Johan Östling has published a book on the global history of the university. Kunskapens stora hus (“The Great House of Knowledge”) offers a concise and vivid account of the long history of the university. It focuses on three overarching academic models that dominated during certain epochs and exerted an influence as a kind of model for the rest of the world: the Latin university, the German university and the American university. 

Read more about the book (in Swedish): https://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/kunskapens-stora-hus-huvudlinjer-i-universitetets-historia-9789170614729