| Ranking | University | City | State | Tuition | Enrollment |
| #1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge | MA | $51,832 | 4 |
| #2 | University of Michigan--Ann Arbor | Ann Arbor | MI | $49,350 (out-of-state) | 2 |
| #3 | Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta | GA | $33,020 (out-of-state) | 1 |
| #4 | Stanford University | Stanford | CA | $51,354 | 7 |
| #5 | Northwestern University | Evanston | IL | $54,567 | 8 |
| #5 | University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign | Champaign | IL | $32,568 (out-of-state) | 3 |
| #7 | University of California--Berkeley | Berkeley | CA | $43,232 (out-of-state) | 3 |
| #8 | Cornell University | Ithaca | NY | $55,188 | 1 |
| #9 | California Institute of Technology | Pasadena | CA | $52,362 | 9 |
| #10 | University of California--Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara | CA | $42,486 (out-of-state) | 2 |
| #11 | Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh | PA | $55,465 | 6 |
| #11 | Pennsylvania State University--University Park | University Park | PA | $34,858 (out-of-state) | 4 |
