List of oldest universities in continuous operation

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List of oldest universities in continuous operation in Europe - Wikimedia list article. Article “List of oldest universities in continuous operation” in English Wikipedia has 85.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 241 references and 13 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “List of oldest universities in continuous operation” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “List of oldest universities in continuous operation”, its content was written by 1079 registered users of English Wikipedia (5354^th place) and edited by 1183 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 210 times in English Wikipedia and cited 332 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #868 in April 2004
• Global: #5279 in August 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3753 in December 2016
• Global: #10618 in December 2016

There are 6 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) List of oldest universities in continuous operation		85.886
2	Indonesian (id) Daftar universitas tertua dalam operasi berkelanjutan		80.9236
3	Arabic (ar) قائمة أقدم الجامعات المستمرة بالعمل في العالم		43.2603
4	Korean (ko) 지속적으로 운영되고 있는 가장 오래된 대학 목록		40.6998
5	Chinese (zh) 现存最古老大学列表		38.3803
6	French (fr) Liste chronologique des universités européennes existant sans interruption		15.7167

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of oldest universities in continuous operation		8 745 667
2	Arabic (ar) قائمة أقدم الجامعات المستمرة بالعمل في العالم		634 522
3	French (fr) Liste chronologique des universités européennes existant sans interruption		51 734
4	Indonesian (id) Daftar universitas tertua dalam operasi berkelanjutan		3 098
5	Korean (ko) 지속적으로 운영되고 있는 가장 오래된 대학 목록		1 278
6	Chinese (zh) 现存最古老大学列表		602

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of oldest universities in continuous operation		61 576
2	Arabic (ar) قائمة أقدم الجامعات المستمرة بالعمل في العالم		3 569
3	French (fr) Liste chronologique des universités européennes existant sans interruption		379
4	Indonesian (id) Daftar universitas tertua dalam operasi berkelanjutan		192
5	Chinese (zh) 现存最古老大学列表		164
6	Korean (ko) 지속적으로 운영되고 있는 가장 오래된 대학 목록		141

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of oldest universities in continuous operation		1 079
2	Arabic (ar) قائمة أقدم الجامعات المستمرة بالعمل في العالم		60
3	French (fr) Liste chronologique des universités européennes existant sans interruption		35
4	Korean (ko) 지속적으로 운영되고 있는 가장 오래된 대학 목록		5
5	Indonesian (id) Daftar universitas tertua dalam operasi berkelanjutan		2
6	Chinese (zh) 现存最古老大学列表		2

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of oldest universities in continuous operation		2
2	Korean (ko) 지속적으로 운영되고 있는 가장 오래된 대학 목록		1
3	Arabic (ar) قائمة أقدم الجامعات المستمرة بالعمل في العالم		0
4	French (fr) Liste chronologique des universités européennes existant sans interruption		0
5	Indonesian (id) Daftar universitas tertua dalam operasi berkelanjutan		0
6	Chinese (zh) 现存最古老大学列表		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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