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Considering a degree in Bioengineering?
These rankings show the most affordable colleges for Bioengineering majors who live in Pennsylvania.
Rankings are calculated by estimating the net price at every college offering Bioengineering degrees for a "typical" middle class family living in the state of Pennsylvania.
Note: Net price is the actual cost of college paid after factoring in financial aid.The net prices displayed in these rankings are College Raptor's estimates.
“Typical” middle class family values used in the Net Price estimates on this page are:
| Rank | Institution | Typical Net Price | Sticker Price | % Savings | Undergraduates | Est. Median SAT | Acceptance Rate | Save |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rice University | 4300 | 85500 | 0.9496 | 4,789 | 1535 | 0.08 | |
| 1 | University of Pennsylvania | 4300 | 92700 | 0.9537 | 10,013 | 1528 | 0.054 | |
| 3 | California Institute of Technology | 4400 | 90300 | 0.9511 | 987 | 1557 | 0.0257 | |
| 4 | Johns Hopkins University | 4500 | 88600 | 0.9491 | 6,356 | 1543 | 0.0644 | |
| 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 4700 | 86800 | 0.9456 | 4,576 | 1535 | 0.0485 | |
| 6 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 5100 | 39100 | 0.8705 | 34,454 | 1435 | 0.1564 | |
| 7 | Yale University | 5500 | 92300 | 0.9403 | 6,814 | 1507 | 0.0387 | |
| 8 | Harvard University | 5900 | 90700 | 0.9347 | 7,038 | 1535 | 0.0365 | |
| 9 | Boston University | 6000 | 88800 | 0.9329 | 18,805 | 1475 | 0.1111 | |
| 10 | Columbia University in the City of New York | 6600 | 94100 | 0.9301 | 9,157 | 1535 | 0.0386 | |
| 11 | Vanderbilt University | 7800 | 95000 | 0.9178 | 7,221 | 1527 | 0.0586 | |
| 12 | Brown University | 8900 | 93900 | 0.905 | 7,910 | 1535 | 0.0539 | |
| 13 | Washington University in St Louis | 9200 | 96200 | 0.904 | 8,220 | 1513 | 0.1206 | |
| 14 | Duke University | 9900 | 93500 | 0.8944 | 6,523 | 1539 | 0.0571 | |
| 15 | University of California-Davis | 10100 | 37800 | 0.732 | 32,273 | 1290 | 0.4183 | |
| 16 | Cornell University | 10300 | 92000 | 0.8877 | 16,128 | 1521 | 0.0841 | |
| 17 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 11400 | 27200 | 0.5816 | 40,754 | 1391 | 0.3915 | |
| 18 | University of California-San Diego | 12200 | 34000 | 0.6407 | 34,955 | 1375 | 0.2677 | |
| 19 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 12400 | 27200 | 0.5443 | 39,083 | 1412 | 0.4517 | |
| 20 | The University of Texas at San Antonio | 13000 | 24400 | 0.4677 | 31,127 | 1115 | 0.8679 | |
| 21 | The University of Texas at Austin | 13100 | 30700 | 0.573 | 43,165 | 1335 | 0.2664 | |
| 21 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 13100 | 38500 | 0.6596 | 17,901 | 1470 | 0.1681 | |
| 23 | Florida Gulf Coast University | 13600 | 22500 | 0.3961 | 14,243 | 1125 | 0.7675 | |
| 23 | University of Delaware | 13600 | 32500 | 0.5829 | 19,119 | 1303 | 0.6356 | |
| 25 | University of South Florida | 13800 | 17100 | 0.1928 | 38,525 | 1239 | 0.4319 | |
| 26 | Louisiana Tech University | 13900 | 24900 | 0.4411 | 11,071 | 1164 | 0.9073 | |
| 27 | Kansas State University | 14100 | 26100 | 0.4588 | 15,650 | 1164 | 0.8199 | |
| 28 | West Virginia University | 14300 | 23300 | 0.3862 | 18,614 | 1125 | 0.778 | |
| 29 | University of California-Merced | 14400 | 40300 | 0.6422 | 8,372 | 1070 | 0.9152 | |
| 30 | Northern Illinois University | 14500 | 29300 | 0.5068 | 11,349 | 1070 | 0.6979 | |
