Located in Oriel Square, the college has the distinction of being the oldest royal foundation in Oxford ( a title formerly claimed by University College, whose claim of being founded by King Alfred is no longer promoted ).

Various kings gave donations to assist this foundation: Muirchertach Ua Lochlainn, provincial king of Ulster, gave cattle, some gold and also a local town land, Donnchad Ua Cearbhall, the king of Airgialla ( Oriel ), who had donated the land, also gave gold, while Derbforgaill, the wife of Tigernan Ua Ruairc gave gold, a chalice and altar cloths.

In 1517, he supported the foundation at the University, by his friend Jeroen Van Busleyden, of the Collegium Trilingue for the study of Hebrew, Latin, and Greek — after the model of the College of the Three Languages at the University of Alcalá.

In 1934 Kenyon was closely associated with the Wheelers in the foundation of the Institute of Archaeology of University College London.

His academic reputation spread so quickly that on the foundation in 1571 of Jesus College, Oxford he was named in the charter as one of the founding scholars " without his privity " ( Isaacson, 1650 ); his connection with the college seems to have been purely notional, however.

President Robinson jointly hosted a reception with the Queen at St. James's Palace, London, in 1995, to commemorate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the Queen's Colleges in 1845 ( the Queen's Colleges are now known as Queen's University of Belfast, University College Cork and National University of Ireland, Galway ).

* Providing an educational foundation for all undergraduate students through a core curriculum that is intentional and reflective of the breadth of perspectives that characterizes the liberal arts at St John Fisher College

* June 27 – Establishment of Jesus College " within the City and University of Oxford of Queen Elizabeth's foundation " in England by Welsh cleric and lawyer Hugh Price.

** His interim chancellor and effective regent, Walter de Merton retires from royal service to make the final revisions to his statutes for the foundation of Merton College, Oxford and take up the post of Bishop of Rochester.

* September 14 – Walter de Merton formally completes the foundation of the House of Scholars of Merton ( later Merton College, Oxford ) to provide education in Malden and the University of Oxford.

The theological preparation of the Carmelites was strengthened, particularly with the foundation of St. Albert's College in Rome.

Bentham has been described as the " spiritual founder " of University College London, though he played little direct part in its foundation.

Bentham is widely associated with the foundation in 1826 of the University of London ( the institution which in 1836 became University College London ), though he was 78 years old when the University opened and played only an indirect role in its establishment.

She laid the foundation stone of the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland – the current University of Zimbabwe.

The School of Pythagoras was built around 1200, predating the foundation of the College ( 1511 ).

This double foundation was the model for Eton College and King's College, Cambridge some 50 years later, and for Westminster School, Christ Church, Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge in Tudor times.

* Trinity College Kirk, Edinburgh, also known as Trinity College Church, all that remains of a medieval collegiate foundation

One boarding house, College, is reserved for seventy King's Scholars, who attend Eton on scholarships provided by the original foundation and awarded by examination each year ; King's Scholars pay up to 90 % of full fees, depending on their means.

Similarly at Queens College, Oxford, the scholars on the foundation were called tabarders, from the tabard, obviously not an emblazoned garment, which they wore.

The title is used in New Zealand for the Headmaster of some independent schools, such as Lindisfarne College, and a number of state schools for boys, including Otago Boys ' High School, King's High School, Dunedin, Waitaki Boys ' High School, Timaru Boys ' High School, Palmerston North Boys ' High School and Southland Boys ' High School showing the Scots ' involvement in the foundation of those schools.

* Hebrew Theological College – a Chicago based institution, " preparing its graduates for roles as educators and Rabbis ", while providing " broad cultural perspectives and a strong foundation in the Liberal Arts and Sciences.

The programme had a strong foundation, based on education at Gordon Memorial College as its centrepiece — and not simply for the children of the local elites: children from anywhere could apply to study.

He vested his wealth in a charitable foundation, Alleyn's College of God's Gift, established in 1619.

Hooke himself characterised his Oxford days as the foundation of his lifelong passion for science, and the friends he made there were of paramount importance to him throughout his career, particularly Christopher Wren.

Like the other early medieval universities ( Bologna, Oxford, Salamanca, Cambridge, Padua ), the University of Paris was already well established before it received a specific foundation act from the Church in 1200.

The College itself is named after John Keble, one of Pusey's colleagues in the Oxford Movement, who died four years before its foundation in 1870.

Every three years the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of Oxford take a walk along the Wall to make sure that the obligation is being fulfilled, a tradition dating back to the College's foundation in 1379.

The original medieval foundation set up by Adam de Brome, under the patronage of Edward II, was called the House or Hall of the Blessed Mary at Oxford.

