List of colonial universities in Hispanic America

The list of universities established in the viceroyalties of the Hispanic America comprises all universities established by the Spanish Empire in the Americas from the settlement of the Americas in 1492 to the Wars of Independence in the early 19th century. The transfer of the European university model to the overseas colonies in the Americas represented a decisive turning point in the educational history of the continents: Nothing remotely resembling a university existed in the New World before Europeans arrived and settled there.

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