Very Old Campus Heritage Outlasts the University

Vietnam's first university was established here, at the Temple of Literature, in 1076, predating Harvard by a few hundred years. This image and many others can be found at this wonderful website.

Here is a Wikipedia article on it. Here is a New York Times travel guide item about it. Mor information can be found on this Answers.com page. As well, there are some nice images in this personal blog post.

Here is a little more about the curriculum and the students who - surprise, surprise - were often seen by outsiders as "troublemakers."

This is a case where the architecture outlived the university, however, as it shut down as an institution in 1779 after awarding 2,313 doctorate equivalent degrees.