 | University of Virginia record February, 1912 |  |
EXPENSES.
All tuition fees, university fees, the contingent deposit, rents of
rooms in the university buildings, and charges for service in the
same, are payable upon entrance. Under special conditions the
president is authorized to allow credit; but these deferred payments
are in all cases to be properly secured.
Students permitted to register during a term are required to
pay the full fees for the term in which they register.
Under no circumstances will there be a return of fees except
upon certificate from the university physician that withdrawal from
the university is necessary on account of the student's illness,
which must not be due to dissolute conduct. Upon receipt of the
university physician's certificate, the president will return the fees,
pro rata.
A student's necessary expenses are as follows:
I. University charges, which are the same for all students,
except College and Graduate students from Virginia, as stated in
a following paragraph;
II. Department fees, which depend upon the course of study
pursued;
III. Cost of living, board, etc.
I. University Charges.—Under the first head are included (a)
university fee, $40 ($10 for Virginians in Academic Departments),
and (b) the contingent deposit, $10; as well as (c) the special Entrance
Examination fee of five dollars, (d) the delinquent registration
fee of three dollars, and (e) a fee for re-examination in any
subject where any of these is incurred.
(a) The University fee goes to the fund intended to defray the
general expenses of the university. Payment of this fee entitles
the student, without additional charge, to the use of the Library;
to the privileges of the Gymnasium, with baths, private lockers,
etc., and the advice and aid of the Instructor in Physical Culture;
and to free medical attendance by the university physician in cases
of illness. It also covers all regular examination and diploma fees.
(b) The contingent deposit is liable for any damage to the
university property for which the student is responsible, or for
violations of Library or other university rules. It is returned at the
end of the session, less any charges that may have been made
against it; it is therefore, not necessarily an expense, although
mentioned in this connection.
From this deposit there will be deducted the sum of $2.00 for
the support of the Chapel Services and General Religious Work of
the University, unless within one month after registration the
student shall request the bursar not to deduct this contribution. It
will be observed that this amount also (which is less than the average
contribution made by the students who have given toward the
Chapel Fund in past years) is not a necessary expense, as the support
of the religious work of the university is left entirely to the
option of the students and professors. This method of collection
is intended merely as a substitute for the canvass formerly made,
and it is the desire of the faculty that the students will thus unite
with them in sustaining the religious work of the university.
(c) The special entrance examination fee of five dollars is
required of all applicants for admission to the university by examination
who for good reason are unable to be present at the regular
entrance examinations on the dates as set forth on p. 82 of the catalogue.
All candidates who take entrance examinations on the
regular dates, are examined free of charge.
(d) The delinquent registration fee of three dollars is charged
where the student or candidate, through carelessness or other inadequate
reason, fails to present himself for registration, during the
first three days of the session; or where the student fails to register
with the dean of his department, between the hours of 9 a. m. and
2 p. m. on the first week-day after the expiration of the Christmas
Recess, unless his late return be due to illness or like providential
cause.
(e) The re-examination fee: A student of the College who
attains in any course a grade below 75 per cent, but not below 65
per cent, may, upon the written recommendation of the professor
in charge, be admitted by the faculty at their final meeting in June,
to re-examination upon that course, during the registration week
of the following September. The fee for each re-examination shall
be $5.00, payable to the bursar on or before July 15.
II. Department Fees.—Under the second head is comprised the
charge for instruction, including the Tuition Fees proper, and in
some cases, the cost of apparatus and materials consumed in laboratory
work.
In the College, the tuition fee is $95 a session. In the Department
of Graduate Studies, the tuition fee is $50 for one academic
school; for two, $30 each; for three or more $25 each.
The tuition fees in the college and the graduate department
are remitted to students from Virginia, as stated in a following
paragraph.
The Courses in Analytical Chemistry, being professional courses
are not included in the charges above stated. The tuition fee in
the School of Analytical Chemistry for one course is $40; for two
courses $80. Students enrolled in any course in Analytical Chemistry
may enter the course in Industrial Chemistry without additional
fees.
