2024 Expensive Graduate Schools Rankings
For 2,298 graduate schools, Brooklyn Law School has the most expensive graduate tuition & fees ($70,356) and University of Southern California has the second highest tuition & fees ($68,128) based on academic year 2023-2024 costs data.
The below table ranks and compares the Expensive Graduate Schools having expensive tuition & fees (based on out-of-state rate). For the graduate school ranking, we include only schools with more than 1,000 graduate students and less than 50% online students.
Expensive Graduate Schools
The following table lists the 25 expensive graduate schools ordered by highest graduate tuition & fees.. You can sort the table by a column as you want.
| Rank | College Name | In-State Tuition | Out-of-State Tuition | Graduate Student Population | Number of Graduate Programs Offered | Number of Online Graduate Programs | Number of Faculties (Full-time) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brooklyn Law School Brooklyn, NY | $50,681 | $70,356 | 1,210 | 2 | 1 | 65 |
| 2 | University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA | $44,013 | $68,128 | 28,246 | 255 | 17 | 2,403 |
| 3 | Brown University Providence, RI | $53,205 | $67,006 | 3,550 | 175 | 1 | 884 |
| 4 | MGH Institute of Health Professions Boston, MA | - | $66,815 | 1,213 | 15 | 4 | 97 |
| 5 | University of Chicago Chicago, IL | $57,000 | $66,543 | 10,744 | 144 | 2 | 2,376 |
| 6 | Tulane University of Louisiana New Orleans, LA | $52,960 | $66,046 | 5,242 | 167 | 13 | 1,440 |
| 7 | Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD | $54,050 | $65,956 | 25,231 | 190 | 37 | 3,856 |
| 8 | Boston University Boston, MA | $51,716 | $64,712 | 18,255 | 276 | 3 | 3,047 |
| 9 | Dartmouth College Hanover, NH | $51,792 | $64,068 | 2,286 | 48 | 1 | 718 |
| 10 | Duke University Durham, NC | $52,617 | $63,985 | 11,383 | 169 | 18 | 4,074 |
| 11 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | $63,393 | $63,393 | 7,201 | 81 | - | 1,375 |
| 12 | California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA | $49,785 | $63,063 | 1,419 | 59 | - | 357 |
| 13 | Princeton University Princeton, NJ | $48,940 | $62,860 | 3,238 | 88 | - | 997 |
| 14 | University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN | $51,336 | $62,502 | 4,134 | 98 | 2 | 1,210 |
| 15 | Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis, MO | $51,025 | $62,366 | 8,880 | 160 | 5 | 1,717 |
| 16 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY | $53,757 | $61,873 | 1,066 | 94 | - | 414 |
| 17 | Brandeis University Waltham, MA | $48,808 | $61,578 | 1,894 | 65 | 7 | 387 |
| 18 | Stanford University Stanford, CA | $49,617 | $59,499 | 10,234 | 170 | 2 | 3,724 |
| 19 | Georgetown University Washington, DC | $48,331 | $59,306 | 13,084 | 147 | 14 | 1,251 |
| 20 | University of Denver Denver, CO | $47,823 | $58,347 | 7,583 | 167 | 6 | 742 |
| 21 | Samuel Merritt University Oakland, CA | $49,040 | $58,126 | 1,207 | 9 | 5 | 180 |
| 22 | Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY | $43,840 | $57,764 | 2,675 | 78 | 15 | 1,012 |
| 23 | Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY | $46,956 | $56,279 | 25,880 | 236 | 8 | 4,327 |
| 24 | Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN | $46,297 | $56,128 | 6,559 | 188 | 14 | 1,249 |
| 25 | Harvard University Cambridge, MA | $45,958 | $55,440 | 21,263 | 292 | 8 | 2,120 |
| Average | $16,133 | $20,153 | 3,241,950 | 28 | 7 | 586,097 |