The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino is founded in what is now the Dominican Republic.

Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino

Historic university in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

St. Thomas Aquinas University was a university in Dominican Republic. It is arguably the first institution of higher education in the Americas. It was founded by papal bull in 1538 in Santo Domingo, in the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, present-day Dominican Republic, although…