Alternatives and competitors
Sites like LMU
The 20 closest public research university alternatives to LMU, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 4 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to LMU? The closest matches are TUM, uni-koeln.de and University of Hamburg. 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 LMU
LMU uni-muenchen.de
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.
Summary by Claude
Official website of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), a large public research university in Germany, providing information on degree programs, admissions, research, news and careers.
- Who it’s for
- Prospective and current students, researchers, staff
- Business model
- Public funding and tuition
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to LMU’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 LMU
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to LMU, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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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 0.931 - 02
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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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.
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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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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).
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public research university in Moscow, Russia
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Start | Lunds universitet
Lunds universitet grundades 1666 och rankas återkommande som ett av världens 100 främsta lärosäten. Här finns cirka 46 000 studenter och mer än 8 000 medarbetare.
Close cos 0.893 - 09
Universität Zürich | Universität Zürich | UZH
Die Universität Zürich gehört zu den besten Forschungsuniversitäten Europas und bietet das breiteste Angebot an Studienfächern in der Schweiz.
Very close cos 0.895 - 10
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
public university in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
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Home | Goethe University Frankfurt
Discover everything about Goethe University Frankfurt: course offerings, research, campus life, and services for students and researchers.
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RWTH Aachen University | Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule | EN
Die RWTH Aachen ist ein Ort, an dem die Zukunft unserer industrialisierten Welt gedacht wird - Thinking the Future
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public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan
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public research university in Mexico
Close cos 0.891 - 15 uni-heidelberg.de Top 10K
Heidelberg University - Zukunft seit 1386
public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Close cos 0.890 - 16
Homepage | Mizzou
public research university in Columbia, Missouri, USA
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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.
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state university system in Minnesota, United States
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The material you are trying to access is forbidden.
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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.
Close cos 0.888
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to uni-muenchen.de’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones LMU uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What LMU 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://cms-cdn.lmu.de/assets/scripts/jquery-3.5.1.min.js
- Analytics
- Matomo page source: _paq.push(
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=5f640a36a4617cdf45ba9d343d1eecd73a2eecb1e…
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what LMU adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on uni-muenchen.de 17/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on uni-muenchen.de 11/20
- Adobe 10/20
- Apple Business · not on uni-muenchen.de 9/20
- jQuery 8/20
- Apache HTTP Server 7/20
- PHP · not on uni-muenchen.de 6/20
- Atlassian · not on uni-muenchen.de 6/20
- Matomo 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on uni-muenchen.de 5/20
- Zoom · not on uni-muenchen.de 4/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on uni-muenchen.de 4/20
- Brevo · not on uni-muenchen.de 3/20
- nginx · not on uni-muenchen.de 3/20
- Drupal · not on uni-muenchen.de 3/20
- DocuSign · not on uni-muenchen.de 3/20