In addition to the tuition fees above stated, students enrolled
in the schools of natural science pay the following laboratory fees
for each course:
In Natural Philosophy (Physics), $5;
In Chemistry $10 (this does not include apparatus and materials
which are furnished at cost, and for which a special deposit
of $5 is required on entrance).In Zoology or Comparative Anatomy. Undergraduate $10.
Graduate $20.In Analytical Chemistry. One course $10 (not including apparatus
and materials for which a deposit of $10 must be made
for students taking one course, $15, for those enrolled in
two).
Students from Virginia.—In compliance with the statute (Virginia
Code 1887, Ch. 68, Sec. 1554), the university offers to white
male students from Virginia who are sixteen years or more of age,
instruction, without charge for tuition, in all the Schools of the
Academic Departments (excepting the laboratory courses in Chemistry
and Physics), subject to the conditions stated below. Such
students are required to pay the university fee for Virginia students
in the Academic Department of $10, and make the usual contingent
deposit. They are also required to pay the regular laboratory
charges for materials, etc., in the courses of study where such
charges occur. If they occupy rooms on the university grounds they
are of course subject to the usual charges for rent and service. The
saving to Virginia students varies from $105 to $130, according to the
number of schools elected.
To be entitled to free tuition as a Virginia student under the
above mentioned statute, it is necessary that the applicant's parents
be domiciled in the State if he be under twenty-one years of age; if
here. One is domiciled in the State who is living in it at the
time the application is made and has no present intention of removing
therefrom in the future, or who, though absent from the State,
has not lost his former domicile by acquiring one elsewhere. No
other person can honestly avail himself of this privilege.
White Male Teachers and Superintendents of the Public Schools
of Virginia will be admitted, during the last three months of the session,
to the Schools of the Academic Departments of the university
without payment of fees, upon presentation of certificates that they
have been teachers in the Public Schools of the State during the
year.
Immediately after the Spring Examinations any of the following
courses may be entered upon with profit by an applicant prepared
for them; Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, German, English, English
Literature and Rhetoric, History, Moral Philosophy, Mathematics,
Astronomy, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Industrial Chemistry,
Geology, and Descriptive Botany. Special courses for teachers will
be offered in English and Mathematics, and perhaps in several other
subjects during the approaching spring term, if the demand for them
is sufficient.
Applicants for admission as teachers are required to send in
their names to the president of the university not later than March
5. Lodgings can be had near the university. The only necessary
expense will be for board, lights, and washing, which will together
cost from $5 to $7 a week.
Privileged Students.—Ministers of the gospel may attend any of
the Academic Schools of the university without the payment of tuition
fees. The same privileges will be extended to any young man
who submits testimonials that he is an approved candidate for the
ministry, and unable to meet the expenses of education at the university
without aid.
In the Department of Law the tuition fee for each regular year's
course is $100, in addition to the university fee of $40. The privilege of free tuition to Virginians is confined, by legislative act, to students
of the Academic Department. For selected courses, the fee is estimated
according to the proportion which the work chosen bears to
the whole. For such irregular courses, the fee may be estimated approximately,
by multiplying the number of lecture periods in the
courses taken, by 30, and dividing by 100. The result will approximately
represent the fee in dollars.
In the Department of Medicine the tuition fee for each year's
regular course is $100 in addition to the university fee of $40.
In the Department of Engineering the charges for tuition are uniform
to all students, except that Virginians are relieved of tuition (p.
99) on courses offered in the college. In addition to the university fee
of $40, the fee for each class taken will be $25, with the addition of
the prescribed laboratory charges, which are $5 for each class in Applied
Mechanics, Engineering, and Physics; $15 for Chemistry. For
each class in Analytical Chemistry a special fee of $50 is charged
for tuition, plus $10 for apparatus and supplies. The fee for each
class in Drawing is $10.
