475 years ago today, the National University of San Marcos was founded in Lima, Peru. It is considered the most prestigious center of learning in the country, and is the oldest continually operating university in the Americas. Hardly existing as a relic, and much like Oxford and Cambridge, this antique institution leads the country's education sector in scientific papers published, and twenty-one presidents, five candidates for Nobel Prizes of Physics, Literature, and Peace—of the total of six Peruvians nominated between 1901 and 1964, and a Nobel Prize winner—Mario Vargas Llosa, have been graduates and/or professors at San Marcos. READ more about what this special university contains... (1551)
