Alternatives and competitors

Sites like UCLA

The 20 closest higher education alternatives to UCLA, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 16 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to UCLA? The closest matches are University of California, Berkeley, UC Davis and University of California, Santa Barbara. 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 UCLA

UCLA ucla.edu

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.

Wikidata: public university in Los Angeles, California, USA

Top 10K · #1,401 English 16 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit UCLA

Summary by Claude

Official website of the University of California, Los Angeles, a public research university offering undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs, with news about research, campus events, athletics, arts and alumni.

Who it’s for
Prospective and current students, faculty, alumni, researchers
Business model
Public funding, tuition and donations

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to UCLA’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 UCLA

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to UCLA, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    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.

  2. 02
    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

  3. 03

    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!

  4. 04
    University of Southern California usc.edu Top 10K English

    University of Southern California

    USC is one of the world's leading research universities. At USC, the human spirit is cultivated through learning, research and creativity.

  5. 05

    public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California

  6. 06
    University of California, Irvine uci.edu Top 10K English

    UC Irvine

    Homepage for the University of California, Irvine

  7. 07
    University of California, Santa Cruz ucsc.edu Top 10K English

    public University of California campus in Santa Cruz

  8. 08
    University of California, San Diego ucsd.edu Top 10K English

    University of California San Diego

    The University California San Diego is one of the world's leading public research universities, located in beautiful La Jolla, California

  9. 09
    University of California, Riverside ucr.edu Top 10K English

    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.

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

    public research university in London, England, United Kingdom

  11. 11
    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.

  12. 12
    University of Colorado Boulder colorado.edu Top 10K English

    Home | University of Colorado Boulder

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

  13. 13
    Stanford University stanford.edu Top 1K English

    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.

  14. 14
    California Institute of Technology caltech.edu Top 10K English

    Home - www.caltech.edu

    The California Institute of Technology aims to expand human knowledge and benefit society through research integrated with education.

  15. 15
    Louisiana State University lsu.edu Top 10K English

    Welcome to LSU, a top research university | Baton Rouge, La.

    LSU is an elite research university tackling global challenges, with a unique culture, top academic programs, and a rich and rewarding educational experience.

  16. 16
    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…

  17. 17
    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.

  18. 18
    University of Cambridge cam.ac.uk Top 10K English

    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.

  19. 19
    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.

  20. 20
    ku.edu Top 10K English

    Explore the home of the Jayhawks | The University of Kansas

    Excellence in academics and research at the University of Kansas powers the state and transforms the world.

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

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What UCLA is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

JavaScript libraries
  • jQuery asset https://www.ucla.edu/js/vendor/jquery.min.js
Tag managers
CDN
  • Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: 2gTJZ-FSnjOsx5lE7MgCW1T7YXqS5AettEL8-4v8EeNEVeDy3jN7Lg==
  • cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/fancybox/3.5.6/jquery.fancybox.min.js
  • jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vanilla-lazyload@17.8.3/dist/lazyload.min.js
Web servers
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Brevo TXT brevo-code:fb7abc76984900d8473089f6bc03c064
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=66a3bd1a9e558d8448ed38b1258c70ac3915d1a89…
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=PYB7nvhaSpskXk/oaGfNqyc/VDgWrQIhzaLLFKI…
  • DocuSign TXT docusign=027f23b4-d9f0-4ee3-9b88-971151b9799a
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=QS5gayPg38zC46YsAx4a9c3v4qTBkn-R69g90pQgpB0
  • OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-85b2FcVGlrPNPqnmddUjAZw7
  • Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:everbridge.net include:spf.em.ucla.edu include:_spf.go…
  • Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_VyMyKp4xRESQCcHLpwFUvw

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