| Rank | School name | Location | Score | Tuition | Total graduate engineering enrollment |
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | 5 | $41,770 per year (full-time) | 3,163 |
| 2 | University of California‒Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | 4.9 | $11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,837 |
| 3 | Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA | 4.7 | $38,900 per year (full-time) | 2,857 |
| 4 | University of Illinois‒Urbana-Champaign | Urbana, IL | 4.6 | $16,352 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,618 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,975 |
| 5 | Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | 4.2 | $29,500 per year (full-time) | 1,768 |
| 5 | Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA | 4.2 | $10,584 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,860 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 4,651 |
| 5 | University of Michigan‒Ann Arbor | Ann Arbor, MI | 4.2 | $22,518 per year (in-state, full-time); $41,914 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,184 |
| 5 | University of Texas‒Austin (Cockrell) | Austin, TX | 4.2 | $9,564 per year (in-state, full-time); $17,506 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,425 |
| 9 | Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | 4.1 | $38,650 per year (full-time) | 574 |
| 10 | Purdue University‒West Lafayette | West Lafayette, IN | 4 | $10,332 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,134 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,070 |
| 11 | University of Wisconsin‒Madison | Madison, WI | 3.9 | $11,839 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,166 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,903 |