De Brome's foundation was confirmed in a charter of 21 January 1326, in which the Crown, represented by the Lord Chancellor, was to exercise the rights of Visitor ; a further charter drawn up in May of that year gave the rights of Visitor to Henry Burghersh, Bishop of Lincoln, Oxford at that time being part of the diocese of Lincoln.

) The endowments which St John's was given at its foundation, and during the twenty or so years afterward, served it very well and in the second half of the nineteenth century it benefited, as ground landlord, from the suburban development of the city of Oxford and was unusual among Colleges for the size and extent of its property within the city.

The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the University of Oxford, of the foundation of Sir Thomas Pope, or Trinity College for short, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

Henry had belatedly learned of William of Wykeham's 1379 twin foundation of New College, Oxford and Winchester College, and wanted his own achievements to surpass those of Wykeham.

The Oxford foundation was revived by the university commissioners in 1856 in the form of the Linacre professorship of anatomy.

At twelve, Jowett was placed on the foundation of St Paul's School ( then in St Paul's Churchyard ), and at age 18 he obtained an open scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford, where he remained for the rest of his life.

He is thought to have gone to Magdalen College, Oxford, from which he drew many members of his subsequent foundation, Corpus Christi.

The crown of Foxe's career was his foundation of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, which he established in 1515 – 1516.

Of it, the traditional account is that the books were sent to the Durham Benedictines at his foundation of Durham College, Oxford, and that on the dissolution of the foundation by Henry VIII they were divided between Duke Humphrey of Gloucester's library, Balliol College, Oxford, and George Owen.

Chalmers is an aktiebolag with 100 shares à 1, 000 SEK, all of which is owned by a private foundation ( Chalmers University of Technology Foundation ) which appoints the university board and the president.

In a meeting held on 9 November 1905 at the Field and Academic Club, Subodh Chandra Mullick pledged Rupees one lakh for the foundation of a National University in Bengal.

Accompanied by the John Sealy Hospital Training School for Nurses, which was opened two months after the hospital, the foundation became the primary teaching facility of University of Texas Medical Branch opened in October 1891.

In the 16th century Sixtus V bisected Bramante's Cortile del Belvedere with a cross-wing to house the Apostolic Library in suitable magnificence. The 16th and 17th centuries saw other privately endowed libraries assembled in Rome: the Vallicelliana, formed from the books of Saint Filippo Neri, with other distinguished libraries such as that of Cesare Baronio, the Biblioteca Angelica founded by the Augustinian Angelo Rocca, which was the only truly public library in Counter-Reformation Rome ; the Biblioteca Alessandrina with which Pope Alexander VII endowed the University of Rome ; the Biblioteca Casanatense of the Cardinal Girolamo Casanate ; and finally the Biblioteca Corsiniana founded by the bibliophile Clement XII Corsini and his nephew Cardinal Neri Corsini, still housed in Palazzo Corsini in via della Lungara. The Republic of Venice patronized the foundation of the Biblioteca Marciana, based on the library of Cardinal Basilios Bessarion. In Milan Cardinal Federico Borromeo founded the Biblioteca Ambrosiana.

(" Biographical notes on professors at the Royal University of Lund from its foundation until the current time ") Christianstad: L. Littorin, 1834.

The foundation of the University of Leipzig in 1409 initiated the city's development into a centre of German law and the publishing industry, and towards being the location of the Reichsgericht ( Imperial Court of Justice ), and the German National Library ( founded in 1912 ).

In 1924, along with George M. Bolling ( Ohio State University ) and Edgar Sturtevant ( Yale University ) he formed a committee to organize the creation of the Society, and drafted the call for the Society's foundation.

In mid 2007, the university opened the Macquarie City Campus in the Sydney CBD, offering Macquarie University ’ s foundation studies, selected undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.

Harvard, Georgetown University, Boston University, Yale, and Princeton all had the theological training of clergy as a primary purpose at their foundation.

The University is represented in the Stichting Academisch Erfgoed, a foundation with the goal of preserving university collections.

But perhaps a more significant advance was the foundation in 1905 of a Faculty of Technology, answerable academically to its ' younger sister ' the Victoria University of Manchester and awarding BSc and MSc degrees, the beginnings of UMIST as a University and the first technology faculty in the country.

As of 2011 the University is engaged in a £ 350 million investment programme which will involve the largest physical change to its estate since the University's foundation.

In the period 1536 – 9 he was involved in three academic innovations: the refoundation of Wittenberg along Protestant lines, the reorganisation at Tübingen, and the foundation of the University of Leipzig.