Question: Which university was founded first, Virginia Commonwealth University or the University of the East?

The VCU Medical Center is Virginia Commonwealth University's medical campus located in downtown Richmond, Virginia in the Court End neighborhood.  The VCU Medical Center used to be known as the Medical College of Virginia, which merged with the Richmond Professional Institute in 1968 to create Virginia Commonwealth University.  In the 1990s, an authority controlling MCV Hospitals was created called the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals Authority.  In 2004, the name of this authority was changed to VCU Health System and the MCV Hospitals and surrounding campus were branded VCU Medical Center.  This authority controls the employees and real estate occupied by the five schools within the VCU Medical Center.  It was at this time that MCV Campus moniker was created.  West Hospital houses various clinical, administrative and support services of the hospitals of VCU Medical Center; clinical, academic and administrative units of the School of Medicine; and academic and administrative units of the School of Allied Health Professions. <SEP> Kayvan Najarian is an Iranian-American scientist, who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics and Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.  He is also currently the director of the M-CIRCC's (Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care) Bioinformatics Signal and Image Analysis Core.  Previously, he was the Associate Professor of Computer Science at School of Engineering of Virginia Commonwealth University, Affiliated faculty of Emergency Medicine at School of Medicine of Virginia Commonwealth University, and Associate Director of Virginia Commonwealth University Rehabilitation Engineering Shock (VCURES) center.  He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, is a reviewer, referee or member of dozens more committees, journals and councils.  He received his B.SC.  in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, his M.Sc.  in Biomedical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, and his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of British Columbia. <SEP>  It was founded in 1946. The University of the East (Filipino: "Pamantasan ng Silangan") also known as UE, is a private university located in Manila, Philippines.  Lucio Tan acquired the university in 1990.  UE was once labeled as the "largest university in Asia" once having an enrollment of over 60,000 students. <SEP>  VCU was founded in 1838 as the medical department of Hampden–Sydney College, becoming the Medical College of Virginia in 1854. Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is a public research university located in Richmond, Virginia.  In 1968, the Virginia General Assembly merged MCV with the Richmond Professional Institute, founded in 1917, to create Virginia Commonwealth University.  In 2015, more than 31,000 students pursue 226 degree and certificate programs through VCU's 13 schools and one college.  The VCU Health System supports the university's health care education, research and patient care mission.