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The University of Bologna, founded in 1088, is widely considered the oldest university in continuous operation, a large public multi-campus university in Emilia-Romagna with programmes in every major discipline.

Cairo University

Cairo University is a public university in Egypt, founded in 1908 as the Egyptian University, with its main campus in Giza on the west bank of the Nile.

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.

The University of Zurich, founded in 1833, is Switzerland's largest university, a public research university with seven faculties including medicine, law, economics and natural sciences.

Ghent University is a public research university in Ghent, Flanders, founded in 1817, with eleven faculties and particular strength in life sciences, veterinary medicine and engineering.

Alexandria University is a large public university in Alexandria, Egypt, founded in 1938 as a branch of Fouad I University and independent since 1942, with faculties across medicine, engineering, sciences and humanities.

The University of Zambia, founded in 1966 in Lusaka, is Zambia's oldest and largest public university.

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.

University College Dublin, Ireland's largest university, is a public research university on a large campus at Belfield in south Dublin, with origins in the Catholic University of Ireland founded in 1854.

Jordan University of Science and Technology, founded in 1986 near Irbid, is a public university focused on medicine, engineering and applied sciences, popular with international medical students.

University of Lisbon

The University of Lisbon is Portugal's largest university, formed in 2013 by merging the former Technical University and University of Lisbon, and includes Instituto Superior Técnico and ISEG.

The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is Scotland's largest university, with nearly 50,000 students from more than 156 countries.

The National University of Costa Rica (UNA), founded in 1973 in Heredia, is a public university known for environmental sciences, veterinary medicine, education and the arts.

Addis Ababa University, founded in 1950, is Ethiopia's oldest and largest university, with campuses across the capital and strong programmes in medicine, engineering and social sciences.

Sokoine University of Agriculture in Morogoro, established in 1984, is a Tanzanian university for agriculture, veterinary medicine and forestry.

UNAM is Mexico's largest public university, based in Mexico City, whose Ciudad Universitaria campus is a UNESCO World Heritage Site; it offers low-cost study across nearly every discipline.

LMU Munich is a public research university founded in 1472 in Ingolstadt and based in Munich since 1826, with low semester fees and no tuition for most programmes.

Universitas Gadjah Mada is a public research university in Yogyakarta founded in 1949, one of Indonesia's oldest and largest universities, with faculties across medicine, engineering, agriculture, social sciences and humanities.

The University of Nairobi is Kenya's oldest university, a public institution that grew out of the Royal Technical College of 1956 and was established as a university in 1970.

The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, founded in 1925, is the largest university in Greece, with a central campus in Thessaloniki and faculties across engineering, health sciences, sciences and humanities.

Cornell University, founded in 1865 in Ithaca, New York, is a private Ivy League research university and New York State's land-grant university, with a medical school in New York City.

A public research university in Serdang, founded in 1931 as a school of agriculture, with programmes in agriculture, engineering, business and the applied sciences.

The Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, founded in 1676, is Guatemala's only public university and one of the oldest in the Americas.