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University Ranking of Graduate Engineering Schools: U.S News Rank 2008

Rank/School	average GRE score (Quant.)	'07-'08 out of state tution	'07 accept- ance rate score	'07 engineering school research expenditures (in millions)	Ph.D.'s granted 06-07	'07 total graduate engineering enrollment
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	777	$34,750	23.5%	$237.7	328	2,636
2. Stanford University Stanford, CA	780	$37,110	28.0%	$152.3	276	3,229
3. University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA	772	$14,998	20.4%	$120.3	223	1,780
4. Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA	767	$22,188	36.8%	$219.4	366	4,303
5. University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign Urbana, IL	774	$24,644	19.2%	$195.2	270	2,479
6. California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA	800	$29,940	131%	$84.9	112	536
7. Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA	765	$34,000	21.8%	$161.5	137	1,698
8. University of Southern California (Viterbi) Los Angeles, CA	753	$22,734	46.6%	$165.0	144	3,945
9. Cornell University Ithaca, NY	775	$32,800	19.8%	$108.0	128	1,378
9. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	770	$33,372	36.4%	$147.8	255	2,416
11. University of California-San Diego (Jacobs) La Jolla, CA	765	$14,694	25.0%	$141.0	132	1,213
11. University of Texas-Austin (Cockrell) Austin, TX	759	$11,748	22.5%	$135.2	191	2,100
13. Texas A&M University-College Station (Look) College Station, TX	756	$8,712	37.2%	$205.7	173	2,428
13. University of California-Los Angeles (Samueli) Los Angeles, CA	768	$22,428	36.0%	$86.3	157	1,388
15. Purdue University-West Lafayette , IN	751	$22,438	32.5%	$133.8	228	2,323
15. University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI	781	$24,910	23.5%	$125.6	139	1,524
17. University of Maryland-College Park (Clark) College Park, MD	758	$16,578	22.5%	$136.1	182	1,862
18. Princeton University Princeton, NJ	783	$34,050	16.5%	$52.9	88	519
19. University of California-Santa Barbara , CA	773	$14,988	28.3%	$92.3	95	724
20. Northwestern University (Mcormick) Evanston, IL	779	$35,064	28.1%	$97.1	110	1,255
21. Columbia University (Fu Foundation) New York, NY	775	$35,520	27.6%	$87.2	93	1,433
22. Harvard University Cambridge, MA	775	$31,456	13.0%	$37.9	47	355
23. Pennsylvania State University (PA)	752	$26,050	31.9%	$111.6	167	1,720
24. University of Florida Gainesville, FL	758	$22,603	36.9%	$108.1	187	2,474
24. University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN	766	$16,838	32.8%	$84.1	144	1,790
24. University of Washington Seattle, WA	736	$21,464	28.8%	$97.4	111	1,423
27. Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	768	$35,900	24.4%	$56.9	69	2,661
28. Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA	749	$13,556	21.6%	$107.3	139	1,807
29. Ohio State University Columbus, OH	762	$24,486	37.4%	$113.4	119	1,347
30. North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC	756	$17,684	26.6%	$104.4	138	2,125
30. University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	759	$34,064	35.0%	$51.1	69	1,111
32. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY	752	$34,900	31.1%	$85.2	114	1,052
32. University of California-Davis (CA)	749	$24,639	35.6%	$68.3	111	1,124
32. University of Rochester (NY)	769	$34,000	15.5%	$91.7	46	451
35. Duke University Durham, NC	767	$29,340	34.1%	$63.6	63	648
35. Rice University Houston, TX	768	$24,564	15.2%	$34.8	56	521
37. University of California-Irvine (Samueli), CA	758	$24,934	25.8%	$66.2	92	984
38. University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA	749	$19,133	19.4%	$55.3	72	737
39. University of Colorado-Boulder Boulder, CO	757	$23,576	57.6%	$51.3	92	1,298
39. Yale University New Haven, CT	772	$30,500	14.8%	$20.8	20	172
41. Iowa State University Ames, IA	759	$16,906	21.9%	$65.4	82	956
42. Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA	767	$ 990 / credit hr.	22.1%	$33.0	43	568
42. Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN	754	$ 1,434/ credit hr.	12.5%	$46.4	39	406
44. Boston University Boston, MA	763	$34,930	26.3%	$70.2	68	664
45. Arizona State University (Fulton) Tempe, AZ	763	$17,920	51.2%	$53.4	109	2,019
46. University of Delaware Newark, DE	748	$18,590	27.4%	$43.9	70	629
46. Washington University in St. Louis (server), MO	768	$34,500	14.7%	$19.7	42	759
48. University of Pittsburgh, PA	731	$30,908	35.8%	$62.1	49	641
49. Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH	732	$22,356	34.2%	$36.7	48	612
49. University of Massachusetts-Amherst , MA	760	$ 9,937	22.4%	$45.0	71	665
49. University of Notre Dame, IN	763	$34,580	20.8%	$18.4	56	401
52. Brown University, RI	N/A	$35,584	12.9%	$16.20	N/A	261
52. Drexel University, PA	758	$22,545	32.6%	$ 35.72	N/A	1,150
52. Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, NJ	N/A	$18,406	27.1%	$ 47.43	N/A	883
52. University at Buffalo, NY	760	$10,920	30.3%	$ 51.88	N/A	1,015
52. University of Arizona , AZ	719	$16,574	33.2%	$39.13	N/A	961
57. Dartmouth College (Thayer) , NH	766	$34,965	22.4%	$18.64	N/A	212
57. SUNY-Stony Brook , NY	759	$10,920	35.5%	$25.09	N/A	908
57. Dartmouth College (Thayer) , NH	766	$34,965	22.4%	$18.64	N/A	212
59. Michigan State University , MI	742	$800 (per credit hours)	11.7%	$29.50	N/A	583
59. University of Utah, UT	743	$12,177	43.72 %	$29.50	N/A	857

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Source: US News Rank