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Semmelweis University in Budapest is Hungary's oldest medical school, founded in 1769, offering medicine, dentistry and pharmacy degrees in Hungarian, English and German to a large international student body.

The national university of the Philippines, founded in 1908, a public university system offering low-cost education with an emphasis on research and public service.

The University of Ghana, founded in 1948 at Legon, Accra, is Ghana's oldest and largest university, a public research university with programmes across health, sciences, business and humanities.

The University of Ibadan is Nigeria's oldest degree-awarding institution, founded in 1948 as a college of the University of London, a public research university known for medicine, sciences and postgraduate study.

Jean Piaget University of Angola is a private university in Luanda, founded in 2000, teaching in Portuguese as part of the Instituto Piaget network.

A public research university in Beijing, founded in 1898 as the Imperial University of Peking, and a member of the C9 League.

Kuwait University, founded in 1966, is the country's public national university, with several campuses around Kuwait City teaching in Arabic and English.

Hawassa University, established in 2000 in southern Ethiopia, is a public university known for agriculture, forestry and health sciences.

Egerton University is Kenya's oldest institution of higher learning, founded in 1939 as an agricultural school in Njoro, Nakuru County, and is known for agriculture and veterinary sciences.

Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia is a private, non-profit university in Lima founded in 1961, focused on medicine, public health and biomedical research.

The University of Barcelona is a public university founded in 1450, Catalonia's largest, with a historic building in the city centre and broad programmes across health sciences, sciences, humanities, law and economics.

The University of Waterloo, founded in 1957 in Waterloo, Ontario, is a public research university widely known for co-operative education, engineering, mathematics and computer science.

Hamad Bin Khalifa University is a research-focused university in Education City, Doha, founded in 2010 by Qatar Foundation, mainly offering graduate programmes.

Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876 in Baltimore, is a private research university that introduced the German-style research university model to the United States and is closely tied to its hospital and school of public health.

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

UCLA is a public research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, founded in 1919 as the southern branch of the University of California.

The University of Canterbury, founded in 1873, is a public university in Christchurch, now based at a campus in the suburb of Ilam.

The American University of Beirut, founded in 1866, is a private, non-sectarian university on the Mediterranean seafront in Ras Beirut.

The University of Bahrain, established in 1986, is the kingdom's national public university, with its main campus in Sakhir.

Aarhus University is Denmark's second-oldest and second-largest university, founded in 1928, with a distinctive yellow-brick campus park and strengths in natural sciences, health, business and arts.

The Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences, based in Ulaanbaatar, grew out of a medical faculty founded in 1942 and is Mongolia's main university for medicine and health professions.

A public research university in Taipei, founded in 1928, with 35,043 students across 17 colleges.

The University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) is a public research university in Johannesburg, with roots in a mining school founded in 1896, known for mining engineering, health sciences, palaeoanthropology and commerce.

A public research university with campuses in Depok and Jakarta, whose origins go back to a medical school founded in 1849.

RCSI Bahrain is a private medical university in Busaiteen, founded in 2004 as a constituent university of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, offering Irish-accredited medicine and nursing degrees.