| Rank | School | Location | Tuition | Total graduate engineering enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | $41,770 per year (full-time) | 3163 |
| 2 | Stanford University | Stanford, CA | $43,950 per year (full-time) | 3548 |
| 3 | University of California‒Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | $11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1837 |
| 4 | California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | $38,084 per year (full-time) | 587 |
| 5 | Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA | $38,900 per year (full-time) | 2857 |
| 5 | Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA | $10,584 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,860 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 4651 |
| 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) | 2975 |
| 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) | 3070 |
| 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) | 3184 |
| 9 | University of Southern California (Viterbi) | Los Angeles, CA | $28,242 per year (full-time) | 4398 |
| 11 | Texas A&M University‒College Station (Look) | College Station, TX | $277 per credit (in-state, full-time); $577per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 2918 |
| 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) | 2425 |
| 13 | Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $29,500 per year (full-time) | 1768 |
| 14 | University of California‒San Diego (Jacobs) | La Jolla, CA | $11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1614 |
| 15 | Columbia University (Fu Foundation) | New York, NY | $47,340 per year (full-time) | 2525 |
| 16 | University of California‒Los Angeles (Samueli) | Los Angeles, CA | $12,562 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,664 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1776 |
| 17 | Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | $38,650 per year (full-time) | 574 |
| 18 | University of Wisconsin‒Madison | Madison, WI | $11,839 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,166 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1903 |
| 19 | University of Maryland‒College Park (Clark) | College Park, MD | $11,020 per year (in-state, full-time); $23,760 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2254 |
| 20 | Northwestern University (McCormick) | Evanston, IL | $43,380 per year (full-time) | 1669 |
| 20 | University of California‒Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA | $12,192 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,294 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 760 |
| 22 | University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $27,700 per year (full-time) | 1704 |
| 23 | Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | $37,576 per year (full-time) | 404 |
| 24 | Virginia Tech | Blacksburg, VA | $10,677 per year (in-state, full-time); $20,926 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2278 |
| 25 | Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) | Baltimore, MD | $43,930 per year (full-time) | 3434 |
| 25 | Pennsylvania State University‒University Park | University Park, PA | $18,672 per year (in-state, full-time); $31,512 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1863 |
