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. 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. 85 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.

TABULATED STATEMENTS OF UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENTAL FEES.

A. The College:

         

	To Students from Virginia	To Students from other States
University Fee	$10	$40
Tuition	0	95
Contingent Deposit	10	10
	$20	$145

Laboratory Fees.—In addition to the charges above stated, students
taking courses in natural sciences pay laboratory fees as follows:

           

	Laboratory	Fee for Apparatus, etc.
Botany	$ 5	$5
Chemistry	10
Geology, Term Course	3
Physics	5
Zoölogy	5

Students Taking Less than Fifteen Session-Hours.—Students,
from other states than Virginia, who by special permission of the
faculty, take courses aggregating less than fifteen session-hours in
the College in any one session, must pay for tuition in any one academic
school $50, in two schools $60, in three schools $75, in four
schools $95. (See also p. 104.)

B. The Department of Graduate Studies:

         

	To Students from Virginia		To Students from other States
University Fee	$10		$40
Tuition	0	Average	75[2]
Contingent Deposit	10		10
	$20		$125

Students from Virginia.—As is seen from the statements above
the university, in compliance with the statute (Virginia Code 1887,
Ch. 68, Sec. 1554), 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 courses in Analytical Chemistry and the laboratory courses in
Botany, Chemistry, Physics, and Zoölogy), 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 course 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
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, 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.

Ministerial 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.

C. Courses in Analytical Chemistry:

The courses in Analytical Chemistry, being professional courses,
are not included under the regular tuition fees in the academic departments
or among the courses in which free tuition is given to
Virginians and other privileged students in the College and the
Department of Graduate Studies. The fees for each course in Analytical
Chemistry are:

       

Tuition	$40
Laboratory	10
Apparatus	10	(for students taking two courses $15 for both).
	$60

D. Department of Law:

       

University Fee	$ 40
Tuition	100
Contingent Fee	10
	$150

Students taking an irregular course pay for tuition according
to the proportion which the work taken bears to the regular course.
For such course the tuition fee may be estimated approximately in
dollars as 3-10 of the total number of lecture periods.

E. Department of Medicine:

       

University Fee	$ 40
Tuition	100
Contingent Deposit	10
	$150

Breakage Deposit in Organic and Physiological Chemistry.—
Students taking courses in Organic and Physiological Chemistry are
required to deposit in addition to the charges above stated $10 to
cover cost of breakage in the laboratory.

F. Department of Engineering:

In the Department of Engineering the charges for tuition are uniform
to all students, except that Virginians are relieved of tuition (p.
102) 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 and supplies plus $10 for apparatus. The fee for each
class in Drawing is $10.

The statement made above may be averaged for the four years
of the engineering courses as follows:

         

	To Students from Virginia	To Students from other States
University Fee	$40	$ 40
Tuition and Lab. Fee	50	100
Contingent Deposit	10	10
	$100	$150

III. Cost of Living.—Under the third head fall the expenses of
living and the cost of books and stationery.

Dormitories.

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 rates given below are for the session of nine months.

The rooms in the dormitories are unfurnished. The minimum
cost of furniture for a single room may be placed at $15 for the
session and can be secured from the local furniture dealers.

All rooms are provided with either steam or hot water heat,
electric light, and janitor service except where otherwise specified.

Randall Building.

This building contains 32 single and 10 double rooms which
are assigned only to students taking board at the University Commons,
and, any student occupying a room in this building, failing
to remain at the commons for any portion of the session, will vacate
the same.

             

Single room	$35.00
Double room	40.00
Double room with study (only one such room in building)	50.00
No janitor service is provided for rooms in this building.
The single rooms are 10×14; 10×15, or 10×16.
The double rooms are 14×15; 15×15, or 15×17.
The study is 9′ 6″×11′ 6″.

East Range.

   

Rooms in Old Gymnasium building (8)	$60.00
Other rooms on East Range	72.00

West Range.

   

Rooms, no heat, but provided with grate (4)	60.00
Other rooms	72.00

East and West Lawns.

   

Rooms in Bachelor's Row (9) (smaller than others)	70.00
Other rooms	75.00

Dawson's Row.

 

Rooms

75.00

Dawson's Row comprises seven detached 8-room houses, water
closet in each house, lavatory with running water in each room.
Bath house with shower is provided for this row.

Monroe Hill.

 

Single room, no heat, but provided with grate

$54.00

The rooms on East and West Lawns, East and West Ranges,
Dawson's Row and Monroe Hill, with the exception of Bachelor's
Row on West Lawn, are commodious and are frequently occupied
by two students, in which event no extra charge is made.

Two students may rent a room together, each paying his half of
the rent.

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 will be furnished at the University Commons at
$15.00 per month, or may be obtained at private houses outside of
the university grounds at prices ranging from $15 to $25 a month.

Board and lodging can be obtained 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 years' 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.

A.
TABULATED STATEMENT OF PROBABLE NECESSARY EXPENSES IN THE COLLEGE.

                   

	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

B.
TABULATED STATEMENT OF PROBABLE NECESSARY EXPENSES IN THE GRADUATE
DEPARTMENT.

                   

	VIRGINIANS			NON VIRGINIANS
	Low	Average	Liberal	Low	Average	Liberal
University Fee	$ 10	$ 10	$ 10	$ 40	$ 40	$ 40
Tuition	0	0	0	75	75	75
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	$325	$405	$460

C. TABULATED STATEMENT OF PROBABLE NECESSARY EXPENSES IN THE DEPARTMENTS
OF LAW AND MEDICINE.

                 

	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

D. TABULATED STATEMENT OF PROBABLE NECESSARY EXPENSES IN THE DEPARTMENT
OF ENGINEERING.

                 

	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.