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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	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
#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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