Top 10 oldest Universities in the world – #3 is in Africa & was created during the era of JESUS (With Pics)

5. University of Bologna (Italy)

Founded: 1088

The first higher learning institute of the western world and the leading innovator in field of learning till the world wars. The University of Bologna has a wonderful history and is seen as the official step of western world in field of higher education institutes. Incidentally the world ‘university ‘was coined during its creation. This was the mediator for the western world with more educationally sound institutes around the world. Under this process, slowly the university developed, creating various universities along the way. Today Bologna is seen as leading example of European education and is among top 200 schools of the world, has 23 schools and over 85,000 students.