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#51 Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, OH

$37,120 per year (full-time) 633

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#51 Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI

$597 per credit (in-state, full-time); $1,173 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) 858
#51 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey​‒​New Brunswick

Piscataway, NJ

$15,024 per year (in-state, full-time); $24,600 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 1,004
#51 University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

$5,964 per year (in-state, full-time); $16,454 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 1,073
#55 Dartmouth College (Thayer)

Hanover, NH

$43,782 per year (full-time) 289
#55 University of Delaware

Newark, DE

$27,240 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,240 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 862
#57 Colorado School of Mines

Golden, CO

$13,590 per year (in-state, full-time); $28,620 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 1,343
#57 Northeastern University

Boston, MA

$1,270 per credit (full-time) 2,295
#57 Polytechnic Institute of New York University

Brooklyn, NY

$1,304 per credit (full-time) 2,114
#57 University of Massachusetts​‒​Amherst

Amherst, MA

$2,640 per year (in-state, full-time); $9,937 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 862
#61 University at Buffalo​‒​SUNY

Buffalo, NY

$9,370 per year (in-state, full-time); $16,680 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 1,324
#61 University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA

$7,900 per year (in-state, full-time); $24,064 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 418
#63 University of Dayton

Dayton, OH

$788 per credit (full-time) 689
#64 Stony Brook University​‒​SUNY

Stony Brook, NY

$9,370 per year (in-state, full-time); $16,680 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 1,433
#65 University of Illinois​‒​Chicago

Chicago, IL

$12,962 per year (in-state, full-time); $24,960 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 1,078
#65 University of Tennessee​‒​Knoxville

Knoxville, TN

$10,280 per year (in-state, full-time); $28,768 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 1,000
#67 Auburn University (Ginn)

Auburn University, AL

$7,866 per year (in-state, full-time); $23,598 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 851
#67 Colorado State University

Fort Collins, CO

$10,372 per year (in-state, full-time); $22,552 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 660
#67 Drexel University

Philadelphia, PA

$28,215 per year (full-time) 1,128
#67 University of California​‒​Riverside (Bourns)

Riverside, CA

$14,646 per year (in-state, full-time); $15,102 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 534
#67 University of Connecticut

Storrs, CT

$10,782 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,990 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 774
#72 Illinois Institute of Technology (Armour)

Chicago, IL

$1,119 per credit (full-time) 1,450
#72 Stevens Institute of Technology (Schaefer)

Hoboken, NJ

$28,800 per year (full-time) 1,728
#72 Tufts University

Medford, MA

$26,428 per year (full-time) 622
#72 University of Central Florida

Orlando, FL

$357 per credit (in-state, full-time); $1,182 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) 1,293

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