What is the oldest university in the United States? In the world?
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Psycho the kid
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The world I would assume it is in Europe somewhere, in the US it is Harvard, founded in 1636.
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Univeristy is actually the Anglicized version of the Latin word for trade union/guild. What we call Universities today began in Europe in the Middle Ages as scholar guilds - and as in all guilds, the masters took on apprentices. The oldest ones to become known as teaching universities were the universities of Paris and Bologna. Paris was known primarily for the liberal arts and theologogy while Bologna was dedicated almost exclusively to Law.
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World - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_universities_in_continuous_operation US - http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/421963 UK - http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/421961
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Nanjing in China was founded in 258bc Harvard was founded in 1636bc Oxford is the oldest in the English speaking worldfoundedin 1164bc found in google
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I am pretty sure it is Harvard isn't it? And no I have never been there although I did have an interview for Oxford, which is the oldest in the UK for sure!
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Harvard Univ. Cambridge, Mass. 1636 I've never been, though.
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Harvard...they courted me, but I did not attend. I would like to visit it sometime. I hear the campus is beautiful.
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Harvard. I have visited it. My Dad used to work there. I have not attended the school as a student though.
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Around 2700 years ago, as early as 700 BCE there existed a giant University at Takshashila, located in the northwest region of India. Not only Indians but also students from as far as Babylonia, Greece, Syria, Arabia and China came to study. 68 different streams of knowledge were on the syllabus. Experienced masters taught a wide range of subjects. Vedas, Language, Grammar, Philosophy, Medicine, Surgery, Archery, Politics, Warfare, Astronomy, Accounts, commerce, Futurology, Documentation, Occult, Music, Dance, The art of discovering hidden treasures, etc. The minimum entrance age was 16 and there were 10,500 students. The panel of Masters included renowned names like Kautilya, Panini, Jivak and Vishnu Sharma.
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I see a problem over definition here. A Univeristy is NOT fundamentally a school (a place for teaching the young.) A University is an association of masters/doctors in a number of disciplines who do research, evaluate each other's findings, set standards for membership into their college (association) and for advancement in degrees, and the like. The fact that they occassonally teach classes to undergraduate students is purely incidental - a byproduct of their success, and generally regarded as an interference with their actual work. As such, it is an exclusively medieval European institution in its origins. It is only in America where (since World War II) people seem to think University means "post-secondary school" -- or worse "white-collar trade-school"! -- but what can we expect from a country that defines "scholarship" as "money for quarterbacks."
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