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Rank	School name	Tuition	Total enrollment	Additional data
#1	Vanderbilt University (Peabody) Nashville, TN	$1,712 per credit (full-time)	808	U.S. News Education School Compass Get the U.S. News Education School Compass to unlock more data columns. Access the complete rankings data and more to find the right education school for you. Expanded profiles for all schools All entering class stats, including average GRE scores Amounts of externally funded research All college data included (access good for one year) Get Access Already a member? Login here
#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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