| 31 | Union College | 14700 | 91000 | 0.8385 | 2,065 | 1393 | 0.4392 | |
| 32 | Stanford University | 14800 | 71300 | 0.792 | 7,904 | 1535 | 0.0361 | |
| 33 | Ohio State University-Main Campus | 15000 | 25700 | 0.4158 | 46,815 | 1339 | 0.6057 | |
| 33 | University of California-Berkeley | 15000 | 43500 | 0.655 | 33,469 | 1407 | 0.1104 | |
| 33 | University of North Texas | 15000 | 25400 | 0.4101 | 34,458 | 1114 | 0.7223 | |
| 36 | Alabama State University | 15100 | 28000 | 0.461 | 3,322 | 945 | 0.9564 | |
| 36 | Case Western Reserve University | 15100 | 80400 | 0.8117 | 6,528 | 1485 | 0.3778 | |
| 38 | Colorado State University-Fort Collins | 15200 | 35700 | 0.5744 | 26,500 | 1183 | 0.8857 | |
| 38 | University of California-Irvine | 15200 | 35300 | 0.5701 | 30,204 | 1333 | 0.2878 | |
| 40 | University of South Carolina-Columbia | 15500 | 24800 | 0.3744 | 30,187 | 1292 | 0.6015 | |
| 41 | University of California-Riverside | 15600 | 36500 | 0.5722 | 22,599 | 1199 | 0.7685 | |
| 42 | Florida State University | 15700 | 23100 | 0.3203 | 32,711 | 1360 | 0.2422 | |
| 42 | Southern Illinois University-Carbondale | 15700 | 28000 | 0.439 | 8,553 | 1054 | 0.8688 | |
| 44 | Grand Valley State University | 16200 | 25300 | 0.3601 | 19,002 | 1233 | 0.8302 | |
| 45 | University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire | 16300 | 22300 | 0.2687 | 8,765 | 1209 | 0.8799 | |
| 46 | Northwestern University | 16700 | 89500 | 0.8138 | 8,846 | 1513 | 0.0722 | |
| 46 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 16700 | 64800 | 0.7426 | 21,075 | 1420 | 0.1534 | |
| 46 | University of Southern California | 16700 | 76000 | 0.7802 | 21,023 | 1485 | 0.1002 | |
| 49 | Virginia Commonwealth University | 17600 | 33600 | 0.4758 | 21,210 | 1171 | 0.9232 | |
| 50 | University of Rochester | 17700 | 93100 | 0.8101 | 6,580 | 1469 | 0.4008 | |
| 51 | Tufts University | 17800 | 92400 | 0.8077 | 7,126 | 1507 | 0.1153 | |
| 52 | The College of New Jersey | 18100 | 38200 | 0.5257 | 7,435 | 1248 | 0.6235 | |
| 52 | University of Louisville | 18100 | 29100 | 0.3784 | 17,086 | 1148 | 0.7941 | |
| 54 | University of Vermont | 18300 | 37800 | 0.5164 | 12,276 | 1379 | 0.653 | |
| 55 | The University of Texas at Dallas | 18400 | 29800 | 0.3832 | 21,858 | 1283 | 0.6513 | |
| 56 | University of Mississippi | 18700 | 45500 | 0.5895 | 21,585 | 1182 | 0.9658 | |
| 57 | Jackson State University | 19300 | 28000 | 0.3102 | 4,650 | 950 | 0.4823 | |
| 58 | University of Missouri-Columbia | 19400 | 36900 | 0.4748 | 24,457 | 1256 | 0.7847 | |
| 59 | SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry | 19600 | 29300 | 0.3305 | 1,984 | 1369 | 0.6328 | |
| 60 | The University of Texas at Arlington | 19700 | 27200 | 0.276 | 31,112 | 1130 | 0.8129 | |
| 61 | Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania | 19800 | 26500 | 0.2542 | 9,967 | 1080 | 0.9475 | |
| 62 | Texas A&M University-College Station | 20000 | 31000 | 0.3554 | 60,710 | 1278 | 0.5732 | |
| 63 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | 20100 | 38800 | 0.4817 | 36,588 | 1367 | 0.6535 | |
| 63 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 20100 | 43700 | 0.5405 | 31,035 | 1366 | 0.5499 | |
| 65 | Lehigh University | 20400 | 84700 | 0.7592 | 5,911 | 1436 | 0.2593 | |
| 66 | Marshall University | 20600 | 36300 | 0.4328 | 9,165 | 1065 | 0.9572 | |
| 67 | Pennsylvania State University-World Campus | 20700 | 33400 | 0.3819 | 8,012 | 1139 | 1 | |
| 68 | Milwaukee School of Engineering | 20800 | 69400 | 0.7007 | 2,705 | 1292 | 0.6239 | |
