2021-2022 Graduate and Professional Tuition Rates

Tuition rates for the academic year 2021-22 

Choose your student classification to find tuition rates.

(Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer)

 Graduate Engineering Business School Medical School Law School Postdoc & Non-Matriculated Special Registration Statuses 

(Visiting Summer Session student? Use the Summer Session cost calculator.) 

Graduate School (Master's / Doctorate)

Please note: PhD students in the Biomedical Sciences and in the Graduate School of Business are assessed the standard graduate tuition rates.

For Coterm billing details, please see the Registrar’s Office website. 

Graduate School of Engineering

For Coterm billing details, please see the Registrar’s Office website.

Graduate School of Business (GSB)

MBA Program 

MSx: M.S. in Management for Experienced Leaders 

$129,700 Annual tuition

This is the annual rate, comprising 4 quarters: Summer 2021-Spring 2022

School of Medicine (SoM) 

MD Program

$21,249 per quarter

Stanford Law School 

$21,450 per quarter

Law/GSB Joint Program 

$22,712 per quarter

Multiple-Career Graduate Tuition  

For details, please see
Joint Degree Programs and Tuition Schedules

Tuition Agreement for Students with Multiple Programs (TAGM)

Postdoc & Non-Matriculated

Special Registration Statuses for Graduate & Professional Students

Matriculated graduate students are expected to register at the full-tuition rate applicable to their degree program unless they are in the final stages of their degree programs and therefore in a special reduced tuition category. Eligible categories are listed below. See Special Registration Statuses for Graduate and Professional Students for eligibility.

Special conditions apply to students admitted as coterminal graduate students; for more information, see Procedures for Coterminal Students (pdf).

Students in the Stanford Law School, Graduate School of Business, or in the M.D. program in the School of Medicine should consult appropriate school officers about tuition reduction eligibility.

Graduate Part-time Enrollment (3-7 units; Autumn, Winter, Spring)

Graduate students who need only 3-7 units to complete degree requirements or qualify for TGR status may be eligible for part-time enrollment. For more information on eligibility for part-time graduate enrollment and for information on how to apply, please see our special registration page.

Graduate Part-time Enrollment (OAE Accommodation) (3-7 units; Autumn, Winter, Spring)

This registration status is for graduate students who have been recommended for an approved reduced course load by the Office of Accessible Education (OAE). For more information on eligibility and how to apply, please see our special registration page.

Graduation Quarter

$150 per quarter

Graduate students who have completed all degree requirements and need a registration status in order to graduate may qualify for a graduation quarter.  For more information on eligibility for the graduation quarter and for information on how to apply, please see our special registration page.

Medical School Research Rate

$3,531 per quarter

For more information on eligibility and for information on how to apply, please see the School of Medicine Registrar's Office Reduced/Research Tuition Rate Eligibility web page.

TGR (Terminal Graduate Registration) / TGR Final Registration

$3,531 per quarter
TGR students who carry 0-3 units are assessed a TGR rate of $3,531.

Graduate students who have completed all degree requirements (including minimum residency units) but are working on finishing a thesis, project or dissertation may qualify for TGR. For more information on eligibility for TGR and for information on how to apply, please see our special registration page and our TGR page.