University of Virginia Library

EXPENSES.

A student's expenses consist of the following:

I. University Charges, which are the same for all students, except
College and Graduate students from Virginia, as stated in a following
paragraph;

II. School Fees, which depend upon the course of study pursued;

III. Cost of Living, board, etc.

I. Under the first head are included the University fee, $40 ($10 for
Virginians in Academic Departments), and the contingent deposit, $10; as
well as the special Entrance Examination fee of five dollars, the delinquent
registration fee of three dollars, and a fee for reöxamination in
any subject, where any of these is incurred.

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, including, if needed, care
and nursing in a well-equipped hospital maintained on the University
grounds, under the limitations stated in a preceding paragraph. It
also covers all regular examination and diploma fees.

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 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.

II. 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 Academic Departments the tuition fee for one School is $50;
for two, $30 each; for three or more, $25 each; except that in Analytical
Chemistry the charge for tuition and materials for one course is $50 and
for apparatus about $10, and for both courses $100, and for apparatus,
about $15. In the Chemistry courses for undergraduates, a laboratory fee
of $10 is charged, and apparatus and materials are furnished at cost. The
charges for a graduate course in Chemistry are: Tuition, $50; laboratory
fee, $10; apparatus and material are furnished at cost. The fee for Agricultural
Chemistry is $15, but this course is free to students in the Schools
of Chemistry, to Virginia students, and to unmatriculated farmers; and in
Zoölogy or Comparative Anatomy there is a laboratory fee, for materials,
of $10 in the undergraduate courses and $20 in the graduate courses. The
tuition fees in the Academic Departments are remitted to Virginia students,
to public school teachers of the State, and to ministers of the Gospel,
under conditions which are stated at length at the close of this section.

In the Department of Law the fee for each regular year's course, or
for any six classes, is $100; more than six classes (combining first and
second year's course), $115; five classes, $85; four classes, $75; three
classes, $60; two classes, $45; one class, $25. The fees for students who
return for a third year are considerably less.

In the Department of Medicine the fee for the first year is $110;
second year, $100; third year, $80; fourth year, $60.

In the Department of Engineering the fee for Applied Mathematics
is $25 for one course, $50 for two or more; for other subjects, the same as
in the Academic Departments—except for students who attend the regular
course of instruction for a degree in Engineering as laid down in the
programme, pp. 197-210. For these students the fee for tuition is $80 for
the first year, $70 for the second, $60 for the third, and $50 for the fourth.
A laboratory fee of $10 is charged in General Chemistry Course 1; an
additional charge of $60 is made for materials and instruction in Analytical
Chemistry to students of Mining Engineering. The payment of the Department
fee entitles the student not only to attend all the regular courses
for one year, but also to take over, without additional charge, such courses
of any previous year as he may have failed to complete. Virginians are
entitled to a reduction of $45 a year from the charges. (Compare pp.
91-95.)

In the Department of Agriculture the fees are the same as in the
Academic Departments.

III. 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 boardinghouse,
in which case he pays no room-rent or servant's hire to the University.
The price of University rooms ranges, according to their desirability,
from $30 to $50 for the session, exclusive of heat and light; the
large majority rent for $40; but there are a few single rooms at $30, and a
few whose price is above that of the majority. If two students occupy one
room, each pays half the rent; the University charge for service is $9 per
session for each student, whether there be one or two in a room.

The minimum cost of furnishing a room may be placed at $15, fuel
and lights combined cost about $25 for the session, and washing from
$1.50 upward per month. With strict economy the cost of board, fuel,
lights, service, and laundry can be brought within $15 a month as an average
for the session. Rooms and board may be had in private families or
boarding-houses at varying prices.

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 two years' course, it amounts to about $90. 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.

All tuition fees, University fees, the contingent deposits, 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 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),
subject to the conditions stated below. Such students are required
to pay the University fee (by the recent action of the legislature,
three-fourths of the University fee is also remitted to such students)
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
$90 to $130, according to the number of Schools elected.

The Faculty are required by the law mentioned above to satisfy
themselves in the case of each applicant, either by actual examination

or by a diploma or certificate from some college or preparatory school,
that he has made such proficiency in each branch of study which he
proposes to pursue as will enable him to avail himself of the advantages
offered by the University. Examinations for admission, in
accordance with the terms of this law, are, therefore, required as
described in a preceding section.

To be entitled to free tuition as a Virginia student it is necessary that
the applicant's parents be bona fide residents of the State if he be under
twenty-one years of age; if he has attained his majority, it is necessary
that he be a bona fide resident. A resident of the State is one who is
living in it at the time the application is made and has no present intention
of removing therefrom in the future. No other person can honestly avail
himself of this privilege.

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.

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, 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 5th.
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.

Pecuniary Aid to Students.—Effort is now being made to provide
a fund, the income of which will be applied in rendering financial
aid to deserving students. In the meantime, opportunity is 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, may be reasonably sure of obtaining work enough to pay
his living expenses and university fees for the remainder of the
college year. While it is difficult for any student to be assured of
remunerative 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 will be ready for occupancy
before the opening of the session of 1908-1909. Conveniently
situated near the center of the University, it provides an attractive
Dining Hall, with accommodations for more than 200 students at
once, and will furnish board at such reasonable rates that students
in straitened circumstances need not thereby be deprived of daily
association with their more fortunate fellows. The Dining Hall will
be the means of greatly reducing a student's living expenses.