Educational institutions categorised by year of founding. Note that most medieval universities were originally schools or colleges, and were refounded as universities at a later date -- the date of refounding as a university is usually taken by historians to be the date that the university was established.

Articles should be categorised by year for 1800 and later, by decade for 1500 to 1799, by century for before 1500, and placed in Category:Educational institutions with year of establishment missing for unknown dates.

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