What is the oldest Jesuit university in the us?

Answer 1

It depends on what criterion you want to consider.

The Jesuit university with the highest overall ranking among Colleges and Universities in the U.S. is Georgetown University. Georgetown also has the highest number of students among Jesuit universities, at about 17,000; it is the most selective Catholic university, and the oldest Catholic university in the U.S.

Boston College, Fordham, and Marquette also rank in the top 100. (The highest ranking Catholic university by this measure is the University of Notre Dame, which is not Jesuit).

The oldest Jesuit university worldwide is the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. It was founded in 1551 and counts among its alumni 17 popes and 72 saints and beati (Blessed). It is widely considered the best of the pontifical universities, though there is no official ranking.

Answer 2

The National Autonomous University of Mexico

(Mexico is considered part of North America and the UNAM was founded in 1551.- KT)
Harvard is the oldest in US, don't know if there was any before that in whole of North America.

Answer 3

Boston Latin School in Boston, Mass. is the oldest public school in America. It was founded April 23, 1635.

It was started by Rev. John Cotton who wanted to create a school modeled after the Free Grammar School in Boston, England, in which Latin and Greek were taught. The school was publicly funded and the first classes were held in the home of Philemon Pormort, the school's master.

Believe it or not five of the 56 signers of the U.S. Constitution attended Boston Latin: John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Treat Paine, and William Hooper.

Answer 4

Georgetown University