| 69 | University of Central Oklahoma | 21000 | 22700 | 0.0749 | 10,454 | 1095 | 0.8176 | |
| 70 | University of Miami | 21100 | 70800 | 0.7023 | 13,250 | 1406 | 0.189 | |
| 71 | Gannon University | 22400 | 45400 | 0.5069 | 2,768 | 1174 | 0.7416 | |
| 72 | University of Memphis | 22800 | 30000 | 0.2404 | 15,770 | 1075 | 0.7203 | |
| 73 | Indiana Institute of Technology | 23500 | 48800 | 0.5186 | 1,642 | 1055 | 0.5713 | |
| 73 | Syracuse University | 23500 | 83100 | 0.7172 | 15,958 | 1363 | 0.4611 | |
| 75 | Oral Roberts University | 24000 | 55600 | 0.5688 | 5,017 | 1139 | 0.989 | |
| 76 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 24100 | 71600 | 0.6636 | 3,135 | 1299 | 0.5493 | |
| 76 | University at Buffalo | 24100 | 34000 | 0.2912 | 20,360 | 1303 | 0.7418 | |
| 76 | University of Massachusetts-Amherst | 24100 | 37100 | 0.3508 | 23,920 | 1390 | 0.5973 | |
| 79 | Tulane University of Louisiana | 24200 | 83600 | 0.7108 | 7,283 | 1451 | 0.1398 | |
| 80 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | 24700 | 32200 | 0.2328 | 10,200 | 1346 | 0.6507 | |
| 81 | Arizona State University Campus Immersion | 25000 | 36600 | 0.3173 | 65,450 | 1203 | 0.8989 | |
| 81 | Montana State University | 25000 | 31400 | 0.2038 | 15,053 | 1184 | 0.8214 | |
| 81 | University of Akron Main Campus | 25000 | 25000 | 0 | 11,160 | 1069 | 0.5967 | |
| 84 | Binghamton University | 25700 | 32700 | 0.2159 | 14,669 | 1417 | 0.3861 | |
| 84 | Walla Walla University | 25700 | 51700 | 0.5038 | 1,238 | 1159 | 0.604 | |
| 86 | Marquette University | 26000 | 65700 | 0.6039 | 8,045 | 1309 | 0.8134 | |
| 87 | Indiana University-Indianapolis | 26200 | 28400 | 0.0776 | 14,504 | 1145 | 0.7637 | |
| 88 | University of Mount Union | 26400 | 50900 | 0.4805 | 1,927 | 1105 | 0.8013 | |
| 88 | University of South Dakota | 26400 | 29600 | 0.1082 | 7,619 | 1120 | 0.9878 | |
| 90 | Trine University | 26600 | 56100 | 0.5263 | 4,157 | 1209 | 0.8469 | |
| 90 | University of Arizona | 26600 | 35200 | 0.2441 | 45,025 | 1212 | 0.8614 | |
| 92 | University of Arkansas | 26800 | 30800 | 0.1302 | 28,859 | 1179 | 0.7431 | |
| 93 | Rowan University | 27400 | 40500 | 0.3234 | 16,199 | 1214 | 0.783 | |
| 93 | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology | 27400 | 31600 | 0.1331 | 2,170 | 1264 | 0.8525 | |
| 95 | University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus | 27800 | 31400 | 0.1147 | 14,019 | 1159 | 0.7781 | |
| 96 | University of Minnesota Twin Cities | 27900 | 36700 | 0.2402 | 41,303 | 1338 | 0.7975 | |
| 97 | Bucknell University | 28000 | 87500 | 0.6804 | 3,920 | 1284 | 0.2893 | |
| 98 | California State University-Long Beach | 28100 | 38400 | 0.2686 | 35,843 | 1135 | 0.4628 | |
| 99 | Dartmouth College | 28300 | 91100 | 0.689 | 4,570 | 1528 | 0.054 | |
| 100 | Regis College | 28500 | 70400 | 0.595 | 1,055 | 965 | 0.9009 | |
| 100 | University of Hartford | 28500 | 70100 | 0.5926 | 4,223 | 1224 | 0.9579 | |
| 102 | George Fox University | 28800 | 67100 | 0.5712 | 3,401 | 1193 | 0.9351 | |
| 102 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 28800 | 78100 | 0.6313 | 14,267 | 1363 | 0.6693 | |
| 104 | Messiah University | 29300 | 50400 | 0.4176 | 2,618 | 1241 | 0.7897 | |
| 105 | University of Toledo | 29400 | 32600 | 0.0983 | 11,013 | 1159 | 0.9202 | |
| 106 | Temple University | 29500 | 36300 | 0.1875 | 21,428 | 1245 | 0.8045 | |
| 107 | University of Connecticut | 29600 | 33200 | 0.1086 | 19,388 | 1324 | 0.5395 | |
