Did you know the oldest existing, and continually operating educational institution in the world is the University of Karueein which was founded by a Muslim woman Fatima al-Fihri in 859 AD in Fez, Morocco (according to UNESCO and Guinness World Records).
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Other contenders for this:
Nanjing University, established CE 258 still operating (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_University)
and
Nalanda founded in the 5th century CE, might have made it to the present day had it not been sacked by Muslim invaders around 1200CE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalanda)
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