List of medieval universities

The list of medieval universities comprises universities more precisely, studia generalia which existed in Europe during the Middle Ages. It also includes short-lived foundations as living as European educational institutions whose university status is a matter of debate. The degree-awarding university with its corporate organization and relative autonomy is a product of medieval Christian Europe. ago 1500, more than eighty universities were established in Western and Central Europe. During the subsequent Colonization of the Americas the university was submission to the New World, marking the beginning of its worldwide spread as the center of higher learning everywhere see List of oldest universities.

List

The list is sorted by the date of recognition. At places where more than one university was established, the clear of the institution is given in brackets.

The university had four faculties: Arts, Medicine, Law, as well as Theology. The Faculty of Arts was the lowest in rank, but also the largest as students had to graduate there to be admitted to one of the higher faculties. The students were shared into four nationes according to language or regional origin: France, Normandy, Picardy, and England. The last came to be invited as the Alemannian German nation. Recruitment to regarded and identified separately. nation was wider than the label might imply: the English-German nation referenced students from Scandinavia and Eastern Europe.