| 107 | Wright State University-Main Campus | 29600 | 36500 | 0.1892 | 7,505 | 1059 | 0.9633 | |
| 109 | Michigan Technological University | 29700 | 34700 | 0.1442 | 6,022 | 1256 | 0.8353 | |
| 110 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 29900 | 31100 | 0.0385 | 20,592 | 1435 | 0.1407 | |
| 111 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | 30000 | 30000 | 0 | 18,428 | 1090 | 0.9529 | |
| 112 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 30200 | 52900 | 0.4293 | 37,140 | 1442 | 0.4237 | |
| 113 | San Jose State University | 30500 | 41000 | 0.2559 | 28,008 | 0 | 0.8461 | |
| 114 | Alfred University | 30600 | 67100 | 0.5442 | 1,474 | 1214 | 0.7384 | |
| 115 | California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo | 31100 | 42400 | 0.2666 | 21,947 | 1335 | 0.3122 | |
| 115 | University of Houston | 31100 | 35200 | 0.1166 | 39,257 | 1249 | 0.7392 | |
| 117 | University of Rhode Island | 31500 | 46700 | 0.3255 | 14,376 | 1148 | 0.7216 | |
| 118 | North Carolina A & T State University | 31800 | 36400 | 0.1262 | 12,216 | 1020 | 0.4617 | |
| 119 | Rockhurst University | 32200 | 62500 | 0.4845 | 2,304 | 1124 | 0.7089 | |
| 120 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 32300 | 34700 | 0.0691 | 30,564 | 1298 | 0.416 | |
| 121 | Widener University | 32500 | 74900 | 0.5652 | 2,811 | 1155 | 0.8402 | |
| 122 | Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University | 32600 | 38500 | 0.1533 | 7,890 | 1105 | 0.2056 | |
| 122 | Florida International University | 32600 | 36800 | 0.1141 | 44,904 | 1175 | 0.5466 | |
| 124 | California Lutheran University | 32700 | 65800 | 0.5027 | 2,297 | 1258 | 0.7567 | |
| 125 | Harding University | 32800 | 47000 | 0.3023 | 3,523 | 1193 | 0.3942 | |
| 125 | North Carolina State University | 32800 | 54800 | 0.4017 | 28,422 | 1335 | 0.4167 | |
| 127 | University of Massachusetts-Lowell | 33100 | 54600 | 0.3936 | 12,122 | 1283 | 0.8296 | |
| 128 | George Washington University | 33700 | 81800 | 0.5882 | 11,677 | 1421 | 0.4709 | |
| 129 | LeTourneau University | 34000 | 54600 | 0.3772 | 3,184 | 1178 | 0.3801 | |
| 130 | Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology | 34100 | 74600 | 0.5432 | 2,315 | 1382 | 0.7686 | |
| 131 | Valparaiso University | 34300 | 63000 | 0.4553 | 2,123 | 1247 | 0.8934 | |
| 132 | University of Nevada-Reno | 35000 | 35000 | 0 | 18,895 | 1134 | 0.7371 | |
| 133 | California Baptist University | 35100 | 65200 | 0.4616 | 8,417 | 1069 | 0.8535 | |
| 134 | West Chester University of Pennsylvania | 35200 | 42500 | 0.1717 | 14,449 | 1195 | 0.7816 | |
| 135 | Stevenson University | 35300 | 59900 | 0.4105 | 3,106 | 1100 | 0.7891 | |
| 136 | University of Maine | 36100 | 45100 | 0.1996 | 591 | 1199 | 0.9684 | |
| 137 | Mississippi State University | 36300 | 50500 | 0.2815 | 18,567 | 1214 | 0.7764 | |
| 138 | University of the Pacific | 36400 | 72100 | 0.4953 | 3,249 | 1298 | 0.7132 | |
| 139 | Lawrence Technological University | 36900 | 67800 | 0.4556 | 2,579 | 1155 | 0.7403 | |
| 140 | Wichita State University | 37400 | 39600 | 0.0556 | 14,280 | 1094 | 0.7211 | |
| 141 | Loyola University Chicago | 37500 | 73500 | 0.4896 | 12,538 | 1303 | 0.816 | |
| 142 | Duquesne University | 37800 | 70500 | 0.4639 | 5,371 | 1269 | 0.8356 | |
| 143 | Washington State University | 38500 | 53900 | 0.2859 | 14,346 | 1139 | 0.8797 | |
| 144 | Hofstra University | 38900 | 74600 | 0.4784 | 6,581 | 1323 | 0.6808 | |
