| Ranking | University | City | State | Tuition | Enrollment |
| #1 | Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore | MD | $53,740 | 6 |
| #2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge | MA | $51,832 | 4 |
| #3 | Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta | GA | $33,020 (out-of-state) | 1 |
| #4 | Duke University | Durham | NC | $55,960 | 6 |
| #5 | Stanford University | Stanford | CA | $51,354 | 7 |
| #6 | University of California--San Diego | La Jolla | CA | $42,074 (out-of-state) | 2 |
| #7 | University of California--Berkeley | Berkeley | CA | $43,232 (out-of-state) | 3 |
| #8 | Rice University | Houston | TX | $47,350 | 4 |
| #9 | University of Michigan--Ann Arbor | Ann Arbor | MI | $49,350 (out-of-state) | 2 |
| #10 | University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | PA | $55,584 | 1 |
| #11 | University of Washington | Seattle | WA | $36,898 (out-of-state) | 3 |
| #12 | Boston University | Boston | MA | $53,948 | 1 |
| #12 | Northwestern University | Evanston | IL | $54,567 | 8 |
