Universities founded in Europe during the Middle Ages (i.e., to 1500), organized by country and date, are as follows:

Austria

University of Vienna, 1365

Belgium

University of Leuven, 1425

Bosnia

Bosnian Church University, Visoko, 1175, disbanded 1463

Croatia

University of Zadar, 1396

Czech Republic

Charles University in Prague, 1348

Denmark

University of Copenhagen, 1479

England

University of Oxford, 1167, teaching from 1096

University of Cambridge, 1209, teaching from 12th Century

University of Northampton, 1261, disbanded 1265

France

University of Paris, 1150

University of Toulouse, 1229

Sorbonne(at the University of Paris), 1257

University of Montpellier, 1289

University of Avignon, 1303

University of Orléans, 1306

University of Cahors, 1332

University of Angers, 1337

University of Grenoble, 1339

University of Perpignan, 1350

University of Poitiers, 1431

University of Bordeaux, 1441

University of Nantes, 1460

Germany

University of Heidelberg, 1386

University of Cologne, 1388

University of Erfurt, 1392

University of Würzburg, 1402

University of Leipzig, 1409

University of Rostock, 1419

University of Greifswald, 1456

University of Freiburg, 1457

University of Ingolstadt, 1472

University of Tübingen, 1476

Italy

University of Bologna, 1088, teaching from 11th Century

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 1175

University of Vicenza, 1204

University of Arezzo, 1215

University of Padua, 1222

University of Naples Federico II, 1224

University of Siena, 1240

University of Piacenza, 1248

University of Macerata, 1290

University of Rome La Sapienza, 1303

University of Perugia, 1308

University of Treviso, 1318

University of Pisa, 1343

University of Florence, 1349

University of Pavia, 1361

University of Ferrara, 1391

University of Fermo, 1398

University of Turin, 1404

University of Catania, 1434

University of Genoa, 1481

Hungary

University of Pécs, 1367

Poland

Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 1364

Portugal

University of Coimbra, Lisbon, 1290

University of Lisbon, 1290

Scotland

University of St Andrews, 1413

University of Glasgow, 1451

King's College, Aberdeen, 1495

Slovakia

Universitas Istropolitana, 1465

Spain

University of Palencia, 1212

University of Salamanca, 1218

University of Valladolid, 1250

University of Seville, 1254

University of Lleida, 1300

University of Barcelona, 1450

University of Santiago de Compostela, 1495

University of Alcalà de Henares, 1499

University of Valencia, first established 1245, 1499

Sweden

University of Uppsala, 1477

Switzerland

University of Basel, 1460

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