| 145 | University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth | 39100 | 48900 | 0.2004 | 5,731 | 1174 | 0.9064 | |
| 146 | Wayne State University | 39400 | 45500 | 0.134 | 16,173 | 1174 | 0.7786 | |
| 147 | Stony Brook University | 39800 | 53000 | 0.2491 | 18,263 | 1395 | 0.4904 | |
| 148 | University of New Hampshire-Main Campus | 40200 | 40200 | 0 | 11,365 | 1216 | 0.8816 | |
| 149 | University of California-Los Angeles | 40400 | 68600 | 0.4116 | 33,471 | 1399 | 0.0897 | |
| 150 | Western New England University | 40500 | 67000 | 0.3957 | 2,616 | 1199 | 0.8348 | |
| 151 | Drexel University | 40800 | 82600 | 0.5059 | 13,169 | 1339 | 0.7944 | |
| 152 | Endicott College | 40900 | 63200 | 0.3528 | 3,176 | 1215 | 0.7229 | |
| 153 | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | 41100 | 55100 | 0.2542 | 42,604 | 1336 | 0.6056 | |
| 154 | CUNY City College | 41500 | 41500 | 0 | 12,982 | 1169 | 0.5997 | |
| 154 | Fairfield University | 41500 | 77900 | 0.467 | 5,391 | 1350 | 0.3329 | |
| 156 | University of Alabama at Birmingham | 42200 | 42200 | 0 | 12,382 | 1242 | 0.8842 | |
| 157 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 42500 | 54900 | 0.2261 | 20,418 | 1375 | 0.5808 | |
| 158 | Purdue University-Main Campus | 43000 | 46200 | 0.0693 | 44,170 | 1327 | 0.4979 | |
| 159 | Florida Institute of Technology | 43400 | 68600 | 0.3675 | 3,677 | 1224 | 0.577 | |
| 160 | Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College | 43600 | 50300 | 0.1332 | 34,242 | 1273 | 0.7333 | |
| 160 | University of Florida | 43600 | 45600 | 0.0438 | 36,567 | 1399 | 0.242 | |
| 162 | University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus | 43800 | 57100 | 0.2315 | 23,351 | 1239 | 0.766 | |
| 163 | Oregon State University | 44900 | 61900 | 0.2748 | 31,253 | 1272 | 0.773 | |
| 164 | Saint Louis University | 46100 | 74500 | 0.3813 | 10,436 | 1260 | 0.7504 | |
| 165 | University of Illinois Chicago | 46500 | 48000 | 0.0312 | 22,495 | 1252 | 0.7735 | |
| 166 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 47300 | 85700 | 0.4479 | 5,743 | 1438 | 0.6343 | |
| 167 | Wentworth Institute of Technology | 47800 | 56200 | 0.1494 | 3,965 | 1229 | 0.9121 | |
| 168 | Stevens Institute of Technology | 49000 | 85800 | 0.4288 | 4,236 | 1445 | 0.4758 | |
| 169 | George Mason University | 49200 | 49200 | 0 | 28,331 | 1268 | 0.8748 | |
| 170 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 50300 | 81000 | 0.3788 | 5,558 | 1292 | 0.6016 | |
| 171 | University of Iowa | 51000 | 53200 | 0.0415 | 22,738 | 1208 | 0.8362 | |
| 171 | University of Kentucky | 51000 | 56000 | 0.0893 | 25,535 | 1193 | 0.9294 | |
| 173 | University of Colorado Boulder | 51300 | 56300 | 0.0887 | 32,100 | 1290 | 0.8115 | |
| 174 | University of Utah | 51500 | 53700 | 0.0411 | 28,064 | 1237 | 0.8598 | |
| 175 | University of Cincinnati-Main Campus | 51700 | 51700 | 0 | 33,572 | 1264 | 0.8529 | |
| 176 | Miami University-Oxford | 56100 | 56100 | 0 | 16,816 | 1299 | 0.754 | |
| 177 | University of California-Santa Cruz | 56300 | 66500 | 0.1534 | 17,940 | 1281 | 0.6557 | |
| 178 | Santa Clara University | 56500 | 84800 | 0.3339 | 6,577 | 1427 | 0.48 | |
| 179 | Hawaii Pacific University | 58700 | 60900 | 0.0362 | 3,533 | 1120 | 0.8587 | |
| 180 | Clemson University | 61400 | 63700 | 0.0346 | 23,401 | 1343 | 0.3834 | |
| 181 | The Catholic University of America | 82500 | 82500 | 0 | 3,177 | 1204 | 0.8278 |
School data is from 2022–2023 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.