III. Cost of living.—Under the third head fall the expenses of
living and the cost of books and stationery.
A student may, either alone or with a room-mate, rent a dormitory,
and take his meals in the University Commons, or in an
approved private boarding-house; or he may take both room and
board in such boarding-house, in which case he pays no room-rent
or servant hire to the university. Students desiring rooms in the
university dormitories should apply to the Bursar, enclosing in
every case the reservation fee of $5, which will be returned should
there be no room to let.
The rules governing the rental and occupancy of university
dormitories are as follows:
The Randall Building and East Range are assigned to the
University Commons, to be rented only to students taking board
there, at the following rates for the session of nine (9) months:
| Single rooms in Randall Bldg., with steam heat and electric lights |
$35 00 |
| Double rooms in Randall Bldg., with steam heat and electric lights |
40 00 |
| Old Gym Bldg., East Range, with steam heat and electric lights |
53 00 |
| All other rooms on East Range, with steam heat, electric lights, and janitor |
53 00 |
Other rooms in the university at rates as indicated below; the
occupant having the option of boarding at the University Commons,
and being entitled to a discount of 25 per cent from the rental, in
case he elects to take advantage of this privilege.
| Full Rates | Rates to those boarding at Commons |
|
| East Lawn, with steam heat, electric light, and janitor |
$74 75 | $56 07 |
| West Lawn, with steam heat, electric light, and janitor |
74 75 | 56 07 |
| West Lawn (Bachelor Row), steam heat, electric light, and janitor |
||
| West Range, with steam heat electric light, and janitor |
71 50 | 53 63 |
| Dawson's Row, with hot water heat, electric light, and janitor |
72 00 | 54 00 |
| Monroe Hill, with electric light, and janitor | 54 00 | 40 50 |
The rooms in the university dormitories are unfurnished. The
minimum cost of furniture for a single room may be placed at
$15.00.
Furnished rooms may be rented in private boarding houses
outside the university grounds at prices ranging from $5.00 to $20.00
a month.
Table board was furnished at the University Commons during
the session of 1911-12 at a minimum rate of $13.50 a month, a
system of special orders after the Yale plan enabling the student
to make such additions to this minimum as he liked or could afford.
Table board may be obtained at private houses outside the university
grounds at prices ranging from $15.00 to $20.00 a month.
Board and lodging can be secured at private houses outside the
university grounds at from $18.50 to $50.00 a month.
With strict economy the cost of board, lodging, heat, light, and
washing can be brought within $20.00 a month.
The cost of books and stationery varies much with the branches
studied. It is probably greatest in the Department of Law, where,
for the entire three year's course, it amounts to about $165. But
in this department as in that of Medicine, the books purchased
form the necessary nucleus of a professional library, and their cost
does not belong to transient expenses.
Approximate Summary of All Expenses.—The following tables
may be taken as fairly accurate approximations of all necessary
expenses for a session of nine months. As necessary expenses are
reckoned here, university and tuition fees, laboratory fees (average
for three years), lodging, board, laundry, and books, but not clothing,
travelling expenses or pocket money. For each department
three estimates are given,—a low, an average, and a liberal estimate.
The difference in the three depends on the difference of expenditure
for board, lodging, books, and laundry,—in other words,
on the scale of living of the individual student. By sharing a room
with another student, and by practicing the strictest economy, the
expenses may possibly be reduced below the low estimate.
