[krilly]

If I were feeling pedantic I'd mention the universities of Oxford, St Andrews, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen... As well as a handful in Spain and Portugal ;)

[skookum]

Your comment got me interested in where the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (alma mater to Copernicus) placed in these standings which led me to this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_universities_in...

[dredmorbius]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22428584 ;-)

[dredmorbius]

Few of those are in the Americas.

[stordoff]

They are in the Western Hemisphere though, hence the pedantry (presumably).

[gvjddbnvdrbv]

Cambridge is pretty old as well.

[stordoff]

1209 (it celebrated its 800th while I was there, so the date has stuck with me).

It's not in the Western Hemisphere though - it's about 0.1E.