 | Bucuresti. |
| 1869 | Rostov. |
| 1878 | Stockholm. |
| 1879 | Alger. |
| 1883 | Istanbul. |
| 1893 | Cardiff. |
| 1896 | Lyon. |
| 1900 | Birmingham. |
| 1900 | Bristol. |
| 1903 | Liverpool. |
| 1904 | Leeds. |
| 1905 | Sheffield. |
| 1908 | Kairo. |
| 1909 | Sofia. |
| 1911 | Lisboa. |
| 1914 | Frankfurt. |
| 1916 | Warsawa. |
| 1918 | Dniepropetrovsk. |
| 1918 | Gorkij. |
| 1918 | Jerusalem. |
| 1919 | Brno. |
| 1919 | Hamburg. |
| 1919 | Voronesj. |
| 1920 | Baku. |
| 1920 | Jerevan. |
| 1920 | Kaunas. |
| 1920 | Tblisi. |
| 1923 | Milano. |
| 1923 | Minsk. |
| 1925 | Ankara. |
| 1925 | Reading. |
| 1935 | Teheran. |
| 1952 | Vestprem. |
| 1953 | Magdeburg (flere institutioner samles i 1993). |
| 1958 | Bagdad. |
Kilde: J.D. Bernal: "Videnskabenms historie", bind 2, s. 671. Pax forlag a/s. Oslo 1978.
Se også kort side 74 i "Teknikkens hvornår skete det", Politikens forlag 1973.
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