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It housed 10,000 students from 20 countries and 2,000 tea...
2026-08-04
Nalanda — the world's first residential university
— was in Bihar, India.
It housed 10,000 students from 20 countries and 2,000 teachers in 427 CE. It had a 9-storey library. Oxford University was founded 600 full years after Nalanda was already ancient.
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