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  • Courtyard, Al-Qarawiyyin University, Fes, Morocco

  • University of Bologna, located in Bologna, Italy, is the oldest university created under that name in the world.

  • Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco, located in Mexico City, Mexico, was the first and oldest European school of higher learning in the Americas and the first and oldest major school of interpreters and translators in the New World.

  • The University of Pennsylvania considers itself the first institution in the United States of America to use the term "university" in its name.

  • The University of Cambridge is an institution of higher learning in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

  • McGill University is an institution of higher learning in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and one of two Canadian members of the Association of American Universities.

  • The Moscow State University is an institution of higher learning in Moscow, Russia.

  • The Jeffersonian architecture of Tsinghua University, an institution of higher learning in Beijing, China.

  • The University of Tokyo is an institution of higher learning in Tokyo, Japan.

  • The University of São Paulo is an institution of higher learning in São Paulo, Brazil.

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