Alternatives and competitors

Sites like University of California, Riverside

The 20 closest public research university alternatives to University of California, Riverside, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 18 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to University of California, Riverside? The closest matches are UC Davis, 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 University of California, Riverside

University of California, Riverside ucr.edu

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.

Wikidata: public research university in Riverside, California, United States

Top 10K · #5,271 English 18 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit University of California, Riverside

Summary by Claude

Official website of the University of California, Riverside, a public land-grant research university offering undergraduate, transfer, international and graduate degree programs, plus campus news, events and admissions 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 California, Riverside’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 CambridgeUniversity of Illinois ChicagoUniversity of MarylandUniversity of California, San DiegoUniversity of California, Santa CruzUniversity of California, Santa BarbaraUniversity of California, BerkeleyUCLAUniversity of California, IrvineUC Davis

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to University of California, Riverside

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

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  1. 01
    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

  2. 02
    University of California, Irvine uci.edu Top 10K English

    UC Irvine

    Homepage for the University of California, Irvine

  3. 03
    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.

  4. 04
    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.

  5. 05

    public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California

  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
    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 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…

  10. 10
    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.

  11. 11

    public university (1983-)

  12. 12
    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.

  13. 13
    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.

  14. 14

    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.

  15. 15
    University College London ucl.ac.uk Top 10K English

    public research university in London, England, United Kingdom

  16. 16
    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.

  17. 17
    UChicago uchicago.edu Top 10K

    UChicago - Error 403

    private university in Chicago, Illinois

  18. 18
    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.

  19. 19
    University of Colorado Boulder colorado.edu Top 10K English

    Home | University of Colorado Boulder

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

  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 ucr.edu’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones University of California, Riverside uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What University of California, Riverside 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 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
Fonts
  • Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Montserrat:700|Roboto+Slab:400,700|Roboto:400,700
Tag managers
CDN
  • cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/countup.js/2.3.2/countUp.umd.js
  • Fastly header x-served-by: cache-chi-klot8100172-CHI, cache-ber1080041-BER, cache-ber1…
  • unpkg asset https://unpkg.com/aos@next/dist/aos.js
Hosting
  • Pantheon header x-pantheon-styx-hostname: styx-us-a-684cbff7d7-k8j47
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx
Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by Drupal (header x-generator: Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org))
Video
Email hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=0d004b3b9e3130128986e6fbb66757e67a75d2e38…
  • Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=zZ29H5tGTTnILROa
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=xwXLCiegRqkVWguzcwCuSJWdY5KmPENuhzNIBAp…
  • DocuSign TXT docusign=acb05d0b-d7cd-4c47-98f1-22f5e2e8f08d
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=MjpO_84XM9V0G0_nC5DEsnmDY140YL5Edk13s0Bfzm0
  • Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=i2ju7kod8x8aoi77gw4vu40o317swp

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