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A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...
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1364
5.12.1364
Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland, is founded in Kraków, Poland.
1538
10.28.1538
The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.
1683
6.6.1683
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
1852
10.11.1852
The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
1911
11.17.1911
The Omega Psi Phi fraternity, the first African-American fraternity at an historically black college or university, is founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C.