How did people apply for university in the 18th century?

Question

Universities have been around for a while. I am reading a book called Frankenstein. One of the main characters, Victor Frankenstein, attends the University of Ingolstadt in Germany. Now, it makes me wonder how people applied for universities in Europe back then in the 18th century. Who were eligible to attend university? Did they pay the tuition directly to the professors? In today's society, one usually graduates high school to get into a university. How was it done back then? It doesn't have to be Germany. I would just like to know how universities worked in Western Europe in general.

Answer 1

Universities sprang up in bars and other public houses, as students congregated around a traveling professor or expert in a certain subject. The students paid the teacher directly. Very soon they moved into more permanent buildings all over Europe and faculties grew, as experts in certain subjects, like medicine, literature, religion or law gravitated to them. For instance, the University of Bologna was a school of medicine.