Here is a list of the oldest Universities in America.

Harvard University

• FOUNDED

1636

• FOUNDED BY

Massachusetts legislature

• RATE OF ACCEPTANCE

6%

College of William & Mary

• FOUNDED

1693

• FOUNDED BY

King William III and Queen Mary III

• RATE OF ACCEPTANCE

33%

St. John’s College – Annapolis

• FOUNDED

1696

• FOUNDED BY

Maryland colony

• RATE OF ACCEPTANCE

87%

Yale University

• FOUNDED

1701

• FOUNDED BY

Clergymen

• RATE OF ACCEPTANCE

6%

Washington College

• FOUNDED

1782

• FOUNDED BY

Evolved from Kent County Free School

• RATE OF ACCEPTANCE

56%

University of Pennsylvania

• FOUNDED

1740

• FOUNDED BY

Benjamin Franklin

• RATE OF ACCEPTANCE

10%

Moravian College & Moravian Theological Seminary

• FOUNDED

1742

• FOUNDED BY

Moravians

• RATE OF ACCEPTANCE

86%

University of Delaware

• FOUNDED

1743

• FOUNDED BY

Francis Alison

• RATE OF ACCEPTANCE

68%

Princeton University

• FOUNDED

1746

• FOUNDED BY

New Light Presbyterians

• RATE OF ACCEPTANCE

7%

Washington & Lee University

• FOUNDED

1749

• FOUNDED BY

Scotch-Irish Presbyterian pioneers

• RATE OF ACCEPTANCE

19%

Columbia University

• FOUNDED

1754

• FOUNDED BY

Royal charter of George II of Great Britain

• RATE OF ACCEPTANCE

7%

Brown University

• FOUNDED

1764

• FOUNDED BY

Baptist Church Association support

• RATE OF ACCEPTANCE

9%

Rutgers University

• FOUNDED

1766

• FOUNDED BY

Ministers of the Dutch Reformed Church

• RATE OF ACCEPTANCE

60%

Dartmouth College

• FOUNDED

1769

• FOUNDED BY

Eleazar Wheelock

• RATE OF ACCEPTANCE

12%

College of Charleston

• FOUNDED

1770

• FOUNDED BY

Several prominent South Carolinians

• RATE OF ACCEPTANCE

78%

Salem College

• FOUNDED

1772

• FOUNDED BY

Moravians

• RATE OF ACCEPTANCE

60%

Dickinson College

• FOUNDED

1773

• FOUNDED BY

Pennsylvania legislature

• RATE OF ACCEPTANCE

48%

Hampden-Sydney College

• FOUNDED

1775

• FOUNDED BY

Samuel Stanhope Smith

• RATE OF ACCEPTANCE

47%

Transylvania University

• FOUNDED

1780

• FOUNDED BY

Virginia Assembly

• RATE OF ACCEPTANCE

83%

Washington & Jefferson College

• FOUNDED

1781

• FOUNDED BY

Three frontier clergymen

• RATE OF ACCEPTANCE

42%

University of Georgia

• FOUNDED

1785

• FOUNDED BY

Georgia General Assembly

• RATE OF ACCEPTANCE

56%

University of Pittsburgh

• FOUNDED

1787

• FOUNDED BY

Hugh Henry Brackenridge

• RATE OF ACCEPTANCE

53%

Franklin & Marshall College

• FOUNDED

1787

• FOUNDED BY

Four prominent ministers

• RATE OF ACCEPTANCE

39%

Georgetown University

• FOUNDED

1789

• FOUNDED BY

John Carroll

• RATE OF ACCEPTANCE

17%

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• FOUNDED

1789

• FOUNDED BY

North Carolina General Assembly

• RATE OF ACCEPTANCE

28%