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st for Least! young people to give the is service. But the cost of rohibitive to many young targes beyond their other honors are relieving choice shown in the facts below.
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United States Government Report on Protestant Schools Average Annual Costs for Various Kinds o f Institutions o f Higher Education (1 9 3 3 -3 4 ). Compiled by Walter J. Greenleaf, Specialist in Higher Education, U. S. Office o f Education, Washington, D. C. (From pamphlet, “ The Cost o f Going to College,” published by the Office o f Education, 19 34 )
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Institutions of Higher Education Denominational : Men ................... . . . W omen ............... . . . 32 Coeducational........ 212 Average of Types of 2 1
State Resident
Fees
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Incidentals
PROTESTANT
$223 187 156
$38 24 25
$570 548 431
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$50 38 45
$223 187 156
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188
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185
516
188
73
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None Charged
None Charged
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380
100
210
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* Italicized row o f averages, as well as Bible Institute o f Los Angeles facts, added to Dr. Greenleaf8 table by 118. Dr. Greenleaf’s Summary—
only the 265 denominational Protest ant colleges of this larger group.] the average minimum expense is $540 per year. However, when schools are grouped in various ways, the averages show a wide variation. . . . Among the denominationally controlled insti tutions, minimum expenses average as follows: Protestant denominations: Men $570; Women $548; Coed $431.” Compare these figures with Biola’s total annual expense of $ 3 8 0 per student. Col. 7: INCIDENTALS. This item includes laundry, etc. We are using the highest estimate made by Dr. Greenleaf in order to be absolutely fair in our comparison and also to allow for the slightly higher expenses of graduation year at Biola. Col. 8: FRESHMAN MINIMUM. Compare the average of $516—the average for the freshman year among all three types of Christian colleges listed—with the $380 expense at Biola, and note the saving—$136. Multiply the annual excess o f $136 by four years, and the total o f $544 is the valuable gift that the Christian donors of Biola are making to each of our four-year graduates. Compare these records of giving with the charges of all the other Christian institutions listed, and you will see how great is the contribution of this Institute to the Christian youth of America.
A V ER AG E MINIMUM COSTS “ The lowest amount of money which will cover the bare essentials of a freshman for nine months in college has been estimated for various types o f institutions. Costs vary upward from this figure, as this is supposed to be the least amount that a student can get along with during freshman years. In 468 institutions offering liberal arts curricula [Our table shows Col. 1: NUMBER OF COLLEGES. PleaSe note the large number o f col leges represented—265 in all. They include practically every Protestant denomination, and all states of the nation. Cols. 2-3: TUITION. Tuition is the largest single item listed—ranging from $156 to $223, or an average of $188 yearly among the types of schools. How many millions of our young people are growing up surrounded by the materialistic and atheistic influ ences of the average secular college and university, because they cannot afford the tuition payments required by most of our Christian schools, ex cept our Bible Institutes? The Bible Institute of Los Angeles has taken a firm stand in this matter, and makes no charge for tuition, trusting to the prayers and gifts of God’s people to supply the funds for this training, and willing to live on a
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Notes on the Above Table as Applied to Biola
day-to-day basis rather than to send a single qualified student away. Col 4: FEES. The average charge among the three kinds of colleges is $29 for the first or freshman year. At Biola it never exceeds $20 for a year’s registration fees. Col. 5: ROOM. The Bible Institute of Los Angeles, with its fireproof con crete building and its central city lo cation, must charge more than does the average college located in a rural community, where land is cheaper, taxes are lower, and investment is far less than in the thirteen-story, height- limit building, steam heated and elec trically lighted, furnished by Biola. The Institute believes in the value of comfortable housing as adding to the efficiency o f its students. Col. 6: BOARD. The cost of food is a little higher at Biola, and the food is better, we believe, than at the aver age college.
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