Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

The 20 closest Higher education alternatives to Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 2 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin? The closest matches are University of Hamburg, Freie Universität Berlin and University of Bonn. 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 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin hu-berlin.de

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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).

Wikidata: public research university in Berlin, Germany

Top 10K · #5,559 English 2 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

Visit Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Summary by Claude

Official website of Humboldt University of Berlin, a public research university offering undergraduate, graduate and doctoral study programs, research institutes and academic services.

Who it’s for: Students, researchers, academic staff
Business model: Public funding

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin’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 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, thumbs down if it isn’t.

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University of Hamburg uni-hamburg.de Top 10K English

UHH : University of Hamburg

Discover the University of Hamburg – a top research university in Germany. Explore study programs research strengths and international options at UHH.
Very close cos 0.936
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Freie Universität Berlin fu-berlin.de Top 10K German

Freie Universität Berlin: Startseite

Die Freie Universität Berlin gehört seit 2007 zu den Exzellenzuniversitäten in Deutschland – sie ist führend in Wissenschaft und Lehre, in der Region vielfältig vernetzt und international aufgestellt. Sie bietet an zwölf Fachbereichen und drei Zentralinstituten mehr als 150 Studiengänge an.
- Apache HTTP Server
Very close cos 0.917
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University of Bonn uni-bonn.de Top 10K English

University of Bonn

The University of Excellence in Bonn is one of Germany's top universities. Study and research at one of the largest and best research-led universities in Germany.
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- Matomo
Very close cos 0.918
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University of Bologna unibo.it Top 10K English

University of Bologna

university in Bologna, Italy
Very close cos 0.915
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uni-heidelberg.de Top 10K

Heidelberg University - Zukunft seit 1386

public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Very close cos 0.914
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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.
Very close cos 0.912
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University of Alberta ualberta.ca Top 10K

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public research university in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Very close cos 0.912
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hku.hk Top 10K English

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public research university in Hong Kong established in 1911
Very close cos 0.910
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rug.nl Top 10K English

Top 100 University | University of Groningen

The University of Groningen has a high reputation for academic teaching and research and a large international network and offers degree programmes at Bachelor, Master and PhD levels in virtually every field.
Very close cos 0.904
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TUM tum.de Top 10K English

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.
Very close cos 0.904
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Peking University pku.edu.cn Top 10K

北京大学

北京大学
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- nginx
Very close cos 0.903
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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.
Very close cos 0.902
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University of Colorado Boulder colorado.edu Top 10K English

Home | University of Colorado Boulder

Colorado’s leading public research university, transforming lives since 1876.
Very close cos 0.901
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uni-kiel.de Top 10K English

Kiel University (CAU)

Einzige Volluniversität und wissenschaftliches Zentrum von Schleswig-Holstein. 27000 Studierende, rund 3700 Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter.
Very close cos 0.899
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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.
Very close cos 0.901
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LMU uni-muenchen.de Top 10K German

Startseite - LMU München

Die Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität gehört zu den größten und forschungsstärksten Universitäten Europas. Mit ihrem ausdifferenzierten Fächerspektrum verfügt sie über ein herausragendes Potenzial für zukunftsweisende Forschung.
Very close cos 0.899
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University College London ucl.ac.uk Top 10K English

public research university in London, England, United Kingdom
Very close cos 0.901
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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.
Very close cos 0.902
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University of Amsterdam uva.nl Top 10K Dutch

Universiteit van Amsterdam

Universiteit van Amsterdam
Very close cos 0.899
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University of Melbourne unimelb.edu.au Top 10K English

Australian public university located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Very close cos 0.898

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to hu-berlin.de’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

Web servers: Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=50fe2a3f158cf92d09462c79d21f399af9e33adcc…

Stack changes

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