Rank

School name

Location

Score

Tuition

Total graduate

 engineering 

enrollment

#1

University of California—​Berkeley 

Berkeley, CA

4.7

$11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

1,936

#2

University of Illinois—​Urbana-​Champaign 

Urbana, IL

4.6

$17,126 per year (in-state, full-time); $30,848 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

3,316

#3

Stanford University 

Stanford, CA

4.5

$47,073 per year (full-time)

3,558

#3

University of Texas—​Austin (Cockrell) 

Austin, TX

4.5

$9,564 per year (in-state, full-time); $17,506 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

2,374

#5

Georgia Institute of Technology 

Atlanta, GA

4.4

$12,344 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,600 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

6,136

#6

Purdue University—​West Lafayette 

West Lafayette, IN

4.2

$10,322 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,134 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

3,409

#7

University of Michigan—​Ann Arbor 

Ann Arbor, MI

4.1

$22,868 per year (in-state, full-time); $43,024 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

3,212

#8

Massachusetts Institute 

of Technology 

Cambridge, MA

4.0

$44,720 per year (full-time)

3,143

#9

Carnegie Mellon University 

Pittsburgh, PA

3.9

$41,000 per year (full-time)

3,400

#9

Cornell University 

Ithaca, NY

3.9

$29,500 per year (full-time)

1,966

#9

Virginia Tech 

Blacksburg, VA

3.9

$14,545 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,754 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

2,045