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Oldest 97anyway. This based on the founding of the institution not charter date. Some schools claim they evolved from "academies", basically high schools.

Henricus was a church based school for educating Native Americans in Virginia.

College Founded

Henricus Colledge 1619 1625

Harvard University 1636

The College of William & Mary 1693

St. John's College 1696

Yale University 1701

University of Pennsylvania 1740

Moravian College 1742

University of Delaware 1743

College of New Jersey (Princeton) 1746

Princeton University 1746

Washington & Lee University 1749

Columbia University 1754

Brown University 1764

Rutgers University 1766

Dartmouth College 1769

College of Charleston 1770

Salem College 1772

Dickinson College 1773

Hampden-Sydney College 1775

Union College 1779

Transylvania University 1780

Washington & Jefferson College 1780

Washington College 1782

Franklin and Marshall College 1787

Georgetown University 1789

University of Vermont 1791

Williams College 1793

Bowdoin College 1794

University of Tennessee 1794

Union College 1795

University of North Carolina 1795

Middlebury College 1800

University of South Carolina 1801

United States Military Academy 1802

Ohio University 1804

University of Maryland 1807

Miami University (Ohio) 1809

Colby College 1813

University of Michigan 1817

Saint Louis University 1818

Colgate University 1819

Norwich University 1819

University of Cincinnati 1819

Indiana University 1820

Amherst College 1821

Hobart College 1822

Trinity College (Hartford) 1823

Kenyon College 1824

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1824

Lafayette College 1826

Western Reserve University 1826

Denison University 1831

New York University 1831

University of Alabama 1831

Wesleyan University 1831

Pennsylvania College (Gettysburg College) 1832

Haverford College 1833

Oberlin College 1833

Tulane University 1834

Wheaton College 1834

Emory University 1836

Indiana Asbury University (DePauw University, 1883) 1837

Knox College 1837

Mount Holyoke College 1837

Boston University 1839

University of Missouri 1839

Bridgewater State University 1840

Bethany College 1840

Fordham University 1841

Ohio Wesleyan University 1842

University of Notre Dame 1842

Holy Cross College 1843

University of Delaware 1843

Baylor College 1845

United States Naval Academy 1845

Saint Vincent College 1846

Beloit College 1846

Bucknell College 1846

Grinnell College 1846

University of Buffalo 1846

Lawrence College 1847

State University of Iowa 1847

University of Mississippi 1848

University of Wisconsin 1849

University of Dayton 1850

University of Rochester 1850

University of Utah 1850

Culver-Stockton College 1853

Bates College 1855

Michigan State 1855

Pennsylvania State University 1855

Sewanee: The University of the South 1857

Kansas State University 1863

Cornell 1865

University of California 1869

Syracuse University 1870

Texas A&M 1876

University of Texas 1883

Clemson 1889

Stanford 1891

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Peru State College in Nebraska became the 1st college in NE in 1867, and was originally a Methodist College in 1865.   It is reportedly the 3rd oldest college west of the Mississippi, and now part of the Nebraska State College system founded in the 1970s

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