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Local Fact of the Day: Scotland’s first university 🎓

24 October 2026

Teaching began in St Andrews in 1410—three years before Scotland’s first university was formally constituted.

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St Salvator’s Quad at the University of St Andrews, photographed by Remi Mathis

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Teaching began in St Andrews in 1410, and the University was formally constituted by a papal bull in 1413. That makes St Andrews Scotland’s first university—and the third oldest in the English-speaking world. More than six centuries later, its historic buildings remain part of everyday life in the town. The photograph shows St Salvator’s Quad. Have you visited St Andrews? Vote below and share this little piece of Fife history. 💙 Source: University of St Andrews — History and heritage https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/about/history/ Photograph: Remi Mathis · CC BY-SA 3.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Andrews_-_St_Salvator%27s_Quad_-_general_view.JPG https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Original photograph shown without edits.

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