The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-12-26
MEDIC" COURSE
COSTS MOST AT u
Examiner Gives Comparative Expend-
itures in Different Colleges of State
Institution at Minneapolis.
GRADUATE is THE CHEAPEST
With $34.3l Annual Average 1t Is
Much Less Than Any Of Others
Dentistry and Law Come Next.

Dentistry and Law Come Next.
It costs the state far more to edu-
cate a student in the medical school
of the university than it does for a
student in any other university COL
lege or department., according to the
report Of the public examiner on uni
versity accounting for last year.
This report, is a statement of the
net per capita cost for the different
schools and colleges, places the medi-
cal school average per student for one
year as $762.51. This is more than
three times per capita cost stated for
the engineering college, more than
four times the per capita cost in the
academic college, more than five
times the student average in the law
school and more than seven times the
average in the dentistry college.
Explained by Comptroller.
George H. Hayes, university comp
troller, was asked to explain the fig
ures. Was it true that the univer-
sity could train five lawyers for the
money spent in turning out one
physician and still have enough left
over to take care of two students in
the graduate school? Could it turn
out two scientific farmers from the
college Of agriculture for the cost Of
one physician and have enough left,
lacking 4 cents, to carry teacher
through year of the college Of edu-
cation?
Mr.. Hayes explained. He said that
the examiners figures were mislead-
ing and fell far short of revealing the
real situation. "The various colleges
Of the university" he said, "are too
closely corraled that any attempt to
arrive at per capita student cost
to the institution by Individual COL
leges must be a vain one. The only
enlightening average in this connec-
ton would be the per capita for the
whole student enrolment, independ-
ent of college affiliaton. We have
been trying for some time to reducet
the system of cost accounting so as to
deal with the student as a unit in
stead of the college, and when we get
this worked out we should have some
thing worth while.
Medical Cost Misleading.
"To say that the medical school per
capita cost is $762.51 is wholly mis-
leading. AS matter of fact, the an
atomy department of the medical
school teaches physiology and anato-
my to hundreds of students enrolled
in other colleges. Yet the apportion-
ment per capita, as made by the ex-
aminer, is on the basis of the actual
enrolment in the medical school pro-
per. The dentistry college is given
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the early work of this college is done
in the medical school.
1.-THE per capita of the school of
chemistry is given at $377.8S. Now
this school enrolls only few hundred
students in the school proper but
teaches general chemistry to all the
students in the academic college and
to students enrolled in other colleges,
such as engineering, mines, agricul-
ture, etc. Yet the school Of chemistry
as an entity is charged by the exam
liner with the cost of all this instruc-
ton, whereas a due share belongs to
the different colleges profting by it's
activities. In other words, the ex-
aminer's per capita schedule fails to
reveal the true condition Of average
expenditures per student"
1.-THE examiners statement of per
capita student cost for the year ended
July 81, 1918, by school of colleges,
was as follows:
Costs in Different Colleges.