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Rank School name Tuition Total graduate engineering enrollment Additional data
#94 George Washington University

Washington, DC

$1,340 per credit (full-time) 1,542

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#38 University of Rochester

Rochester, NY

$1,340 per credit (full-time) 547
#1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA

$41,770 per year (full-time) 3,163
#28 Duke University (Pratt)

Durham, NC

$42,350 per year (full-time) 944
#45 University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, IN

$42,350 per year (full-time) 501
#38 Boston University

Boston, MA

$42,400 per year (full-time) 857
#48 Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, MO

$42,500 per year (full-time) 775
#48 Brown University

Providence, RI

$42,808 per year (full-time) 323
#105 Tulane University

New Orleans, LA

$43,300 per year (full-time) 83
#38 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Troy, NY

$43,350 per year (full-time) 831
#20 Northwestern University (McCormick)

Evanston, IL

$43,380 per year (full-time) 1,669
#55 Dartmouth College (Thayer)

Hanover, NH

$43,782 per year (full-time) 289
#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
#15 Columbia University (Fu Foundation)

New York, NY

$47,340 per year (full-time) 2,525
#116 University of Miami

Coral Gables, FL

$1,660 per credit (full-time) 257
#36 Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN

$1,712 per credit (full-time) 457
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
Rank Not Published University of Texas​‒​El Paso

El Paso, TX

N/A 548

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