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Harvard University
- Country: United States
- Year: 1636
- Founder: Massachusetts legislature
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Stanford University
- Country: United States
- Year: 1885
- Founder: Leland and Jane Stanford
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University of Cambridge
- Country: United Kingdom
- Year: 1209
- Founder: Unknown (established by scholars from Oxford)
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University of Oxford
- Country: United Kingdom
- Year: c. 1096
- Founder: Unknown (evolved over time, no single founder)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Country: United States
- Year: 1861
- Founder: William Barton Rogers
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California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
- Country: United States
- Year: 1891
- Founder: Amos G. Throop
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University of Chicago
- Country: United States
- Year: 1890
- Founder: John D. Rockefeller
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Columbia University
- Country: United States
- Year: 1754
- Founder: George II of Great Britain
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Princeton University
- Country: United States
- Year: 1746
- Founder: New Light Presbyterians
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Yale University
- Country: United States
- Year: 1701
- Founder: Congregationalist ministers
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University of California, Berkeley
- Country: United States
- Year: 1868
- Founder: California legislature
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Imperial College London
- Country: United Kingdom
- Year: 1907
- Founder: Royal Charter
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University of Toronto
- Country: Canada
- Year: 1827
- Founder: John Strachan
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University College London (UCL)
- Country: United Kingdom
- Year: 1826
- Founder: Jeremy Bentham (inspired the founders)
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University of Pennsylvania
- Country: United States
- Year: 1740
- Founder: Benjamin Franklin
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ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
- Country: Switzerland
- Year: 1855
- Founder: Swiss Confederation
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University of Edinburgh
- Country: United Kingdom
- Year: 1582
- Founder: Edinburgh Town Council
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University of Michigan
- Country: United States
- Year: 1817
- Founder: Augustus Woodward
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Johns Hopkins University
- Country: United States
- Year: 1876
- Founder: Johns Hopkins
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University of Tokyo
- Country: Japan
- Year: 1877
- Founder: Meiji government
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University of Melbourne
- Country: Australia
- Year: 1853
- Founder: Hugh Childers (inspired the founders)
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University of Sydney
- Country: Australia
- Year: 1850
- Founder: Charles Nicholson and William Wentworth
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University of British Columbia
- Country: Canada
- Year: 1908
- Founder: British Columbia legislature
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University of Hong Kong
- Country: Hong Kong
- Year: 1911
- Founder: Governor Frederick Lugard
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University of Queensland
- Country: Australia
- Year: 1909
- Founder: Queensland Parliament
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McGill University
- Country: Canada
- Year: 1821
- Founder: James McGill
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University of New South Wales
- Country: Australia
- Year: 1949
- Founder: New South Wales government
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University of Manchester
- Country: United Kingdom
- Year: 2004 (merger)
- Founder: Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST
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King’s College London
- Country: United Kingdom
- Year: 1829
- Founder: Arthur Wellesley and King George IV
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Australian National University
- Country: Australia
- Year: 1946
- Founder: Australian Parliament
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University of Glasgow
- Country: United Kingdom
- Year: 1451
- Founder: King James II of Scotland
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University of Copenhagen
- Country: Denmark
- Year: 1479
- Founder: King Christian I of Denmark
- University of Southern California
- Country: United States
- Year: 1880
- Founder: Robert M. Widney
- University of Texas at Austin
- Country: United States
- Year: 1883
- Founder: Texas legislature
- University of Amsterdam
- Country: Netherlands
- Year: 1632
- Founder: City of Amsterdam
- University of Alberta
- Country: Canada
- Year: 1908
- Founder: Alexander Cameron Rutherford
- University of Auckland
- Country: New Zealand
- Year: 1883
- Founder: Auckland University College
- University of Bristol
- Country: United Kingdom
- Year: 1876
- Founder: John Percival
- University of Birmingham
- Country: United Kingdom
- Year: 1900
- Founder: Joseph Chamberlain
- Boston University
- Country: United States
- Year: 1839
- Founder: Methodists
- New York University
- Country: United States
- Year: 1831
- Founder: Albert Gallatin
- Purdue University
- Country: United States
- Year: 1869
- Founder: John Purdue
- University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
- Country: United States
- Year: 1919
- Founder: California legislature
- University of Warwick
- Country: United Kingdom
- Year: 1965
- Founder: UK government
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Country: United States
- Year: 1848
- Founder: Wisconsin legislature
- Lund University
- Country: Sweden
- Year: 1666
- Founder: King Charles X Gustav of Sweden
- Delft University of Technology
- Country: Netherlands
- Year: 1842
- Founder: King William II of the Netherlands
- University of Geneva
- Country: Switzerland
- Year: 1559
- Founder: John Calvin
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Country: United States
- Year: 1867
- Founder: Illinois General Assembly
- University of Helsinki
- Country: Finland
- Year: 1640
- Founder: Count Per Brahe the Younger
- Kyoto University
- Country: Japan
- Year: 1897
- Founder: Meiji government
- University of Washington
- Country: United States
- Year: 1861
- Founder: Washington Territorial Legislature
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Country: United States
