University of Virginia Library

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. School 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, 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.

(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. 79 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. School 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 Academic Department 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. In
the Physics Courses a laboratory fee of $5 is charged. The fee for
agricultural Chemistry is $15, but this course is free to the 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.

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 $90
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 he
has attained his majority, it is necessary that he himself be domiciled
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, 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.

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF PROBABLE NECESSARY EXPENSES PER SESSION
IN THE COLLEGE AND THE DEPARTMENTS OF GRADUATE STUDIES.

                     

	FOR VIRGINIANS			FOR NON-VIRGINIANS
	Low	Aver.	Liber'l	Low	Aver.	Liber'l
University fee	$10	$10	$ 10	$ 40	$ 40	$ 40
Tuition (three courses)	0	0	0	75	75	75
Room, Heat, Light, and Janitor Service	17.50	62.50	105	17.50	62.50	105
	(Two in room, no janitor service)			(Two in room, no janitor service)
Board	121.50	150.75	180	121.50	150.75	180
Books	10	17	26	10	17	26
Laundry	13.50	18	20	13.50	18	20
Furniture	10	20	Furnished	10	20	Furnished
	$182.50	$278.25	$341	$287.50	$383.25	$446

For students registered in certain courses, laboratory fees should be
added to estimate above made as follows:

           

Analytical Chemistry	$10	(about)
Chemistry	10
Physics	5
Zoölogy or Comparative Anatomy:
Undergraduate	10
Graduate	20

A breakage deposit of $5 is also required in each of the chemistry
courses for undergraduates. The courses in Analytical Chemistry are
not included in those courses in which tuition is free to Virginia Students.

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.

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF PROBABLE NECESSARY EXPENSES IN THE
DEPARTMENT OF LAW.

                   

	LOW	AVERAGE	LIBERAL
University Fee	$ 40 00	$ 40 00	$ 40 00
Tuition (Regular Course)	100 00	100 00	100 00
Room, Heat, Light, and Janitor service	17 50	62 50	105 00
	(Two in room without janitor service)
Board	121 50	150 75	180 00
Books	45 00	55 00	65 00
Laundry	13 50	18 00	20 00
Furniture	10 00	20 00	Furnished
	$347 50	$446 25	$510 00

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

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF PROBABLE NECESSARY EXPENSES IN THE DEPARTMENT
OF MEDICINE.

                   

	LOW	AVERAGE	LIBERAL
University Fee	$ 40 00	$ 40 00	$ 40 00
Tuition (average for four years)	88 00	88 00	88 00
Room, Heat, Light, and Janitor service	17 50	62 50	105 00
	(Two in room without janitor service)
Board	121 50	150 75	180 00
Books	15 00	20 00	25 00
Laundry	13 50	18 00	20 00
Furniture, etc	10 00	20 00	Furnished
	$305 50	$399 25	$458 00

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. 234-238. For these students the fee for tuition is
$90 for the first year, $80 for the second, $70 for the third, and $60 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.

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF PROBABLE NECESSARY EXPENSES IN THE DEPARTMENT
OF ENGINEERING.

                       

	FOR VIRGINIANS			FOR NON-VIRGINIANS
	Low	Aver.	Liber'l	Low	Aver.	Liber'l
University Fee	$ 40	$ 40	$ 40	$ 40	$ 40	$ 40
Tuition (Aver. for four years)	30	30	30	75	75	75
Room, Heat, Light and Janitor Service	17.50	62.50	105	17.50	62.50	105
	(Two in room, no janitor service)			(Two in room, no janitor service)
Board	121.50	150.75	180	121.50	150.75	180
Books & Drawing Mat'r'l	18	20	25	18	20	25
Laundry	13.50	18	20	13.50	18	20
Furniture	10	20	Furnished	10	20	Furnished
	(Rented)			(Rented)
	$250.50	$341.25	$400	$295.50	$386.25	$445

For students registered in certain courses, laboratory fees should be
added to estimate above made as follows:

     

Analytical Chemistry	$10	(about)
Chemistry	10
Physics	5

A breakage deposit of $5 is also required in each of the chemistry
courses for undergraduates. Tuition in courses in Analytical Chemistry
is not free to Virginia Students.

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

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 boardinghouse,
in which case he pays no room-rent or servant's hire to the
university.

The rules governing the rental and occupancy of university dormitories
are as follows:

I. 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 and electric lights and janitor	53 00

II. 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	69 00	52 50
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 1910-11 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.

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 same 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.