2025 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 | 1,174 | 2 | 1 | 68 |
| 2 | University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA | $44,013 | $68,128 | 26,124 | 255 | 17 | 2,442 |
| 3 | Brown University Providence, RI | $53,205 | $67,006 | 3,775 | 175 | 1 | 1,005 |
| 4 | MGH Institute of Health Professions Boston, MA | - | $66,815 | 1,173 | 15 | 4 | 108 |
| 5 | University of Chicago Chicago, IL | $57,000 | $66,543 | 10,696 | 144 | 2 | 2,755 |
| 6 | Tulane University of Louisiana New Orleans, LA | $52,960 | $66,046 | 5,001 | 167 | 13 | 1,565 |
| 7 | Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD | $54,050 | $65,956 | 24,273 | 190 | 37 | 4,020 |
| 8 | Boston University Boston, MA | $51,716 | $64,712 | 17,968 | 276 | 3 | 3,236 |
| 9 | Dartmouth College Hanover, NH | $51,792 | $64,068 | 2,299 | 48 | 1 | 737 |
| 10 | Duke University Durham, NC | $52,617 | $63,985 | 10,624 | 169 | 18 | 4,280 |
| 11 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | $63,393 | $63,393 | 7,344 | 81 | - | 1,391 |
| 12 | University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN | $51,336 | $62,502 | 4,206 | 98 | 2 | 1,305 |
| 13 | Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis, MO | $51,025 | $62,366 | 8,233 | 160 | 5 | 1,895 |
| 14 | Brandeis University Waltham, MA | $48,808 | $61,578 | 1,627 | 65 | 7 | 405 |
| 15 | Stanford University Stanford, CA | $49,617 | $59,499 | 10,392 | 170 | 2 | 4,218 |
| 16 | Georgetown University Washington, DC | $48,331 | $59,306 | 12,424 | 147 | 14 | 1,340 |
| 17 | University of Denver Denver, CO | $47,823 | $58,347 | 6,972 | 167 | 6 | 779 |
| 18 | Samuel Merritt University Oakland, CA | $49,040 | $58,126 | 1,153 | 9 | 5 | 163 |
| 19 | Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY | $43,840 | $57,764 | 2,787 | 78 | 15 | 1,057 |
| 20 | Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY | $46,956 | $56,279 | 26,168 | 236 | 8 | 4,683 |
| 21 | Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN | $46,297 | $56,128 | 6,304 | 188 | 14 | 1,360 |
| 22 | Harvard University Cambridge, MA | $45,958 | $55,440 | 21,291 | 292 | 8 | 2,117 |
| 23 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI | $27,524 | $55,052 | 18,335 | 276 | 11 | 7,096 |
| 24 | Babson College Wellesley, MA | $76,625 | $54,600 | 1,191 | 4 | - | 200 |
| 25 | Rice University Houston, TX | $38,381 | $54,462 | 3,982 | 93 | - | 779 |
| Average | $16,133 | $20,153 | 3,280,738 | 28 | 7 | 600,873 |