- Year: 1789
- Founder: North Carolina General Assembly
- University of Queensland
- Country: Australia
- Year: 1909
- Founder: Queensland Parliament
- University of Maryland, College Park
- Country: United States
- Year: 1856
- Founder: Charles Benedict Calvert
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University of Zurich
- Country: Switzerland
- Year: 1833
- Founder: Canton of Zurich
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University of Oslo
- Country: Norway
- Year: 1811
- Founder: King Frederick VI of Denmark
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University of Pittsburgh
- Country: United States
- Year: 1787
- Founder: Hugh Henry Brackenridge
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University of Montreal
- Country: Canada
- Year: 1878
- Founder: Montreal’s Sulpician Order
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University of Virginia
- Country: United States
- Year: 1819
- Founder: Thomas Jefferson
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University of Colorado Boulder
- Country: United States
- Year: 1876
- Founder: Colorado General Assembly
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University of Adelaide
- Country: Australia
- Year: 1874
- Founder: Walter Watson Hughes
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University of Helsinki
- Country: Finland
- Year: 1640
- Founder: Count Per Brahe the Younger
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University of Göttingen
- Country: Germany
- Year: 1734
- Founder: King George II of Great Britain
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KU Leuven
- Country: Belgium
- Year: 1425
- Founder: Pope Martin V
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University of Leeds
- Country: United Kingdom
- Year: 1904
- Founder: Edward VII
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Uppsala University
- Country: Sweden
- Year: 1477
- Founder: Sten Sture the Elder
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University of Minnesota
- Country: United States
- Year: 1851
- Founder: Minnesota Territorial Legislature
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University of Tübingen
- Country: Germany
- Year: 1477
- Founder: Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg
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University of Florida
- Country: United States
- Year: 1853
- Founder: James Henry Roper
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Brown University
- Country: United States
- Year: 1764
- Founder: Brown family (Nicholas Brown, Jr.)
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University of Sydney
- Country: Australia
- Year: 1850
- Founder: Charles Nicholson and William Wentworth
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University of Freiburg
- Country: Germany
- Year: 1457
- Founder: Albert VI, Duke of Austria
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Durham University
- Country: United Kingdom
- Year: 1832
- Founder: Act of Parliament
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University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
- Country: United States
- Year: 1960
- Founder: University of California Regents
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University of Exeter
- Country: United Kingdom
- Year: 1955
- Founder: University College of the South West of England
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Eindhoven University of Technology
- Country: Netherlands
- Year: 1956
- Founder: Dutch government
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University of Auckland
- Country: New Zealand
- Year: 1883
- Founder: Auckland University College
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Leiden University
- Country: Netherlands
- Year: 1575
- Founder: William I of Orange
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University of Notre Dame
- Country: United States
- Year: 1842
- Founder: Edward Sorin
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Heidelberg University
- Country: Germany
- Year: 1386
- Founder: Rupert I, Elector Palatine
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University of York
- Country: United Kingdom
- Year: 1963
- Founder: Lord James of Rusholme
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University of Reading
- Country: United Kingdom
- Year: 1926
- Founder: King George V
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University of Sheffield
- Country: United Kingdom
- Year: 1905
- Founder: Merging of three institutions
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University of Basel
- Country: Switzerland
- Year: 1460
- Founder: Pope Pius II
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University of Warsaw
- Country: Poland
- Year: 1816
- Founder: Emperor Alexander I of Russia
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University of Bern
- Country: Switzerland
- Year: 1834
- Founder: Canton of Bern
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University of Göttingen
- Country: Germany
- Year: 1734
- Founder: King George II of Great Britain
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University of Aberdeen
- Country: United Kingdom
- Year: 1495
- Founder: William Elphinstone
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University of Vienna
- Country: Austria
- Year: 1365
- Founder: Duke Rudolph IV
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University of Ottawa
- Country: Canada
- Year: 1848
- Founder: Joseph-Bruno Guigues
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University of Groningen
- Country: Netherlands
- Year: 1614
- Founder: Province of Groningen
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Cardiff University
- Country: United Kingdom
- Year: 1883
- Founder: Cardiff City Council
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Sorbonne University
- Country: France
- Year: 1257
- Founder: Robert de Sorbon
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University of St Andrews
- Country: United Kingdom
- Year: 1413
- Founder: Henry Wardlaw
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University of Victoria
- Country: Canada
- Year: 1963
- Founder: British Columbia Provincial Government
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Monash University
- Country: Australia
- Year: 1958
- Founder: State of Victoria
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University of Pretoria
- Country: South Africa
- Year: 1908
- Founder: South African government
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Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Country: Russia
- Year: 1755
- Founder: Ivan Shuvalov and Mikhail Lomonosov1
- University of Bologna – Country: Italy – Year: 1088 – Founder: Unknown (considered the oldest university in the world)
