scottydc91 t1_iugx6of wrote on October 31, 2022 at 6:31 AM

Reply to comment by worstregards in TIL university of bologna in Italy is the world's oldest continuous operating university, founded in 1088. It was the first university in Europe and was founded as a school of law by four famous legal scholars by mankls3

According to the wiki page it didn't aquire University status until the 1960s, until then it was just public education. Still incredibly old but technically no it wouldn't.