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CHAPTER V.

OF ACADEMICAL EXPENSES.

THE Cost of living at Oxford varies so largely with the means, tastes, and moral courage of a student that it is not possible to lay down many general propositions respecting it. The total amount is made up in each case of several elements: there are certain fixed expenses which are common to all alike, such as University and College fees: there are other expenses, such as those of board and lodging, which, though varying with particular cases, vary only, as far as the Colleges and Halls are concerned, within definite limits: there are others, such as subscriptions to clubs or societies, which are common but voluntary: there are others, such as tradesmen's bills, which are not special to University life, and which are almost wholly within a student's power to fix for himself.

If the first two of these four classes of expenditure be alone taken into consideration, it is a matter of experience that a student who resides within a College or Hall can, with economy, obtain the degree of B.A. for a total expenditure of £300. This estimate includes board, room-rent or lodging, and washing, for twelve Terms of residence, tuition and miscellaneous College charges, admission, examination, and degree fees: the necessary expenses which it does not include are clothes, books, railway fares, and the cost of living in the vacations. Many students have been known to obtain their degree for less than the sum above mentioned: but this has required a more than ordinary amount of thrift and self-denial, and possibly also a forfeiture of some collateral advantages which University life brings.

Members of Colleges and Halls who reside in lodgings are, in most cases, on the same footing as Non-Collegiate Students in

respect of entire freedom in the regulation of such expenses as are involved in board and lodging. They have usually, however, to bear a certain share in the cost of the College establishment; but at Balliol and New Colleges the sum so paid is less than the difference between the University fees which are payable by a member of a College or Hall and those which are payable by a Non-Collegiate Student. The only pecuniary advantage which a Non-Collegiate Student enjoys over a member of one of those societies is, that he is not liable to the payment of the tuition fee which is charged upon members of Colleges.

Some Colleges and Halls have of late revised their scale of charges, and made new arrangements with a view to the reduction of necessary expenses. For example, the deposit of a sum of money on admission, which was formerly required from all students as a guarantee against possible loss, is no longer required at certain Colleges and Halls from those who pay their battels in advance: the difficulties which arose to many students of slender means from being compelled to purchase the furniture of their rooms on coming into residence are obviated in several Colleges and Halls by allowing the hire of furniture from the College: the miscellaneous charges have been in several instances gathered together into a fixed annual payment: and at Keble College, St. Mary Hall, and St. Edmund Hall, the payment of a fixed annual sum is made to cover, with trifling exceptions, all 'necessary academical expenses.

In the following statement are gathered together, (1) all fees which are payable to the University, (2) as much information as is at present available in regard to the charges of Colleges and Halls. It has not been attempted to include any expenses except those which are independent of the personal tastes of a student.

I. UNIVERSITY FEES.

1. MATRICULATION FEES.

These Fees are payable at the time of presentation to the
Vice-Chancellor.

A Bible-Clerk, or Scholar admitted to a College or Hall on condition of receiving free board and tuition

Every other person

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These Fees (with the exception of the second of the tavo fees in Music and the second and fourth in Medicine) are payable when the name of a Candidate is entered on the list for Examination.

Responsions

First Public Examination:

1. For Examination in Greek and Latin Literature, whether for Honours or not, and also for reexamination in the Gospels or the substituted matter, under the arrangement mentioned on p. 140

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2. For Examination for Mathematical Honours If a Candidate's name be entered later than the specified time, an additional fee of Two Guineas must be paid.

Second Public Examination:

(1) For Examination in the Rudiments of Faith
and Religion, or in the substituted matter
(2) For each of the subjects in the Pass School,
whether offered separately or together

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(3) For any Honour School, except the School of Natural Science

(4) For the School of Natural Science:

1. For each of the subjects in the Preliminary
Examination, whether offered separately
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If a Candidate's name be entered later than the specified time, an additional fee of Two Guineas must be paid on each occasion.

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(1) Before each of the two Examinations for the Degree of B.M.

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(3) Before the Examination in Preventive Medicine (4) After the Examination in Preventive Medicine

3. DEGREE FEES.

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These Fees are payable in the Apodyterium of the Convocation House immediately before the Degree is taken.

Degree of Bachelor of Arts

Degree of Master of Arts

But for any one who has been admitted to the Degree of Bachelor of Civil Law or of Medicine

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4. INCORPORATION FEES.

These Fees are payable immediately before Incorporation takes place, and are in addition to the Matriculation fee of £2 10s.

For an Undergraduate

For a Bachelor of Arts

For a Master of Arts

For a Bachelor of Divinity, Civil Law, or Medicine
For a Doctor of Divinity, Civil Law, or Medicine
For a Bachelor of Music

For a Doctor of Music

5. QUARTERLY FEE.

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This Fee is usually paid in the first instance by the College or Hall, and included in the quarterly or terminal account.

For every Member of the University:

(1) Till the end of four years from his Matriculation, or till he shall have taken the degree of B.A., whichever shall happen first

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(2) From the end of four years after Matriculation, or from his taking the degree of B.A., whichever shall happen first

6. MISCELLANEOUS FEES.

To the Clerk of the Schools for every Certificate of having satisfied the Examiners in any Examination, or of a Candidate's name having been placed in any Class-list

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To the University Chest (through the Registrar of the University):

(1) For a copy of any Matriculation-paper or Examination Certificate

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(2) For a Certificate of having obtained any

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