Tuition and Fees
Annual tuition
$100.00
Fee for the second exam
50.00
Graduation fees:
any four-year course for B.S.
10.00
any two-year certificate (Home Ec.)
5.00
Courses of lectures, recitations, and classroom work:
per semester hour weekly, for 18 weeks
2.50
Shop work, drafting, surveying, chemical and physics
laboratories, cooking and sewing: per semester
period weekly, for 18 weeks
5.40
Electrical and mechanical engineering laboritories:
per semester period weekly, for 18 weeks
9.00
Breakage Deposit
Annual deposit for four-year courses
$10.00
Annual deposit for two-year Home Economics Course
2.00
Cost of Living
Rooms:
single
$0.75 to $1.25
double
$1.00 to $2.00
Table Board
Room and Board
Club rates
$2.75 to $3.50
$3.00 and $4.00
Single Rates
$3.25 to $4.00
$3.50 to $4.50
Estimated Expenses for a School Year of 36 Weeks:
Tuition
$100.0
$100.00
Deposit fee
10.00
10.00
Books, stationery,
instruments
30.00
35.00
Room and Board
126.00
144.00
Washing and laundry
10.00
10.00
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$276.00
$299.00
By 1912, these figures had risen. Tuition was pegged at $100 per year, the deposit fee still at
$10, but now a gym fee of $5 had been added, room and board ranged from $162 to $180, and
washing laundry from $14 to $18 per semester, increasing the total range from $321 to $335 per
year.
The March 1925
Integrator
listed the increasing costs for education at some United
States colleges compared to Clarkson’s $200 per year. Princeton, for example, had raised its
tuition to $400 for the year. Harvard had raised its tuition by $50 to $300 per year except for its
Law School which remained at $250. And the University of Nevada raised its tuition for
nonresidents from $50 to $75 to keep nonresident students from crowding out residents and to
provide new instructors and equipment.
Founder’s Day Exercises.
The first Founder’s Day exercises were held in Clarkson Hall, at
eight o’clock in the evening, Thursday, November 30, 1905. The musical program was
rendered by the Welker Orchestra under the leadership of Loy E. Welker ’09, and the vocal
quartet, under the direction of Claire L. Mann. The ceremony was opened by Rev. D.B.
