The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-07-03
EXPRESS LIGHT AT SALTWATER
AVERAGE FOR FOUR YEARS
COURSE is ONLY 81 OPS.
And 81 Per Cent Of the Students Earn
Their Own Expenses.-compari-
son With Other Schools.

The cost of attendance for -four
years at Oklahoma Agricultural and
Mechanical College is less than at any
OF ten other leading agricultural col
leges in the United States that were
included in recent survey by prom
inent farm journal printed at Chicago,
The average cost of attendance for
four years, the full college course, is
but $1,025 at Oklahoma A. C NJ. Col
lege, according to this authority. The
average for the eleven schools inves.
tigated is $1,57O.SS.
The schools that were included In
this survey were Wisconsin, Illinois,
Iowa, California, Indiana, Missouri,
Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Michigan
and Oklahoma. Questionaires were
sent out to all members of the grad
uating classes of these institutions.
The replies furnish a basis for some
highly interesting statistics.
Not only was 1t found that expenses
at Oklahoma Agricultural and Me.
chanical College are a third less than
the average for the eleven schools,
but the Oklahoma school ranks first
In the percentage of expenses earned
by students. Fifty-seven percent of
student expenses here are met by
money earned by the students while
going to school.
The average cost of four-year
course at the eleven schools investi.
gated was found to be as follows:
Wisconsin, 1924; Illinois, $1,857;
Iowa, $l,7SO; California, $1.729; In
diana, Sits; Missouri, $1,5O5; Kan
sas. $1,5O4; Nebraska, $1,4S7; Colo
RADIO, $1,46O; Michigan, $1,32S; Okla
homa, $1,025.
While Oklahoma comes last in the
list of schools by expenses of the
four-year period 1t heads the list in
percentage of expenses earned, the
schools ranking as follows: Okla
homa, 81 percent; Nebraska, SO per-
cent; California, 81 percent; Mich!-
gan, "A percent; Kansas, 40 percent;
Missouri, SO percent; Iowa, "a per-
cent; Colorado, "a percent; Illinois,
81 percent; Wisconsin, 81 percent;
Indiana, 22.1 percent.
In the number Of students who were
farm reared or had farm experience,
Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanf
cal College stood third in the list.
The schools rank as follows when
compared in this way: Indiana, 80
percent; Kansas, "a percent; Okla
homa, SO percent; Nebraska, 70 per-
cent; Colorado, 60 percent; Iowa, sc
percent: Michigan, Sc percent; Cali
fornia, 55 percent; Missouri, SO per-
cent; Wisconsin, so percent; Illinois,
40 percent.
An interesting situation in farm
life in Indiana was revealed by the
investigation. Sixty-nine percent of
the graduates of the agricultural col
lege at Purdue University either now
own farms or will inherit farms from
relatives. The number of boys at
the various schools who now own or
will inherit farms is expressed in per-
cent as follows: Indiana, 50; Kansas,
so; Illinois, 46; Nebraska, "A; Okla
homa, Al; Iowa, Al; Missouri, IS;
Michigan, "a Wisconsin, 80; Colo
RADIO, 30; California, %.
The investigation covers the strong
est agricultural colleges of the middle
west, which means the strongest i'll
the nation. The figures compiled
from these eleven colleges are doubt
less representative of the entire Unit
ed States. These figures show con-
oiusively that the Oklahoma boy who
desires an education in agriculture
can get it in his own state at much
less expense, and that his chances of
paying his own way are greater here,
than at any other school in the coun-
try.
No state in the Union has been
more liberal than Oklahoma in tho
matter Of education. At Oklahoma
Agricultural and Mechanical College
no tuition is charged and there are
ru fees tn nav