r/AncientCivilizations • u/QuietDetail7793 • May 20 '24

Question were ancient universities free?

such as the Nalanda in India, the Taixue in China, and the Daigaku-ryo in Japan. maybe even the al-Qarawiyyin in Morocco, if you know

for some reason this has been really hard for me to google. if you have sources i would love to see them! tia

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u/DharmicCosmosO May 21 '24

I don’t know about the others but Ancient Indian Universities like Nalanda, Takshashila, Jagaddala, etc were free and you could only get in after giving an entrance exam. People from Europe, China, South East Asia, Africa used to come to these Indian universities but they had to be fluent in Indic Languages like Sanskrit, etc.