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EXPENSES.
A student's expenses consist of the following:
(1) University charges which are the same for all students;
(2) School Fees, which depend upon the course of study pursued;
(3) Cost of living, board, etc.
1. Under the first head are included the University fee, $40, and the
contingent deposit, $10.
The University, or Matriculation, 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 members of the Medical
Faculty in case of illness, including, if needed, care and nursing in a
well-equipped infirmary maintained on the University grounds for
students only. It also covers all 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.
2. 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 for 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 is $50 and for
apparatus about $10 for one course, and for both courses pursued the
same year for tuition and materials, $100, and for apparatus, about $15;
the charges for a graduate course in Chemistry are, tuition $50,
materials about $10, apparatus about $10; the fee for Agricultural
Chemistry is $15, but this course is free to students in the Schools of
Chemistry and to unmatriculated farmers; and there is a laboratory
fee for materials of $10 in the B. A. course and of $20 in the M. A.
course in Comparative Anatomy. The tuition fees in the Academic
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 Engineering the fee for Applied Mathematics
is $50; for other subjects, the same as in the Academic Department.
In the Department of Agriculture the fees are the same as in the
Academic Department.
In the Department of Medicine the fee for the first year is $110;
second year, $100; third year, $80; fourth year, $60. The special fees
for single subjects are, Medical Chemistry, $30; Biology (including
materials), $35; Anatomy (including materials), $45; Regional Anatomy
(including materials), $10; General Pathology, $25; Pathogenic
Bacteriology and Surgical Diseases, $35; Physiology, $30; Materia
Medica, $20; Therapeutics, $10; Embryology, $10; Obstetrics (with
manikin work), $20; Gynecology, $20; Surgery, $20; Practice of Medicine,
$30; Special Pathology and Clinical Diagnosis, $10; Dermatology
and diseases of the Eye and Ear, $15; Hygiene, $10; Medical Jurisprudence,
$10; Clinics (collectively), $30.
In the Department of Law the fee for each regular year's course or
for any five classes is $100; more than five classes (combining first and
second year's courses), $115; four classes, $85; three classes, $65; two
classes, $40; one class, $25.
3. 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 meals with a Mess Club, or in a University Hotel, 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 nor servant's
hire to the University. The price of University rooms range
according to their desirability, from $25 to $40 for the session: the
large majority rent for $30; but there are a few single rooms at $25, 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 $20; fuel
and lights cost about $25 for the session, and washing from $1.50
upward per month. With the strictest economy the cost of board,
fuel, lights, service, and laundry can be brought within $18 a month
as an average for the session. Rooms and board may be had in private
families or boarding-houses at varying prices, but good accommodations
can not be obtained at a cost materially below the estimate just
given.
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.
The following table will enable the prospective student to form an
approximate estimate of the cost of a year at the University. It of
course makes no account of clothing and other personal expenses, or
of the cost of travel. The contingent fee is omitted, as not necessarily
involving expenditure.
| Univ. Fee. | Tuition. | Books, etc. | Living. | Total. | |
| Academic: | $40 | [1] $ 75 | $15 to $25 | $135 to $270 | [1]$265 to $400 |
| (for three schools) | |||||
| Engineering: | $40 | $100 | $15 to $25 | $135 to $270 | $290 to $425 |
| Agriculture: | $40 | $ 75 | $15 to $25 | $135 to $270 | $265 to $400 |
| Medicine: | $40 | $110 | $20 | $135 to $270 | $305 to $450 |
| (the first year) | |||||
| Law: | $40 | $100 | $45 | $135 to $270 | $320 to $455 |
Matriculation fees, the contingent deposits, rents of rooms in the
University buildings, and the service for the same are payable upon
entrance. Tuition fees are payable, one-half on entrance, and the
remainder the first week in January.
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 Department
(excepting the laboratory courses in Chemistry), subject to
the conditions stated below. Such students are required to pay the
Matriculation fee and make the usual Contingent deposit. They are
also required to pay the regular laboratory charges for materials, etc.,
in 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 $60 to $100 according to the number of Schools elected.
The Faculty are required by the law above referred to to satisfy
themselves in the case of each applicant, either by actual examinations
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 required as follows. The
examinations are held at the beginning of the session; due announcement
is made of the hour and place of each:
1. For admission to the School of Latin, on forms, syntax, and Books i, ii of
Caesar's Commentaries, with Cicero's Orations against Catiline.
2. For admission to the School of Greek, on forms, syntax, and three Books
of Xenophon.
3. For admission to the School of Mathematics, Geometry, Algebra, and Plane
Trigonometry.
For admission to the other Schools, a good English education is
alone required.
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 intentions 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 Literary or Scientific Schools of the University without the payment
of tuition fees. 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 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 Department 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 are required to send in their names to the
Chairman of the Faculty not later than March 5. Lodgings can be
had near the University. The only necessary expenses will be for
board, lights, and washing, which will together cost from $5 to $7 a
week.
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