Alternatives and competitors

Sites like USP

The 20 closest Public research university alternatives to USP, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 14 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to USP? The closest matches are University of California, Santa Barbara, tjsp.jus.br and University of South Florida. 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.

Neighbours: k = 20
Sites searched: 4,032
Vector: 384-d
Query: 16 ms

01 · Entity

About USP

USP usp.br

# USP – Universidade de São Paulo # – Universidade pública, autarquia ligada à Secretaria de Estado de Ensino Superior de São Paulo

Wikidata: public state university in Brazil

Top 10K · #3,196 Portuguese 14 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

Visit USP

Summary by Claude

Official website of the University of São Paulo, a public state research university in Brazil, providing information on undergraduate and graduate admissions, academic units, research, cultural and extension programs, campuses, and university news and publications.

Who it’s for: Students, prospective applicants, researchers, staff, and the public
Business model: Public funding (state university)

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

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

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

Only in Portuguese

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University of California, Santa Barbara ucsb.edu Top 10K English

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!
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tjsp.jus.br Top 10K Portuguese

Home

highest body of the judiciary in the state of São Paulo
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University of South Florida usf.edu Top 10K English

Welcome to the University of South Florida | Tampa, St. Petersburg, FL

The University of South Florida (USF) is a high-impact, global research university dedicated to student success serving Tampa and St. Petersburg.
Very close cos 0.904
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University of California, Santa Cruz ucsc.edu Top 10K English

public University of California campus in Santa Cruz
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University of Oslo uio.no Top 10K Norwegian

Forsiden - Universitetet i Oslo

Universitetet i Oslo er det eldste og høyest rangerte universitetet i Norge. Universitetet har over 26 000 studenter og 7000 ansatte. UiO har ledende forskningsmiljøer og landets bredeste studietilbud.
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SciELO Brasil scielo.br Top 10K English

Brazil

digital library
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University of Toronto utoronto.ca Top 10K English

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The University of Toronto - Error 403
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University at Buffalo buffalo.edu Top 10K English

Welcome to the University at Buffalo - University at Buffalo

Explore New York's flagship. The University at Buffalo, the top public university in the state, combines superior academics with true affordability.
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National University of Singapore nus.edu.sg Top 10K

autonomous research university in Singapore
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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.
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Florida State University fsu.edu Top 10K English

Florida State University

FSU, designated a preeminent university in the state of Florida, is one of the most respected research and learning institutions in the country.
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www.gov.br Top 1K English

Home — Planalto

country in South America
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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.
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University of California, San Francisco ucsf.edu Top 10K English

public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California
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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.
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University of Alberta ualberta.ca Top 10K

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public research university in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Pennsylvania State University psu.edu Top 10K English

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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University of New South Wales unsw.edu.au Top 10K English

UNSW Sydney | Australia's #1 university

UNSW is ranked 1st in Australia overall and for employment outcomes. Browse our range of study options and find the perfect one for you.
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University of Bologna unibo.it Top 10K English

University of Bologna

university in Bologna, Italy
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University of Florida ufl.edu Top 10K

public research university in Gainesville, Florida, United States
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to usp.br’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones USP uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What USP 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 6.2.15
JavaScript libraries: jQuery asset https://www5.usp.br/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?x80753&ver=3.6.4
CSS & UI: Font Awesome asset https://www5.usp.br/wp-content/plugins/elementor/assets/lib/font-awesome/js/v4-shims.min.…
Fonts: Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
Analytics: Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
Security: Cloudflare Turnstile page source: challenges.cloudflare.com/turnstile
reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/api.js
Web servers: Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache
Languages & backends: PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 6.2.15)
Email hosting: Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=3d0fa6faea996f27affdf872d7878e8de055cc8e6…
GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=BGGcnKJo2XudFvaFlsQS7wj0eHNlW2rti9_y4…
Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=doG9hHS-x68eyfg8VhLH1AkrYb_dl3k7i1j1weA7NlA
Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify__T-3IyYPSHyIWah1a_5IMA

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