Alternatives and competitors

Sites like University of Virginia

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

Looking for an alternative to University of Virginia? The closest matches are University of Victoria, Virginia Tech and washington.edu. 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 Virginia

University of Virginia virginia.edu

The University of Virginia

Experience vibrant student life, unparalleled academic excellence, and the unique culture that makes UVA stand out.

Wikidata: public university in Charlottesville, Virginia

Top 10K · #2,789 English 18 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit University of Virginia

Summary by Claude

Official website of the University of Virginia, a public research university in Charlottesville founded by Thomas Jefferson, offering undergraduate, graduate and continuing education programs, research institutes and an academic health system.

Who it’s for
Prospective students, current students, faculty, alumni, researchers
Business model
Tuition, state funding, research grants and donations

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to University of Virginia’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

WashUUChicagoUniversity of PennsylvaniaHarvard UniversityUniversity of AlbertaDuke UniversityUniversity of Torontowashington.eduVirginia TechUniversity of Victoria

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to University of Virginia

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

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  1. 01
    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.

  2. 02
    Virginia Tech vt.edu Top 10K English

    Home | Virginia Tech

    public university with the main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia

  3. 03
    washington.edu Top 1K English

    UW Homepage – University of Washington

    public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States

  4. 04

    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.

  5. 05
    University of Toronto utoronto.ca Top 10K English

    ERROR 403: The request could not be satisfied

    The University of Toronto - Error 403

  6. 06
    Duke University duke.edu Top 10K English

    Duke University - Fueled by creativity, informed by scholarship

    Fueled by creativity, informed by scholarship

  7. 07
    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.

  8. 08
    University of Alberta ualberta.ca Top 10K

    ERROR: The request could not be satisfied

    public research university in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

  9. 09
    Harvard University harvard.edu Top 1K English

    Harvard University

    Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.

  10. 10
    University of Florida ufl.edu Top 10K

    public research university in Gainesville, Florida, United States

  11. 11
    University of Pennsylvania upenn.edu Top 10K English

    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.

  12. 12
    New York University nyu.edu Top 10K English

    New York University

    There's nothing like a crisp autumn day in New York to put a spring in your step, and at all of NYU's campuses and global sites, the fall presents an opportunity for renewed focus. That's something we're leaning into as a community through the NYU IRL initiative, which challenges us all to reclaim our time and attention so we can concentrate on what matters most. What will we notice when we look up from our devices? Here's to less checking and more connecting, to less following and more wandering.

  13. 13
    UChicago uchicago.edu Top 10K

    UChicago - Error 403

    private university in Chicago, Illinois

  14. 14
    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.

  15. 15
    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.

  16. 16
    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

  17. 17
    University of Melbourne unimelb.edu.au Top 10K English

    Australian public university located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  18. 18
    WashU wustl.edu Top 10K English

    Home | WashU

    At WashU, we’re connecting learners, thinkers, leaders and doers who inspire each other to ask big questions and find real solutions — together.

  19. 19
    University of Connecticut uconn.edu Top 10K English

    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.

  20. 20
    George Mason University gmu.edu Top 10K English

    A Top 50 Public R1 Research University | George Mason University

    George Mason University has become Virginia’s largest, most diverse, and highest-ranked university for innovation by rejecting the traditional university model of exclusivity. We proudly admit every student who is academically ready for our top-tier research environment while achieving graduation rates that surpass the national norm.

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

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What University of Virginia 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://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.7.1/jquery.min.js
CSS & UI
  • Font Awesome asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/6.5.0/css/all.min.css
Fonts
  • Adobe Fonts asset https://use.typekit.net/tgy5tlj.js?1
Analytics
Tag managers
Cookie consent
  • OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=d901adf09116474c89790a9752e0046c
CDN
  • cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/6.5.0/css/all.min.css
  • jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/slick-carousel@1.8.1/slick/slick.min.js
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx
Email hosting
  • Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 a mx ip4:52.254.56.82 ip4:52.137.91.139 ip4:128.143.125.90 ip4…
  • Microsoft 365 TXT v=spf1 a mx ip4:52.254.56.82 ip4:52.137.91.139 ip4:128.143.125.90 ip4…
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=mROwKUEMfwLBfltC
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=bWvCIIroKtwfKHzK85siobwKzklsKpQRBDsnpHA…
  • DocuSign TXT docusign=6547d080-1c40-427c-8736-fafa466ff73f
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=rePHmrM7FEfSw62DHq9TpuMFUw66J6hgpFFh5cq89IM
  • Miro TXT miro-verification=9f3238c881466b3ccb99c4347b99e5504eafc118
  • OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-azMq0AtSucP9q346upCqAwND
  • Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_PuU-eQzyQ7ONrij_vTP72A

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