Alternatives and competitors
Sites like CMU
The 20 closest higher education alternatives to CMU, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 18 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to CMU? The closest matches are University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh and Princeton University. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About CMU
CMU cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon University | CMU
A private, global research university, Carnegie Mellon stands among the world's top educational institutions with its cutting-edge programs and innovations.
Wikidata: private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary by Claude
Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, offering undergraduate and graduate degrees and conducting research, with a planned new campus in Miami.
- Who it’s for
- Prospective students, researchers, faculty
- Business model
- Tuition, research grants, donations
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to CMU’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to CMU
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to CMU, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
University of Pennsylvania
As America’s first university, Penn has a history that dates back to 1740 and shares many ties with the colonial city of Philadelphia and the birth of our nation.
Very close cos 0.898 - 02
Home | University of Pittsburgh
state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Very close cos 0.896 - 03
private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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Northwestern University
Northwestern is one of the country’s leading private research and teaching universities, located in Evanston, IL. Our highly collaborative environment provides our diverse students and faculty with exceptional opportunities for personal and professional growth.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
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The Pennsylvania State University | Penn State
Penn State is a Pennsylvania-based, top-ranked public university that educates students worldwide. Learn more about Penn State degree programs and research.
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public university based in Melbourne, Australia
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Vanderbilt University
Quick Guide Prospective Undergrads Prospective Grad & Professional Current Students Faculty & Staff Job Seekers Alumni & Friends Undergraduate Admissions Financial Aid & Scholarships Academics Find Your Major Schools & Colleges Student Life Plan a Visit Undergraduate Research Athletics - Anchor
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Stanford University
At Stanford, a spirit of optimism and possibility energizes our mission of discovery and learning. Here you’ll find a place of intellectual expansiveness, wide-ranging perspectives, and freedom to explore new lines of thinking. Alive with ideas and innovation, approaching questions with openness and curiosity, pursuing excellence in all we do – this is Stanford.
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University of Rochester | Where Wonder Fuels Discovery
Groundbreaking research, lifesaving healthcare, rigorous academics, and world-class music for problem-solvers who shape an ever better world.
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MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is one of the world’s leading universities, with a rich history of radical thinking dating back to 1209.
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Duke University - Fueled by creativity, informed by scholarship
Fueled by creativity, informed by scholarship
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Cornell University
Cornell University is a private research university that provides an exceptional education for undergraduates and graduate and professional students. Cornell's colleges and schools encompass more than 100 fields of study, with locations in Ithaca, New York, New York City and Doha, Qatar.
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Rice University
Rice University is a comprehensive research university in Houston, Texas. Rice produces Houston’s next generation of leaders and advances tomorrow’s thinking.
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private university in New York City, New York, US
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Technical University of Munich: The Entrepreneurial University - TUM
Technical University of Munich: One of Germany's leading universities for research and teaching in natural sciences and engineering.
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New York University
There's nothing like a crisp autumn day in New York to put a spring in your step, and at all of NYU's campuses and global sites, the fall presents an opportunity for renewed focus. That's something we're leaning into as a community through the NYU IRL initiative, which challenges us all to reclaim our time and attention so we can concentrate on what matters most. What will we notice when we look up from our devices? Here's to less checking and more connecting, to less following and more wandering.
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Homepage | Boston University
Boston University is a leading private research institution with two primary campuses in the heart of Boston and programs around the world.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to cmu.edu’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones CMU uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What CMU is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- Drupal header x-generator: Drupal 11 (https://www.drupal.org)
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.cmu.edu/core/assets/vendor/jquery/jquery.min.js?v=4.0.0
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/6.6.0/css/all.min.css
- Fonts
- Adobe Fonts asset https://use.typekit.net/jfh3qah.css
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- CDN
- Hosting
- Pantheon header x-pantheon-styx-hostname: styx-us-a-684cbff7d7-slggm
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by Drupal (header x-generator: Drupal 11 (https://www.drupal.org))
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms17583017
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=yZrPHuazhdH42CPf
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=H4RHVEsTq5YZaRen7VBly2a3AqWhfLMxAL3wBSc…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=048da45a-23c6-4f6b-8f96-6dff4fa6b22b
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=JopPlnNv9VupQydpE3TiwZAEod-zouxEX0inao6rggg
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=vxpo0xkores42yfj9ggcdd2o2d2v2n
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_FruZuJfdTeW1OOezpsuIVA
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what CMU adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Microsoft 365 18/20
- Atlassian 17/20
- Adobe · not on cmu.edu 15/20
- Google Tag Manager 14/20
- Apple Business 11/20
- OpenAI · not on cmu.edu 11/20
- DocuSign 9/20
- jQuery 9/20
- PHP 9/20
- Brevo · not on cmu.edu 9/20
- Proofpoint · not on cmu.edu 7/20
- nginx 6/20
- Font Awesome 6/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on cmu.edu 6/20
- Canva · not on cmu.edu 5/20