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#1 Vanderbilt University (Peabody)

Nashville, TN

$1,712 per credit (full-time) 808

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#2 Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

$1,000 per credit (full-time) 1,404
#3 Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

$38,480 per year (full-time) 945
#4 University of Texas​‒​Austin

Austin, TX

$8,402 per year (in-state, full-time); $16,338 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 1,225
#5 Stanford University

Stanford, CA

$41,250 per year (full-time) 380
#6 Teachers College, Columbia University

New York, NY

$1,286 per credit (full-time) 5,034
#7 University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

$42,224 per year (full-time) 1,222
#8 University of California​‒​Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

$11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $15,102 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 795
#8 University of Oregon

Eugene, OR

$13,230 per year (in-state, full-time); $20,898 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 677
#10 University of Wisconsin​‒​Madison

Madison, WI

$11,839 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,166 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 1,010
#11 University of Michigan​‒​Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, MI

$19,616 per year (in-state, full-time); $39,666 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 473
#12 University of California​‒​Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

$11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 344
#12 University of Washington

Seattle, WA

$13,623 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,241 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 971
#14 Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

$43,380 per year (full-time) 378
#15 Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI

$630 per credit (in-state, full-time); $1,206 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) 2,051
#16 Ohio State University

Columbus, OH

$11,336 per year (in-state, full-time); $28,648 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 1,161
#17 New York University (Steinhardt)

New York, NY

$32,808 per year (full-time) 3,451
#17 University of Southern California (Rossier)

Los Angeles, CA

$1,473 per credit (full-time) 1,993
#19 Boston College (Lynch)

Chestnut Hill, MA

$1,166 per credit (full-time) 861
#19 Indiana University​‒​Bloomington

Bloomington, IN

$397 per credit (in-state, full-time); $1,155 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) 919
#19 University of Illinois​‒​Urbana-Champaign

Champaign, IL

$11,432 per year (in-state, full-time); $24,698 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 936
#22 University of Kansas

Lawrence, KS

$330 per credit (in-state, full-time); $772 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) 962
#22 University of Virginia (Curry)

Charlottesville, VA

$13,278 per year (in-state, full-time); $22,602 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 949
#24 Arizona State University

Phoenix, AZ

$10,002 per year (in-state, full-time); $24,550 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 2,462
#24 Utah State University

Logan, UT

$4,294 per year (in-state, full-time); $15,030 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 1,010

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