Top 25 Universities Over 400 Years Old

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5/28/2016 Top 25 uni ver si ti es over 400 year s ol d | Ti mes H igher Educati on ( TH E)
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February 10, 2016
Top 25 universities over 400 years old
Times Higher Education World University Rankings data reveal the best ancient institutions
Doubts continue to linger that William Shakespeare didn’t really write all of “his” plays,
without the benet of a university education. So which historical institutions should the
real Bard of Avon have attended?

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The Times Higher Education 25 Over 400 ranking lists the best ancient institutions, to mark
the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.
The UK tops the list, with the universities of Oxford
(https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/university-of-oxford?
edinburgh?ranking-dataset=133819) claiming the rst three places. In terms of national
representatives, the UK is also joint leader in the table: both it and Germany have six
universities each.
Just one university outside Europe makes the list, South Korea’s Sungkyunkwan University
(https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/sungkyunkwan- university-skku?ranking-dataset=133819) (SKKU), in 19th place.
Italy is absent from the table despite being home to the oldest institution in the world, the
University of Bologna (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-
Overall, 11 countries feature in the table.
The University of Oxford (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university- rankings/university-of-oxford), which traces its history back to 1096, is the oldest
institution to make the 25 Over 400 ranking, while the Netherlands’ University of
Groningen (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/university-
in 1614.
Duncan Ross, data and analytics director at THE , said that the list shows “the origin of our
modern university systems as they move away from the religious training institutions they were, into something that was starting to become more recognisable”.
“Despite all the evidence that points to Shakespeare’s being from the English Midlands,
the conspiracy theories around who he might have been refuse to die away. So we
thought it would be fun to look at the universities that a more educated Shakespeare
might have attended,” he said.
“Admittedly our data are the modern data from those institutions (accurate information
from the 17th century is methodologically challenging), and reect only the institutions in
our current top 800 [of the THE World University Rankings 2015-16].
“Could Shakespeare really have been educated in Korea? Is Macbeth really a dramatisation
of the founding of the Joseon dynasty? Or is it about Scotland after all?”
The ranking was compiled using the data collected for the Times Higher Education World
University Rankings 2015-16 (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-
rankings/2016/world-ranking#!/page/0/length/25), but ltered to only include those
institutions that are more than 400 years old. The 25 institutions with the highest scores
are included in the table below. The average age of the top 200 institutions in the 2015-16
rankings is 213 years old.
The THE Young Universities Summit (http://www.cvent.com/events/young-universities-
summit/event-summary-8d82ea5a445a4f38aa480e542dcdc3bb.aspx) will take place at
Pompeu Fabra University (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-
rankings/pompeu-fabra-university) in Barcelona from 5 to 7 April to discuss how
disruptive young innovators in higher education can challenge the traditional elites, such
as the ones listed below.
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Rank Institution
15 University of Basel (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/unive
16 University of Geneva (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/uni
17 University of Vienna (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/uni
18 University of Lausanne (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/u
19 Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-
20 University of Cologne (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/un
21 Trinity College Dublin (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/tri
23 University of Aberdeen (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/u
24 University of Barcelona (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/
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italiane ( bologna,pisa,pavia,ecc.ecc.....signicativo!
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...e non nomino l'universitá di salerno che ha avuto origine dalla scuola dell'ottavo secolo....e scusate se é
poco.
Although Italy has many ancient universities that feature in our World University Rankings, none of them
ranked high enough to be included in this top 25 list.
"The Top 25 (implicitly European) Universities Founded Before Shakespeare Died"? I thought that I'd already seen the most meaningless university rankings possible, but the Times Higher has topped them
all.
What if Shakespeare wanted to read medicine at Barts? Surely QMUL is ranked higher than many of
these; and if you say that Barts hadn't then merged with QMUL, then Aberdeen should be in twice for
King's and Marischal.
Glad to see all four of Scotland's ancient universities included :) (St Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen,
Edinburgh)
(https://www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listing/26424/?
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