 | University of Virginia March, 1907 |  |
EXPENSES.
A student's expenses consist of the following:
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. Under the first head are included the University fee, $40 ($10 for
Virginians in Academic Departments), and the contingent deposit, $10; as
well as the special Entrance Examination fee of five dollars, or the delinquent
registration fee of three dollars, or a fee for reöxamination in
any subject, where either of these is incurred.
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 members of the Medical Faculty 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.
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 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.
II. 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 Departments the tuition fee for one School is $50;
for two, $30 each; for three or more, $25 each; except that in Analytical
for apparatus about $10, and for both courses $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, 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.
The tuition fees in the Academic Departments are remitted to Virginia
students, to public school 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 Law the fee for each regular year's course,
or for any six classes, is $100; more than six classes (combining first
and second year's course), $115; five classes, $85; four classes, $75;
three classes, $60; two classes, $45; one class, $25. The fees for students
who return for a third year are considerably less.
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; Pathology, $25; Bacteriology, $35;
Physiology, $30; Materia Medica, $20; Therapeutics, $10; Embryology,
$10; Obstetrics (with manikin work), $20; Gynecology, $20; Surgery,
$20; Practice of Medicine, $30; Clinical Diagnosis, $10; Dermatology
and Diseases of the Eye and Ear, $15; Hygiene, $10; Medical Jurisprudence,
$10; Clinics (collectively), $30.
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. 191-195. For these students the fee for
tuition is $80 for the first year, $70 for the second, $60 for the third, and
$50 for the fourth. 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 these
charges. (Compare pp. 96-97.)
In the Department of Agriculture the fees are the same as in the
Academic Departments.
III. 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 with a Mess Club, or in the University Commons,
which is in course of construction, or in an approved private boardinghouse;
or he may take both room and board in such boarding-house, in
which case he pays no room-rent or servant's hire to the University. The
price of University rooms ranges, according to their desirability, from $25
to $50 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 $15, fuel
and lights combined cost about $25 for the session, and washing from
$1.50 upward per month. With strict 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.
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 | |
| Academics: | [1] $40 | $75 | $15 to $25 | $135 to $270 | [1]$265 to $410 |
| (for three schools) | |||||
| Law: | $40 | $100 | $55 | $135 to $270 | $330 to $465 |
| Medicine: | $40 | $88 | $20 | $135 to $270 | $283 to $418 |
| (average) | |||||
| Engineering: | $40 | $75 | $15 to $25 | $135 to $270 | $265 to $400 |
| Agriculture: | $40 | $75 | $15 to $25 | $135 to $270 | $265 to $400 |
All tuition fees, University fees, the contingent deposits, 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 from Virginia.—In compliance with the statute (Virginia
Code 1887, Ch. 68, Sec. 1554), the University offers to white male students
charge for tuition, in all the Schools of the Academic Departments (excepting
the laboratory courses in Chemistry), subject to the conditions
stated below. Such students are required to pay the University fee
(by the recent action of the legislature, three-fourths of the University fee
is also remitted to such students) 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.
The Faculty are required by the law mentioned above 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, therefore, required as described in a preceding section.
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 intention
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
Academic 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 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 5th.
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.
Pecuniary Aid to Students.—Effort is now being made to provide a
fund, the income of which will be applied in rendering financial assistance
to deserving students. In the meantime opportunity is afforded as far as
possible to those who are desirous of helping themselves by their own
industry. Among positions now held by University students who are in
part earning their living here are those of organist, choir leader, assistant
librarian, mechanician, table waiter, clothes presser, reader, stenographer,
typewriter, and clerical assistant. Among other positions that may be
open are those of lecture-room or laboratory attendant, gardener, bookstore
keeper, etc. Students have also from time to time found employment
in Charlottesville as telegraphers, teachers, newspaper carriers, and in
other ways. While it is difficult for any student to be assured of a
position of the sort before he reaches the University, correspondence with
reference to such employment may be had by addressing Dr. Hugh M.
McIlhany, Secretary of the Committee on Student Self-Help, Madison Hall.
The University Commons.—This building is now in course of construction
and is designed to provide an attractive Dining Hall with all
modern conveniences and comfort, and at the same time to furnish board
at such reasonable rates that students in straitened circumstances need
not thereby be deprived of daily association with their more fortunate
fellows. This Dining Hall will be the means of greatly reducing a
student's living expenses.
Coöperative Store.—During the session of 1905-1906, under the auspices
of the Coöperative Society, a coöperative store was opened on the
University grounds, with the purpose of supplying books and other student
necessaries at a minimum cost. The enterprise has the sanction of the
University authorities, and is under the management of a directorate
composed of three members of the Faculty, the General Secretary of the
Young Men's Christian Association, and four students selected from the
Academic, Law, Medical, and Engineering departments. Books and other
needful supplies are sold to members as nearly as possible at first cost—
a small percentage being added to pay operating expenses. Membership
in the Society is open to all students on payment of a fee of one dollar.
Sales are made for cash only, and in no case is credit extended. The
latter feature should especially commend itself to parents and guardians,
as the purchasing of supplies on credit is one of the evils which it is the
design of the Coöperative Society to eliminate from student life.
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