| VIRGINIANS | NON VIRGINIANS | |||||
| Low | Average | Liberal | Low | Average | Liberal | |
| University Fee | $ 10 | $ 10 | $ 10 | $ 40 | $ 40 | $ 40 |
| Tuition | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95 | 95 | 95 |
| Laboratory Fees (Average 3 Years) |
5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Room, Heat, Light Furniture and Service |
50 | 90 | 105 | 50 | 90 | 105 |
| Board | 125 | 150 | 180 | 125 | 150 | 180 |
| Books | 15 | 25 | 30 | 15 | 25 | 30 |
| Laundry | 15 | 20 | 25 | 15 | 20 | 25 |
| Total for Session of 9 Months |
$220 | $300 | $355 | $345 | $425 | $480 |
| DEPARTMENT OF LAW | DEPT. OF MEDICINE | |||||
| Low | Average | Liberal | Low | Average | Liberal | |
| University Fee | $ 40 | $ 40 | $ 40 | $ 40 | $ 40 | $ 40 |
| Tuition (regular course) | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Room, Heat, Light, Furniture and Service |
50 | 90 | 105 | 50 | 90 | 105 |
| Board | 125 | 150 | 180 | 125 | 150 | 180 |
| Books | 45 | 55 | 65 | 25 | 30 | 35 |
| Laundry | 15 | 25 | 30 | 15 | 25 | 30 |
| Total for Session of 9 Months |
$375 | $460 | $520 | $355 | $435 | $490 |
| VIRGINIANS | NON VIRGINIANS | |||||
| Low | Average | Liberal | Low | Average | Liberal | |
| University Fee | $ 40 | $ 40 | $ 40 | $ 40 | $ 40 | $ 40 |
| Tuition and Laboratory Fees (Average 4 Years) |
50 | 50 | 50 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Room, Heat, Light, Furniture and Service |
50 | 90 | 105 | 50 | 90 | 105 |
| Board | 125 | 150 | 180 | 125 | 150 | 180 |
| Books and Materials | 15 | 20 | 25 | 15 | 20 | 25 |
| Laundry | 15 | 25 | 30 | 15 | 25 | 30 |
| Total for Session of 9 Months |
$295 | $375 | $430 | $345 | $425 | $480 |
Virginia Students' Loan Fund.—The Virginia Students' Loan
Fund was established by an Act of the General Assembly of Virginia,
approved March 14, 1908, and amounts each year to one per
centum (1%) of the annual appropriation made by the Legislature
for the support of the university. In accordance with the terms
of this act, loans will be made "to needy and deserving students
of talent and character, from Virginia, in the Academic Departments,"
in amounts not to exceed $100 in any one session to the
student, at an annual rate of interest of 4 per centum. The applicant
for such loan must have complied with all of the requirements
for admission to the College or to the Department of Graduate
Studies. For further information regarding such loans, apply to
the Bursar, University, Virginia.
The Harvard Loan Fund.—The Harvard Loan Fund was established
in February, 1909, by an alumnus of Harvard University,
who gave to the University of Virginia the sum of $5,000, as an
evidence of the friendship and kindly relation existing between
the two institutions. Loans from this fund will be made to needy
and deserving students pursuing or intending to pursue studies in
any of the departments of the university, in amounts not to exceed
$100 in any one session to the same student, at an annual rate of
interest of 4 per centum. The applicant must have complied with
all requirements for admission to the university. Further information
regarding such loans will be furnished on application to the
Bursar, University, Virginia.
Student Self-Help.—In addition to the Loan Funds above mentioned,
opportunity is also afforded as far as possible to those who
are desirous of helping themselves by their own industry, and it
may be safely stated that any student with sufficient resources to
carry him through the first half of the session, can be reasonably
sure of obtaining work enough to pay living expenses and university
fees for the remainder of the college year. While it is difficult for
any student to be assured of renumerative work before he reaches
the university, correspondence with reference to such employment
may be had by addressing the Secretary of the Committee on
Student Self-Help, Madison Hall.
The University Commons.—This building, conveniently situated
near the center of the university, provides an attractive Dining Hall,
with accommodations for more than 250 students at once. Board
is furnished at a rate not exceeding $15 per month, which means
that students in straitened circumstances need not be deprived of
daily association with their more fortunate fellows. The Commons
is the means of greatly reducing a student's living expenses at the
university.
| University of Virginia record February, 1912 | |