Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Yale University
The 20 closest higher education alternatives to Yale University, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 18 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Yale University? The closest matches are New York University, Columbia University and University of Pennsylvania. 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 Yale University
Yale University yale.edu
Yale University
Since its founding in 1701, Yale University has been dedicated to expanding and sharing knowledge, inspiring innovation, and preserving cultural and scientific information for future generations.
Wikidata: private university in New Haven, Connecticut
Summary by Claude
Official website of Yale University, a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, offering undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs, research news, and information on its museums, observatory and cultural programs.
- Who it’s for
- Prospective students, students, faculty, researchers, alumni
- Business model
- Tuition, endowment and research grants
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Yale University’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 Yale University
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Yale University, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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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.
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private university in New York City, New York, US
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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.
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Dartmouth
One of the world's greatest academic institutions and a member of the Ivy League, Dartmouth has been educating leaders since 1769. Our undergraduate and graduate programs are distinguished by academic excellence, personal attention from top faculty, opportunities to participate in research, and a close-knit community.
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private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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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.
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The University of Iowa
Join a global community of renowned artists, pioneering scientists, and faculty dedicated to student success at the University of Iowa.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
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Brown University
Brown is a leading research university, home to world-renowned faculty and also an innovative educational institution where the curiosity, creativity and intellectual joy of students drives academic excellence.
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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.
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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.
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UChicago - Error 403
private university in Chicago, Illinois
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Homepage | Boston University
Boston University is a leading private research institution with two primary campuses in the heart of Boston and programs around the world.
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Welcome - Iowa State University
Iowa State University — where innovation is in the making. Experience hands-on learning, cutting-edge research, and endless opportunities for your future.
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Northwestern University
Northwestern is one of the country’s leading private research and teaching universities, located in Evanston, IL. Our highly collaborative environment provides our diverse students and faculty with exceptional opportunities for personal and professional growth.
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Cornell University
Cornell University is a private research university that provides an exceptional education for undergraduates and graduate and professional students. Cornell's colleges and schools encompass more than 100 fields of study, with locations in Ithaca, New York, New York City and Doha, Qatar.
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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, Berkeley: Home
UC Berkeley pushes the boundaries of knowledge, challenges convention and expands opportunity to create the leaders of tomorrow.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to yale.edu’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Yale University uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Yale University 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 7 (https://www.drupal.org)
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- Monitoring
- New Relic page source: NREUM
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-chi-kigq8000138-CHI, cache-ber1080045-BER, cache-ber1…
- Hosting
- Pantheon header x-pantheon-styx-hostname: styx-us-a-684cbff7d7-r8skf
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by Drupal (header x-generator: Drupal 7 (https://www.drupal.org))
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX yale-edu.mail.protection.outlook.com
- Email delivery
- Brevo TXT brevo-code:d66805a3df437fba6bf7d701b26c2ea6
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=8bd714ff-27d9-412f-a336-011607c5921d
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=dMzGvQ6scQb/L03OUQRXV586QJ9lo0steL1LuP4…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=OnZfRkq6vky-DOdzFtAQhg
- DocuSign TXT docusign=e8f08e07-8b40-4ae4-a8cf-7ce972d4b382
- Dropbox TXT dropbox-domain-verification=y270qicvbi7s
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=bCh0qosscWOo9bk7i8mSUwbO7xo1L0zhM466fQLYVys
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=4b2v2cdl4pnhet6qnrtzuof73xy5ic
Stack changes
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What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Microsoft 365 18/20
- Atlassian 17/20
- Adobe 14/20
- Google Tag Manager 14/20
- OpenAI · not on yale.edu 14/20
- jQuery 14/20
- Apple Business · not on yale.edu 12/20
- DocuSign 11/20
- PHP 10/20
- Brevo 9/20
- nginx 7/20
- Proofpoint · not on yale.edu 6/20
- Google Workspace · not on yale.edu 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on yale.edu 5/20
- Drupal 5/20