Best Engineering Schools

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Rank School name Tuition Total graduate engineering enrollment Additional data
#24 Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA

$10,677 per year (in-state, full-time); $20,926 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 2,278

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#57 Northeastern University

Boston, MA

$1,270 per credit (full-time) 2,295
#11 University of Texas​‒​Austin (Cockrell)

Austin, TX

$9,564 per year (in-state, full-time); $17,506 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 2,425
#15 Columbia University (Fu Foundation)

New York, NY

$47,340 per year (full-time) 2,525
#44 Arizona State University (Fulton)

Tempe, AZ

$10,001 per year (in-state, full-time); $24,549 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 2,692
#5 Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA

$38,900 per year (full-time) 2,857
#29 North Carolina State University

Raleigh, NC

$6,883 per year (in-state, full-time); $18,931 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 2,918
#11 Texas A&M University​‒​College Station (Look)

College Station, TX

$277 per credit (in-state, full-time); $577 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) 2,918
#38 University of Florida

Gainesville, FL

$12,589 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,983 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 2,967
#5 University of Illinois​‒​Urbana-Champaign

Urbana, IL

$16,352 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,618 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 2,975
#8 Purdue University​‒​West Lafayette

West Lafayette, IN

$10,332 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,134 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 3,070
#1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA

$41,770 per year (full-time) 3,163
#9 University of Michigan​‒​Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, MI

$22,518 per year (in-state, full-time); $41,914 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 3,184
#25 Johns Hopkins University (Whiting)

Baltimore, MD

$43,930 per year (full-time) 3,434
#2 Stanford University

Stanford, CA

$43,950 per year (full-time) 3,548
#9 University of Southern California (Viterbi)

Los Angeles, CA

$28,242 per year (full-time) 4,398
#5 Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, GA

$10,584 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,860 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 4,651
Unranked Air Force Institute of Technology

Wright Patterson AFB, OH

N/A N/A
Unranked Boise State University

Boise, ID

N/A N/A
Unranked Idaho State University

Pocatello, ID

N/A N/A
Unranked Naval Postgraduate School

Monterey, CA

N/A N/A
Unranked Oregon Health and Science University

Portland, OR

N/A N/A
Unranked University of Detroit Mercy

Detroit, MI

N/A N/A
Unranked University of Hawaii​‒​Manoa

Honolulu, HI

$8,488 per year (in-state, full-time); $19,528 per year (out-of-state, full-time) N/A

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