College Costs

A Dartmouth freshman who steps off the train at Hanover, N. H. next September with resources of less than $1,050 for the nine months following will soon find himself a victim of acute financial anxiety. He will need that sum to pay his tuition, his room & board and incidentals and there will not be a cent left for clothing, travel or amusement. If he plans to join a fraternity he will have to scrape up an additional $100 or $150. And if he is going to live like his other classmates at Dartmouth, he will find by next June that his outlay has been in the neighborhood of $1,700--highest in the land.

Such were some of the facts contained in a pamphlet prepared by Walter J. Greenleaf, specialist in Higher Education, issued last week by the U. S. Office of Education. Specialist Greenleaf had queried every one of the 1,462 U. S. colleges and universities on freshman costs, including all kinds of fees, books, supplies, laundry, had compiled the results as "The Cost of Going to College." Among other things he found that:

P:This year freshmen will pay an average of $630 for nine months instruction.

P:Most expensive men's college is Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where the minimum cost is $1,080.

P:At Yale, a penny-pinching freshman can squeeze by, by paying $450 for tuition, $10 for fees, $75 for room, $265 for board, $250 for incidentals--a total of $1,050--but most of his classmates will be spending $1,300 or more.

P:Harvard is cheaper than Yale. There a freshman can skimp through on $990 minimum.

P:Princeton is cheaper than Harvard--$933.

P:Most expensive women's college is Vassar, where no girl can get through on less than $1,350.

P:Any competent hillbilly who can raise $172 and railroad fare may matriculate at Berea College in the Kentucky mountains, where work for all helps keep expenses down. But the average Berea freshman spends $202 a year.

P:Residents of New York may go to C. C. N. Y. and Brooklyn and Hunter Colleges, where tuition costs nothing and all fees amount to $1.

P:Freshmen who hope to send home expense accounts containing plenty of "incidentals" may consider Virginia Military Institute. There, a minimum cost of $800 includes $330 for such incidentals as shako, white trousers, coatee, and blouse.

P:Cheapest institutions are Negro colleges ($250 average minimum) and State colleges for women ($257). Most expensive are private colleges for women ($901 average minimum) and men ($818).

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