Best Engineering Schools

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Rank School name Tuition Total graduate engineering enrollment Additional data
#67 Drexel University

Philadelphia, PA

$28,215 per year (full-time) 1,128

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#9 University of Southern California (Viterbi)

Los Angeles, CA

$28,242 per year (full-time) 4,398
#72 Stevens Institute of Technology (Schaefer)

Hoboken, NJ

$28,800 per year (full-time) 1,728
#13 Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

$29,500 per year (full-time) 1,768
#132 Marquette University

Milwaukee, WI

$985 per credit (full-time) 193
Rank Not Published St. Louis University (Parks)

St. Louis, MO

$990 per credit (full-time) 58
#119 University of Tulsa

Tulsa, OK

$1,035 per credit (full-time) 200
#124 Southern Methodist University

Dallas, TX

$1,095 per credit (full-time) 875
#72 Illinois Institute of Technology (Armour)

Chicago, IL

$1,119 per credit (full-time) 1,450
Rank Not Published Florida Institute of Technology

Melbourne, FL

$1,123 per credit (full-time) 686
#34 Yale University

New Haven, CT

$35,500 per year (full-time) 217
#102 Rochester Institute of Technology (Gleason)

Rochester, NY

$35,976 per year (full-time) 612
#32 Rice University (Brown)

Houston, TX

$36,610 per year (full-time) 716
Rank Not Published Catholic University of America

Washington, DC

$36,630 per year (full-time) 196
#51 Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, OH

$37,120 per year (full-time) 633
#76 Syracuse University

Syracuse, NY

$1,249 per credit (full-time) 862
#23 Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

$37,576 per year (full-time) 404
#116 Clarkson University

Potsdam, NY

$1,259 per credit (full-time) 210
#45 Lehigh University (Rossin)

Bethlehem, PA

$1,260 per credit (full-time) 787
#4 California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, CA

$38,084 per year (full-time) 587
#57 Northeastern University

Boston, MA

$1,270 per credit (full-time) 2,295
Rank Not Published University of Denver

Denver, CO

$38,232 per year (full-time) 193
#17 Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

$38,650 per year (full-time) 574
#5 Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA

$38,900 per year (full-time) 2,857
#57 Polytechnic Institute of New York University

Brooklyn, NY

$1,304 per credit (full-time) 2,114

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