The definition of a university. It is difficult to determine where the university is the oldest university in the world. The mention of Plato in about 200 BC as the oldest European university in the world. However, it is widely recognized that the University of Bologna. In the city of Bologna, Italy, is the oldest university was established in 1631 (AD 1088), followed by the University of Paris in Paris, France Established 1693 (1150). and next to the University of Oxford in Oxford, Oxford, England Established 1710 (AD 1167). however If the extension of a wider definition of the overall university in the world, including the Middle Ages. The oldest university in the world back in the Near East and Africa. And the oldest university in the world is Al - Kara Vita, the city of Fes, Morocco was established since 1402.