Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Illinois
The 20 closest public research university alternatives to Illinois, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 14 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Illinois? The closest matches are University of Illinois Chicago, University of California, Irvine and UCLA. 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 Illinois
Illinois illinois.edu
Illinois
Discover the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign—where innovation, community, and discovery drive world-class learning, research, and public impact.
Wikidata: public research university in Urbana and Champaign, Illinois, United States
Summary by Claude
Official website of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a public land-grant research university offering undergraduate, graduate and online degree programs, research, and campus cultural resources.
- Who it’s for
- Prospective and current students, faculty, researchers, alumni
- Business model
- Tuition, state funding, research grants and donations
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Illinois’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 Illinois
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Illinois, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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UC Irvine
Homepage for the University of California, Irvine
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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.
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The University of Iowa
Join a global community of renowned artists, pioneering scientists, and faculty dedicated to student success at the University of Iowa.
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University of California, Davis | UC Davis | UC Davis
public university in the Davis, California area; part of the University of California system
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University of Nebraska–Lincoln
public university in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
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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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Home | The Ohio State University
Discover Ohio State, a mission-driven land grant university, home to the Wexner Medical Center and world-class graduate, undergraduate and research programs.
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UC Riverside / University of California, Riverside
UC Riverside is the nation’s leader for social mobility with a diverse & inclusive community pioneering research with impacts around the globe.
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Homepage | Mizzou
public research university in Columbia, Missouri, USA
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the nation’s first public university, is a global higher education leader known for innovative teaching, research and public service. A member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, Carolina regularly ranks as the best value for academic quality in U.S. public higher education.
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The University of Virginia
Experience vibrant student life, unparalleled academic excellence, and the unique culture that makes UVA stand out.
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University of Bologna
university in Bologna, Italy
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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.
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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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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 research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan
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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).
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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.
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Bring On Tomorrow: Solving tomorrow's problems today
Indiana University empowers students to succeed through top-ranked academics, groundbreaking research, and service that strengthens Indiana and beyond.
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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.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to illinois.edu’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Illinois uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Illinois is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress meta generator: WordPress 7.1.2
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://illinois.edu/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: otSDKStub
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx/1.24.0
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 7.1.2)
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms64069560
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=871c897f-f9d7-47bc-804f-f437f4717c94
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=ebs4HtRaugGl/IadlP43zjrOZfEynVnZ0pCpm3u…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=12076312-3a39-4496-ba79-e87bee5f3df6
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: IshbA56YD-JnQuVNN1qlCMR3a6JBsKTTXo4DVQdAkHo
- Miro TXT miro-verification=6f86b16dbd160af6f01c0846dc4d1144693d881a
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-nYRIJFGdMjmQyuDMnFbUKqt9
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Illinois adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Microsoft 365 19/20
- Atlassian 17/20
- Adobe 13/20
- DocuSign 12/20
- Google Tag Manager 12/20
- Apple Business · not on illinois.edu 11/20
- OpenAI 10/20
- jQuery 10/20
- Brevo · not on illinois.edu 8/20
- nginx 8/20
- PHP 8/20
- Google Workspace · not on illinois.edu 7/20
- Drupal · not on illinois.edu 7/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on illinois.edu 6/20
- Miro 6/20