University of Virginia Library

EXPENSES.

Payment of Fees.—All University charges and rent of rooms in the
university buildings are payable upon entrance. Under special conditions
the President is authorized to allow credit, but 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 that term.

Return of Fees.—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 ill health, which must not
be due to dissolute conduct. Upon receipt of the University Physician's
certificate, the President will return the fees pro rata.

Remission of Fees is made in the following cases:

(1) In accordance with the statute (Virginia Code 1887, Ch. 68, Sec.
1554), fees are remitted to Virginia students as detailed below under University
Charges. In order to be considered a Virginia student, 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 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.

(2) White male teachers and superintendents of the public schools of
Virginia will be admitted, during the last three months of the session, to
the Academic Schools of the University without payment of fees (except
those charged in laboratory courses), upon presentation of certificates that
they have been teachers in the public schools of the State during the year.
Applicants for admission as teachers are required to send in their names
to the President of the University not later than March 5.

(3) Ministers of religion may attend any of the Academic Schools of
the University without payment of the tuition fee. The same privilege will
be extended to any young man who submits testimonials that he is an approved
candidate for the ministry, and unable to meet without aid the
expense of an education.

UNIVERSITY CHARGES.

University Fee.

The university fee, $40 ($10 for Virginia students in the Academic Departments.
$20 for Virginia students in the Department of Engineering),
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 physical training staff (see page
208); and to free medical attendance by the University Physician in case
of illness (see page 72). It also covers all regular examination and diploma
fees.

Contingent Deposit.

The contingent deposit of $10 is intended to cover any damage to university
property for which the student is responsible, and any fines incurred
by violating the rules of the library. (See page 205.) It is returned
at the end of the session, less any charges that may have been
made against it.

Tuition Fees.

In the College: For Virginia students, nothing; for students from
other States, $95 for a regular course; those who, by special permission of
the faculty, take courses aggregating less than fifteen session-hours in any
one session (see page 118), must pay for tuition, in one School $50, in two
Schools, $60, in three Schools $75, in four Schools $95.

In the Department of Graduate Studies: For Virginia students, nothing;
for students from other States, $50 in one School, $60 in two Schools,
$25 each in three or more Schools.

In Analytical Chemistry: $40 for each course.[1] The courses in Analytical
Chemistry, being professional courses, are not provided for by the regular
tuition fees in the Academic Departments, nor are they included among
the courses in which free tuition is given to Virginians and other privileged
students. Students from other states than Virginia taking one or both
courses in Analytical Chemistry in connection with other courses in the
College or the Department of Graduate Studies pay a total tuition fee of
$100.

In the Department of Law: For regular course, $100; students taking
an irregular course pay for tuition according to the relation which the
amount of work taken bears to the regular course. For such course the
tuition fee may be estimated approximately in dollars as three-tenths of
the total number of lecture periods.

In the Department of Medicine: $100.

In the Department of Engineering: For each collegiate course, $25.
For courses in Analytical Chemistry, see above. Virginia students are relieved
of tuition in collegiate courses. The fee for each technical lecture
course is $30; for each practice course in Drawing, $15; for each laboratory
or practice course in Applied Mechanics, Engineering, Shop-work, or Fieldwork,
$5. These fees include all charges for laboratory materials, but the
student is held further responsible for breakage.

Laboratory Fees.

These fees, which vary in amount for different courses, will be found
under the Announcements of Courses in the several departments.

BOARD AND LODGING.

A student may rent a room in one of the university dormitories and
take his meals either 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.
A list of private boarding and lodging houses, with rates, may be
had upon application to the Registrar.

The University Commons.

This building, conveniently situated near the center of the University,
provides an attractive dining hall, with accommodations for seating three
hundred students at one time. Table board is now furnished at $19 per
single calendar month, or, if taken for the entire session, at $18 per month.
It is hoped that it will be possible to continue these rates.

University Dormitories.

Rules.—Students desiring rooms should apply to the Bursar, enclosing
a reservation fee of $5, which will be returned should there be no room to
let.

The occupant of a room may reserve it for the next session by applying
to the Bursar and depositing $5 (which is in no case returnable), not
later than May 1. The balance of the rent must be paid not later than the
first registration day of the session, otherwise such preference or other
right shall be forfeited.

No room may be sublet.

