Alternatives and competitors
Sites like hku.hk
The 20 closest higher education alternatives to hku.hk, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 8 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to hku.hk? The closest matches are The Chinese University of Hong Kong, University College London and Peking 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 hku.hk
hku.hk
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Wikidata: public research university in Hong Kong established in 1911
Summary by Claude
Official website of the University of Hong Kong, a public research university in Pokfulam offering undergraduate, postgraduate and research programmes across faculties including medicine, law, engineering and business.
- Who it’s for
- Prospective and current students, staff, researchers
- Business model
- Public funding and tuition fees
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to hku.hk’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 hku.hk
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to hku.hk, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read hku.hk’s homepage (too little text on the homepage), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong
public research university in Hong Kong established in 1963
Very close cos 0.953 - 02
public research university in London, England, United Kingdom
Very close cos 0.930 - 03 Very close cos 0.917
- 04
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.
Very close cos 0.912 - 05
The University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh, influencing the world since 1583. We are one of the UK's top-rated research universities. Located in Scotland's capital city, one of the liveliest and most beautiful cities in the world.
Very close cos 0.912 - 06
King's College London
King's is ranked in the top 10 universities in the UK (QS World Rankings 2021) and based in the heart of London. With nine faculties, institutes and schools of study and five Medical Research Council centres, King's offers world-class teaching and research.
Very close cos 0.911 - 07
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).
Very close cos 0.910 - 08
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.
Very close cos 0.908 - 09
Home - University of Victoria
Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.
Very close cos 0.907 - 10
The University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. A world top 100 university
The University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. A world top 100 university. The University of Glasgow is a major research-led university operating in an international context with the following fundamental aims: * to provide education through the development of learning in a research environment * to undertake fundamental, strategic and applied research * to make a major contribution to local, regional, national and international communities through widening access and through working in partnership to support economic regeneration * to sustain and add value to Scottish culture, to the natural enviro
Very close cos 0.903 - 11
The University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is the UK’s largest single-site university and a Russell Group member, known for research excellence and a diverse student community.
Very close cos 0.904 - 12
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.
Very close cos 0.904 - 13
University of Leeds
The University of Leeds is a large UK higher education institution and part of the Russell Group of leading universities.
Very close cos 0.904 - 14
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public research university in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Very close cos 0.903 - 15
autonomous research university in Singapore
Very close cos 0.902 - 16
Imperial College London
Imperial College London is a world-leading university for science, technology, engineering, medicine and business (STEMB). Across our London campuses, and throughout our international network, we use science to tackle global challenges.
Very close cos 0.902 - 17
The University of Queensland
UQ ranks among the world's top 50 universities, delivering knowledge leadership and connecting with partners and communities for a better world.
Very close cos 0.902 - 18
University of Houston
Located near the heart of Houston, this public, tier one research university offers over 300 degrees and programs and award-winning faculty.
Very close cos 0.902 - 19
The London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE
LSE is a world-leading social science specialist university, awarded University of the Year 2025 and ranked 1st in London and the UK in 2025 and 2026.
Very close cos 0.901 - 20
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The University of Toronto - Error 403
Very close cos 0.901
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to hku.hk’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones hku.hk uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What hku.hk is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- Adobe Experience Manager page source: /etc.clientlibs/
- Fonts
- Adobe Fonts asset https://use.typekit.net/
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080044-BER
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com ip4:147.8.2.0/24 ip4:147.8.…
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=p1a/IoR22M8YOTNy1Q4nCax5kIke4k8k32z4Jcd…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=_C4nHLOPp9Ajm7BVjbWxPAulgD0ru2d9tLGPRatVpxI
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what hku.hk adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Microsoft 365 17/20
- Atlassian 14/20
- Adobe · not on hku.hk 10/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on hku.hk 10/20
- PHP · not on hku.hk 8/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on hku.hk 7/20
- Apple Business · not on hku.hk 7/20
- Brevo · not on hku.hk 6/20
- DocuSign · not on hku.hk 6/20
- jQuery · not on hku.hk 6/20
- Miro · not on hku.hk 4/20
- nginx · not on hku.hk 4/20
- OpenAI · not on hku.hk 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on hku.hk 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on hku.hk 4/20