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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...

Ouch. Either I need to stop commenting while in a conference call or I'm going senile. Or both.

No worries.

I'm mirthed, however.

Few of those are in the Americas.

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

Pedant! ;-)

Cambridge is pretty old as well.

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.