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Rank	School name	Tuition	Total graduate engineering enrollment	Additional data
#38	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY	$43,350 per year (full-time)	831	U.S. News Engineering School Compass Get the U.S. News Engineering School Compass to unlock more data columns. Access the complete rankings and more to find the right engineering school for you. Expanded profiles for all schools All entering class stats, including average GRE scores Research Expenditures All college data included (access good for one year) Get Access Already a member? Login here
#32	Rice University (Brown) Houston, TX	$36,610 per year (full-time)	716
#102	Rochester Institute of Technology (Gleason) Rochester, NY	$35,976 per year (full-time)	612
#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
#132	San Diego State University San Diego, CA	$6,738 per year (in-state, full-time); $372 per credit (out-of-state, full-time)	264
#143	Santa Clara University Santa Clara, CA	$805 per credit (full-time)	673
#140	South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Rapid City, SD	$197 per credit (in-state, full-time); $417 per credit (out-of-state, full-time)	243
Rank Not Published	South Dakota State University Brookings, SD	$196 per credit (in-state, full-time); $368 per credit (out-of-state, full-time)	217
Rank Not Published	Southern Illinois University‒Carbondale Carbondale, IL	$375 per credit (in-state, full-time); $938 per credit (out-of-state, full-time)	304
#124	Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX	$1,095 per credit (full-time)	875
Rank Not Published	St. Louis University (Parks) St. Louis, MO	$990 per credit (full-time)	58
#2	Stanford University Stanford, CA	$43,950 per year (full-time)	3,548
#72	Stevens Institute of Technology (Schaefer) Hoboken, NJ	$28,800 per year (full-time)	1,728
#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
Rank Not Published	SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Syracuse, NY	$9,370 per year (in-state, full-time); $16,680 per year (out-of-state, full-time)	97
#76	Syracuse University Syracuse, NY	$1,249 per credit (full-time)	862
#126	Temple University Philadelphia, PA	$795 per credit (in-state, full-time); $1,068 per credit (out-of-state, full-time)	210
Rank Not Published	Tennessee State University Nashville, TN	$6,426 per year (in-state, full-time); $18,954 per year (out-of-state, full-time)	73
Rank Not Published	Tennessee Technological University Cookeville, TN	$8,040 per year (in-state, full-time); $19,640 per year (out-of-state, full-time)	150
#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
Rank Not Published	Texas A&M University‒Kingsville (Dotterweich) Kingsville, TX	$3,228 per year (in-state, full-time); $7,704 per year (out-of-state, full-time)	437
#97	Texas Tech University (Whitacre) Lubbock, TX	$253 per credit (in-state, full-time); $604 per credit (out-of-state, full-time)	725
#72	Tufts University Medford, MA	$26,428 per year (full-time)	622
#105	Tulane University New Orleans, LA	$43,300 per year (full-time)	83
Rank Not Published	Tuskegee University Tuskegee, AL	$18,100 per year (full-time)	60

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