rug.nl
rug.nl
Who runs rug.nl, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Higher education alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Utrecht University
Measured from rug.nl’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit rug.nl01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs rug.nl
rug.nl
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.
Wikidata: public research university in Groningen, Netherlands
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What rug.nl tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
7 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to rug.nl
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to rug.nl, thumbs down if it isn’t.
13 of the 60 sites closest to rug.nl match.
- 01
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Erasmus University Rotterdam is a highly ranked, international research university, based in the dynamic and diverse city of Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Very close - 02
Uppsala University
Welcome to Uppsala University Sweden! Quality, knowledge and creativity since 1477. World-class research and first-rate education of global use to society, business, and culture. Uppsala University is one of northern Europes most highly ranked universities.
Very close - 03
University of Copenhagen - University of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen, with approximately 40,000 students and 9,000 employees, is one of the largest research and educational institutions in the Nordic region.
Very close - 04
University of Vienna – study, research, live in Vienna
With more than 90,000 students, the University of Vienna is one of the largest universities in Europe. Discover our diverse range of degree programmes, excellent research and vibrant university life in the heart of Vienna.
Very close - 05
University of Leeds
The University of Leeds is a large UK higher education institution and part of the Russell Group of leading universities.
Very close - 06
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
Very close - 07
University of Innsbruck – Universität Innsbruck
None
Very close - 08
The London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE
LSE is a world-leading social science specialist university, awarded University of the Year 2025 and ranked 1st in London and the UK in 2025 and 2026.
Very close - 09
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).
Very close - 10
Home - Northeastern University
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global, experiential, research university built on a tradition of engagement with the world.
Very close - 11
Home | The University of Aberdeen
The University of Aberdeen, Scotland, is a UK Top 20 and World Top 250 University with outstanding levels of student satisfaction.
Very close - 12
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
public university in Mainz, Germany
Very close - 13
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.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles rug.nl’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones rug.nl uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what rug.nl adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,221
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 31 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to rug.nl’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). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.rug.nl/_definition/shared/js/jquery.js?version=2026-10-29
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- Languages & backends
- Java cookie JSESSIONID
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms97484282
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=pMjlXqlOTWrDjxV9AoW_MGyuGOV3lEAsQ7__vv525Ag
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Microsoft 365 16/20
- Apple Business · not on rug.nl 15/20
- PHP · not on rug.nl 12/20
- Atlassian · not on rug.nl 10/20
- Google Tag Manager 9/20
- Adobe · not on rug.nl 8/20
- jQuery 8/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on rug.nl 8/20
- Drupal · not on rug.nl 6/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on rug.nl 5/20
- Miro · not on rug.nl 5/20
- Zoom · not on rug.nl 5/20
- TYPO3 · not on rug.nl 5/20
- YouTube embeds · not on rug.nl 4/20
- Matomo · not on rug.nl 4/20