The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-12
EDUCATION COSTS
STATE UNIVERSITY
Reduction Shown For The
Students This Year
FIGURES ARE GIVEN
Member Collegiate Grade Pays
1914 Year; Enrolment
Will Reach $4,000.

The average gross cost OF giving i
student oil college rank a year Of
education at the University o. Min
nesota was 1879 in l920-2I, S341 in
1921 and $S14 in 1922 1898, &C
corning to compilation maze public
by J. J Petnjohn, assistant to the
president. The increased cost IN the
was due to the fact that in that year
second OF the three years mentioned
the work in some university depart
ments was brought up to the new
economic level after suffering
through the war period and early
postwar years, Mr.. Pettijohn said.
These figures, he explained, do not
represent cost to taxpayers, which
is about $50 a student less, the diff
ference being made up by perma-
aent university funds, federal aid,
and donations.
in determining cost of instruC L.
ton" said Mr.. Pettijohn, "salarics
and wages, supplies and general ex =
EenseS together with building main
tenance were the things taken into
account"
Capital outlay has been excluded
from the figure as it varies so great
ly from year to year that no exact
comparison could be made. 1t would
add, however, about $29 a year to
the cost of maintaining student at
the university.
Capital Outlay Excluded
This number Of students of col
legiate grade taken into account in
the computation were 1884 for the
first year, 10,425 for the second, and
1881 for the third
The total number in attendance
during the entire year, rather than
the number present at any given
time was used as the basis. Mr.. Pet
tijohn predicted that this figure will
mount as high as $4,000 for the pres
emit year, nearly 700 more than the
figure he used in the cost computa-
ton.
Work Broader Than Teaching
I'm ad6tion to those collegiate
grade students" he said, I'VE have
many sub collegiate students attend.
ing the university-those in the ag-
ricultural schools at Crookston, Nor
ris, at the University Farm and the
University High school. This year
we have 1,oSS of these students, not
included in the figures given. Then
there are 4,149 students in extension
courses and correspondence study
work who are of collegiate grade
Dut are not included because they
are not in residence at the univer-
sity. Before the year is over these
will bring the number of individuals
instructed in university classes to at
least $4,000. not including 1,500 to
1900 in agricultural short courses"
Because OF the investigative and
experimental work necessarily con
Quoted by some colleges and schools.
only part of the money spent can be
set down as. cost of instruction, he
said. For example, only 20 per cent
of the money spent by the college of
agriculture is for actual instruction
of students of collegiate grade.
Again, the school of mines and tn.
mines experim emit station carry on
work for the state tax commission,
for the Federal government, ana
conduct peat fuel and ores investi-
cation for the state. but not always
directly connected with actual teach.
ing.
Figures given by Mr.. Pettijohn
were an average. The range in col
leges is from $219 per student in the
college of arts to $461 per student in
the college OF medicine and $500 in
the college of agriculture.