University of Virginia Library

Expenses.

(IN THE ACADEMICAL, ENGINEERING AND AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENTS.)

In the Academical Department the necessary expenses of a student for
the session of nine months are estimated as below, for the lowest rate and
for a more liberal scale of living, assuming in each case that the student
attends three Schools.

                         

Tuition	$75	$75
Matriculation[1]	40	40
Contingent deposit	10	10
Dormitory rent	15	30
Servant's attendance	9	9
Furniture for dormitory	9	19
Fuel and lights	12	24
Washing	14	14
Board	99	162
Total	283	383
Payable on entrance	203	259
Reduced charges to Virginians	208	308
Payable on entrance	128	183

The contingent deposit of $10 is assessed for any damage to property, violation
of Library rules, and so on, with which the student himself may be
chargeable; the balance remaining to his credit is returned to him on his
leaving the University.

To the above total must be added the cost of books, stationery and laboratory
materials.

In the Engineering Department the tuition fee is usually $100 (instead
of $75), with a reduction of $50 only to Virginians, other charges remaining
the same.

In the Agricultural Department the tuition fee is usually $100, which
is remitted to Virginians, other charges remaining the same.

In all cases a moderate allowance of pocket-money for contingent expenses
must be made. For this purpose $5 a month should usually suffice; more
than $10 a month is ordinarily excessive.

Students from Virginia.—In compliance with the statute (Virginia
Code, 1887, ch. 68, § 1554), the University offers to white male students
from Virginia over the age of sixteen years instruction without charge for
tuition in all the Academical Schools, except the Laboratory courses in
Chemistry and Practical Physics.

The total University fees of an Academical student from Virginia are only
$50; his necessary expenses amount to but $208, exclusive of laboratory
materials, books and stationery; of this about $128 must be paid on entrance.

The Faculty are required by law to be satisfied by actual examination of
the applicant, 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 are required as follows:

1. For admission to the School of Latin, on forms, syntax, and Books i., ii. of Cæsar's
Commentaries, with Cicero's Orations against Catiline.

2. For admission to the School of Greek, on forms, syntax, and Books i., ii. of Xenophon's
Anabasis.

3. For admission to the School of Mathematics or Natural Philosophy, on Arithmetic,
Plane Geometry, and Algebra through quadratics.

For admission to the other Schools, a good knowledge of English and
Arithmetic is alone required.

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 Academical Department of the University without payment
of fees, upon presentation of certificates that they have been teachers in the
Public Schools. Applicants for admission are requested to send in their
names to the Chairman of the Faculty not later than March 5th. Lodgings
can be had near the University. The only necessary expenses will be for
board, lights, and washing, which will together cost from $4 to $6 a week.