| Rank | School name | Tuition | Total graduate engineering enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA |
$49,580 per year (full-time) | 3,126 |
| #2 |
Stanford University Stanford, CA |
$52,188 per year (full-time) | 3,642 |
| #3 |
University of California—Berkeley Berkeley, CA |
$11,502 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,604 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,264 |
| #4Tie |
California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA |
N/A | 574 |
| #4Tie |
University of Michigan—Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI |
$25,472 per year (in-state, full-time); $47,894 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,687 |
| #6 |
Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA |
$43,000 per year (full-time) | 4,050 |
| #7Tie |
Purdue University—West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN |
$10,332 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,134 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,792 |
| #8Tie |
Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA |
$13,968 per year (in-state, full-time); $28,568 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 11,186 |
| #9 |
University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL |
N/A | 4,096 |
| #10Tie |
University of Southern California (Viterbi) Los Angeles, CA |
$1,937 per credit (full-time) | 5,702 |
| #10Tie |
University of Texas—Austin (Cockrell) Austin, TX |
$10,146 per year (in-state, full-time); $18,570 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,308 |
| #12Tie |
Columbia University (Fu Foundation) New York, NY |
$44,864 per year (full-time) | 3,487 |
| #12Tie |
Texas A&M University—College Station College Station, TX |
$272 per credit (in-state, full-time); $710 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,630 |
| #12Tie |
University of California—San Diego (Jacobs) La Jolla, CA |
$11,502 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,604 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,781 |
| #15 |
Cornell University Ithaca, NY |
$29,500 per year (full-time) | 2,222 |
| #16 |
University of California—Los Angeles (Samueli) Los Angeles, CA |
$11,502 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,604 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,265 |
| #17 |
Princeton University Princeton, NJ |
$48,940 per year (full-time) | 624 |
| #18Tie |
Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) Baltimore, MD |
$52,170 per year (full-time) | 4,101 |
| #18Tie |
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA |
$33,604 per year (full-time) | 1,849 |
| #20Tie |
Northwestern University (McCormick) Evanston, IL |
$69,652 per year (full-time) | 2,141 |
| #20Tie |
University of Wisconsin—Madison Madison, WI |
$10,728 per year (in-state, full-time); $24,054 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,855 |
| #22Tie |
Harvard University Cambridge, MA |
$44,816 per year (full-time) | 524 |
| #22Tie |
University of Maryland—College Park (Clark) College Park, MD |
$13,660 per year (in-state, full-time); $31,070 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,215 |
| #24Tie |
North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC |
$8,492 per year (in-state, full-time); $23,967 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,359 |
| #24Tie |
University of California—Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA |
$12,630 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,732 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 766 |