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

Rates.—All rooms are rented unfurnished, but the University has arranged
with a local dealer to place in each room the necessary articles,
consisting of one three-piece enameled bed with comfortable springs, one
thoroughly sanitary all-cotton mattress, one good feather pillow, one solid
oak six-drawer chiffonier with mirror, one student rocker with cane seat
and back, one student straight chair and one student table with 24 × 36-inch
top. This furniture will be placed in the room before the opening of the
session, so that the room will be ready for occupancy immediately upon
arrival. The student will pay the local dealer $15 per session as rent for
the furniture. The rental for the necessary furniture for a room occupied
by two students will be $20. Additional furniture may be rented if desired.
The student should bring bed linen, towels, blankets, etc., or be prepared
to purchase them here.

All rooms are provided with either steam or hot-water heat and electric
light, except where otherwise specified. Janitor service is included in the
rate given, except in the case of the Randall Building.

The rooms on East and West Lawn (with the exception of Bachelors'

Row), East and West Range, and Dawson's Row, are commodious, and are
frequently occupied by two students.

The rates given below are for the session of nine months.

Randall Building.

     

Single rooms, 10 × 14, 10 × 15, 10 × 16 (32)	$35
Double rooms, 14 × 15, 15 × 15, 15 × 17 (9)	40
Double room with study, 9′ 6″ × 11′ 6″ (1)	50

East Range.

   

Rooms in old gymnasium building (8)	$60
Other rooms (26)	72

West Range.

   

Rooms, no heat, but provided with grate (4)	$60
Other rooms (20)	72

East and West Lawns.

   

Rooms in Bachelors' Row (9)	$70
Other rooms (27)	75

Dawson's Row.

 

Rooms (56)

$75

APPROXIMATE SUMMARY OF NECESSARY EXPENSES.

The figures in 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, lodging, board, laundry, and books, but not clothing, traveling
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.
If a student shares a room with another student, and practices the strictest
economy, he may possibly reduce his expenses below the low estimate.

THE COLLEGE.

                   

	Virginians			Non-Virginians
	Low	Average	Liberal	Low	Average	Liberal
University Fee	$ 10	$ 10	$ 10	$ 40	$ 40	$ 40
Tuition Fee				95	95	95
Laboratory Fees (Average Three Years)	5	5	5	5	5	5
Room, Heat, Light, Furniture, and Service	50	90	105	50	90	105
Board	150	200	225	150	200	225
Books	15	25	30	15	25	30
Laundry	15	20	25	15	20	25
Total for Session of Nine Mos.	$245	$350	$400	$370	$475	$525

THE GRADUATE DEPARTMENT.

                   

	Virginians			Non-Virginians
	Low	Average	Liberal	Low	Average	Liberal
University Fee	$ 10	$ 10	$ 10	$ 40	$ 40	$ 40
Tuition Fee				75	75	75
Laboratory Fees (Average Three Years)	5	5	5	5	5	5
Room, Heat, Light, Furniture, and Service	50	90	105	50	90	105
Board	150	200	225	150	200	225
Books	15	25	30	15	25	30
Laundry	15	20	25	15	20	25
Total for Session of Nine Mos.	$245	$350	$400	$350	$455	$505

THE DEPARTMENTS OF LAW AND MEDICINE.

                 

	Department of Law			Department of Medicine.
	Low	Average	Liberal	Low	Average	Liberal
University Fee	$ 40	$ 40	$ 40	$ 40	$ 40	$ 40
Tuition Fee (regular course)	100	100	100	100	100	100
Room, Heat, Light, Furniture, and Service	50	90	105	50	90	105
Board	150	200	225	150	200	225
Books	45	55	65	25	30	35
Laundry	15	25	30	15	25	30
Total for Session of Nine Mos.	$400	$510	$565	$380	$485	$535

THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING.

                 

	Virginians			Non-Virginians
	Low	Average	Liberal	Low	Average	Liberal
University Fee	$ 20	$ 20	$ 20	$ 40	$ 40	$ 40
Tuition and Laboratory Fees (Average Four Years)	80	80	80	120	120	120
Room, Heat, Light, Furniture, and Service	50	90	105	50	90	105
Board	150	200	225	150	200	225
Books and Materials	15	20	25	15	20	25
Laundry	15	25	30	15	25	30
Total for Session of Nine Mos.	$330	$435	$485	$390	$495	$545

Student Self-Help.—Every possible opportunity for obtaining remunerative
employment is afforded to students who are desirous of helping by
this means to pay their way through the University, 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 which
will pay his living expenses and university charges for the remainder of the
academic year. While it is difficult for any student to be assured of remunerative
work before he reaches the University, information as to such
employment may be had from the Secretary of the Committee on Student
Self-Help, Madison Hall.

For Loan Funds for deserving students, see page 86.