Alternatives and competitors

Sites like University of Colorado Boulder

The 20 closest public research university alternatives to University of Colorado Boulder, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 16 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to University of Colorado Boulder? The closest matches are University of Bologna, Colorado State University and University of California, Berkeley. 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.

Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
4,032
Vector
384-d
Query
8 ms

01 · Entity

About University of Colorado Boulder

University of Colorado Boulder colorado.edu

Home | University of Colorado Boulder

Colorado’s leading public research university, transforming lives since 1876.

Wikidata: public university in Boulder, Colorado, United States, and flagship of the University of Colorado System

Top 10K · #2,355 English 16 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit University of Colorado Boulder

Summary by Claude

Official website of the University of Colorado Boulder, a public research university offering undergraduate, graduate and online degree programs across 270+ fields of study, along with admissions, research, campus news and events information.

Who it’s for
Prospective and current students, faculty, researchers
Business model
Tuition, state funding and research grants

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to University of Colorado Boulder’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

University of California, IrvineUniversity of TorontoUniversity of IowaUniversity of Oregonuni-koeln.deUCLAUniversity of British ColumbiaUniversity of California, BerkeleyColorado State UniversityUniversity of Bologna

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to University of Colorado Boulder

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to University of Colorado Boulder, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    University of Bologna unibo.it Top 10K English

    University of Bologna

    university in Bologna, Italy

  2. 02
    Colorado State University colostate.edu Top 10K English

    Colorado State University

    At Colorado State, there’s this energy we all share—this undeniable excitement for what’s next. And it’s a feeling you can only find here.

  3. 03
    University of California, Berkeley berkeley.edu Top 1K English

    University of California, Berkeley: Home

    UC Berkeley pushes the boundaries of knowledge, challenges convention and expands opportunity to create the leaders of tomorrow.

  4. 04
    University of British Columbia ubc.ca Top 10K English

    The University of British Columbia

    The University of British Columbia is a global centre for research and teaching, consistently ranked among the top 20 public universities in the world.

  5. 05
    UCLA ucla.edu Top 10K English

    A World Leader in Education and Research Excellence | UCLA

    UCLA advances knowledge, addresses pressing societal needs and creates a university enriched by diverse perspectives where all individuals can flourish.

  6. 06

    Home | UC Santa Barbara

    UC Santa Barbara is a leading center for teaching and research located on the California coast - truly a learning and living environment like no other!

  7. 07
    uni-koeln.de Top 10K English

    Universität zu Köln: University of Cologne

    The University of Cologne is a university with the classic range of subjects of a comprehensive university. As one of the largest universities in Europe, it also works at the highest international level in research and teaching.

  8. 08
    UC Davis ucdavis.edu Top 10K English

    University of California, Davis | UC Davis | UC Davis

    public university in the Davis, California area; part of the University of California system

  9. 09
    University of Oregon uoregon.edu Top 10K English

    University of Oregon | Public Research University in Eugene

    Oregon's only AAU university. 300+ degrees, bold research, and a campus community designed for unconventional thinkers. Eugene, Oregon.

  10. 10
    University of Iowa uiowa.edu Top 10K English

    The University of Iowa

    Join a global community of renowned artists, pioneering scientists, and faculty dedicated to student success at the University of Iowa.

  11. 11
    University of Toronto utoronto.ca Top 10K English

    ERROR 403: The request could not be satisfied

    The University of Toronto - Error 403

  12. 12
    University of California, Irvine uci.edu Top 10K English

    UC Irvine

    Homepage for the University of California, Irvine

  13. 13
    University of Victoria uvic.ca Top 10K English

    Home - University of Victoria

    Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.

  14. 14
    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin hu-berlin.de Top 10K English

    Making sure you're not a bot!

    Wir forschen, lehren und arbeiten für die und mit der Gesellschaft. Frei. Unabhängig. Verantwortungsvoll. Mutig und engagiert. Vielfältig und offen. Geschichtsbewusst und zukunftsorientiert. Exzellent. Wir sind die Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU).

  15. 15
    University of California, Santa Cruz ucsc.edu Top 10K English

    public University of California campus in Santa Cruz

  16. 16
    University College London ucl.ac.uk Top 10K English

    public research university in London, England, United Kingdom

  17. 17
    University of Utah utah.edu Top 10K English

    The University of Utah

    Founded in 1850, The University of Utah is the flagship institution of higher learning in Utah, and offers over 100 undergraduate and more than 90 graduate degree programs to over 30,000 students. As a preeminent research and teaching institution, the University cultivates an academic environment in which the highest standards of intellectual integrity and scholarship are practiced.

  18. 18
    University of Maryland umd.edu Top 10K English

    Our Research Changes Lives | University of Maryland

    At UMD, brilliant scholars and scientists come together to spark new ideas, pursue important discoveries, drive innovation and tackle humanity’s grand…

  19. 19
    University of Connecticut uconn.edu Top 10K English

    University of Connecticut

    It's simple enough, UConn is a great university. But it's more than that. A top-ranked research institution, campuses across Connecticut built to inspire, the global community that is UConn Nation.

  20. 20
    North Carolina State University ncsu.edu Top 10K English

    public research university in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to colorado.edu’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones University of Colorado Boulder uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What University of Colorado Boulder 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.colorado.edu/core/assets/vendor/jquery/jquery.min.js?v=4.0.0
CSS & UI
  • Font Awesome asset https://www.colorado.edu/modules/custom/ucb_third_party_libraries/js/FontAwesome/all.min.…
Fonts
  • Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Roboto+Condensed:wght@400;700&family=Roboto:wght…
Tag managers
CDN
  • Fastly header x-served-by: cache-chi-kigq8000053-CHI, cache-ber1080038-BER, cache-ber1…
Hosting
  • Pantheon header x-pantheon-styx-hostname: styx-us-a-684cbff7d7-5bntp
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx
Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by Drupal (header x-generator: Drupal 11 (https://www.drupal.org))
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Brevo TXT brevo-code:d6b523305300718643a7da77b3feeccb
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=QAg9aEn1gpS7HapLhSZbdUei9wTKTCl8EKYsTFg…
  • DocuSign TXT docusign=7412fd08-3676-471a-8b65-8cc2b13c8137
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=iaVX54MaxYscXlrL-DxuE9qtvLhAXkXKhG8sjiH5q-0
  • OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-5hwuyXiWaOnaq12vb3n73azV

Stack changes

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what University of Colorado Boulder adds or drops shows up here.

SimilarSiteSearch

Competitors by meaning, stacks from the source. Data from public homepages and DNS.

About our crawler