Asia[edit]
Afghanistan:
Kabul Medical University, 1946[34]
Kabul University, founded in 1931, formally opened 1932
Armenia: Yerevan State University, 1919
Azerbaijan: Baku State University, 1919
Bahrain: University of Bahrain. Founded in 1986.
Bangladesh: University of Dhaka, 1921[35]
Cambodia:
Royal University of Fine Arts, 1918
Royal University of Law and Economics, 1948
Royal University of Phnom Penh, 1960
China:[36]
Peking University, founded in 1898 as Imperial University of Peking
Tianjin University, established in 1895 as Peiyang Western Study School
Jiaotong University, founded in 1896 as Nanyang Public School
Nanjing University (National Central University), established as Sanjiang Normal College in 1902, the first Chinese university providing doctoral degree (in 1927)
Saint John's University, Shanghai, founded in 1879 as "St. John's College", the first school granting bachelor's degree in China (in 1907). But it was not chartered by China government until 1947
Hong Kong: The University of Hong Kong, 1912
India:
Serampore College, 1818, first institution with university status (although not a university) to grant degrees in theology.
University of Calcutta, 1857, first full fledged multi-disciplinary university in South Asia in terms of foundation date although the University of Bombay and the University of Madras were subsequently established in the same year.
Indonesia:
University of Indonesia, 1947, founded as the School of Javanese Doctor in 1851.
Bandung Institute of Technology, 1959, founded as Technische Hogeschool in 1920.
Iraq: University of Baghdad, 1956 - Although the Iraqi Royal College of Medicine was established in 1928.
Iran: University of Tehran, 1934, founded by Reza Shah
Israel:
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1918
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, founded in 1912, but formal teaching began in 1924
Japan:
University of Tokyo, Its origins include a private college of Confucian studies founded by Hayashi Razan in 1630,[37][38] Tenmonkata (The Observatory, 1684)[39] and Shutōsho (Smallpox Vaccination Centre, 1849).[40] It was later organised in 1867 as the Imperial University.
Keio University, 1858 as the oldest modern institute of higher education in Japan (To be noted, Japan's oldest academic institution is Ashikaga Gakko)
Kazakhstan:
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, 1933
Lebanon:
American University of Beirut, 1866
Lebanese American University, 1924
Macau: University of Macau, established as University of East Asia in 1981, renamed 1991.
Malaysia: University of Malaya, as Straits and Federated Malay States Government Medical School in 1905 in Singapore
Mongolia:
Mongolian Academy of Sciences, 1921, as part of the Institute of Literature and Script
Institute of finance and economics of Mongolia, 1924 as the School of Custom's Officers in Ulaanbaatar.
National University of Mongolia, 1942
Myanmar: Rangoon University, 1878[41]
Nepal: Tribhuvan University, 1959[42]
Pakistan:
King Edward Medical University Lahore, 1860
Forman Christian College, now Forman Christian College University, Lahore, 1864
Government College, Lahore, now Government College University, Lahore, 1864
University of the Punjab, 1882 (Pakistan)[43]
Edwardes College, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 1900
The Nadirshaw Eduljee Dinshaw University of Engineering and Technology,1922 Karachi
Philippines:
University of Santo Tomas (1611)
See also: List of the oldest schools in the Philippines
Saudi Arabia: King Saud University, 1957.
Singapore: National University of Singapore, as Straits and Federated Malay States Government Medical School in 1905
South Korea:
Ewha Womans University, 1886
Sungkyunkwan University, 1895, developed from Sungkyunkwan 1398
Korea University, 1905
Yonsei University, 1915 - College founded in 1915, hospital established in 1885
Sri Lanka:
University College Colombo, 1920 - Although the Ceylon Medical College was established in 1870
University of Ceylon, 1942 - First full fledged multi disciplinary university in Sri Lanka
Syria: University of Damascus was founded in 1923 through the merger of the School of Medicine (established 1903) and the Institute of Law (established 1913).
Taiwan:
National Taiwan University, 1928, as Taihoku (Taipei) Imperial University.
National Taipei University of Technology, 1912, as School of Industrial Instruction
Thailand:
Chulalongkorn University, 1917
Thammasat University, 1939
Kasetsart University, 1943
Vietnam:
Hanoi Medical University 1902
Vietnam National University, Hanoi 1904
Hanoi College of Fine Arts 1925
.btw my university is the oldest one in the entire Asian continent!
