Spain founded 23 universities in America open to indigenous people
The educational work of Spain in the New World was remarkable. In 1533 the Spanish founded the Colegio de la Santa Cruz in Tlatelolco, in New Spain (present-day Mexico), which was the first institution of higher education in all of America, and in 1538 the first university in America was founded, in Santo Domingo. Let's bear in mind that there are European countries that took longer to have universities. And that was just the beginning. Spain founded 23 universities in America, open to people of all races. On the contrary, in British North America there was no higher education center until Harvard College in 1636 (by then Hispanic America already had 13 universities), which became a university in 1780 and in which non-white students could not study. until well into the 19th century. Portugal founded the first university in Brazil in 1808.