State-run Shanghai Business School and State-run Shanghai Medical College, the tuition fee is 20 silver dollars/year, but the accommodation fee is 12 silver dollars, ***32 yuan.
Jiaotong University affiliated to the Ministry of Railways: 40 yuan.
National Beiping Normal University: tuition and accommodation fees are exempted, but the deposit paid by 20 yuan will be refunded upon graduation (or death), and the deposit paid will not be refunded.
Normal schools will not charge boarding fees.
Official undergraduate student in yenching university: 162 yuan.
Fu Jen Catholic University, St John's University in Shanghai, Hujiang University in Guangzhou, Lingnan University: about 160 yuan.
Nankai University: 90 yuan.
Beijing Private National People's University: 5 1 yuan.
Private Peiping Railway University: 58 yuan.
Private Sino-French University: 45 yuan.
Shanghai Fudan University and Guanghua University: 100 yuan.
Shanghai Datong University: 120 yuan.
Shanghai Daxia University: 90 yuan.
National University: 22-40 yuan, Normal University doesn't even charge tuition.
Private universities: 45- 120 yuan, with a median of 90 yuan.
Christian University: about 160 yuan.
(Let's look at the income of residents at that time)
The average annual living expenses of a typical worker family of four is 454 yuan. At that time, the monthly salary of ordinary workers was 16-33 yuan, with an average of 22 yuan.
(see purchasing power)
At that time, a silver dollar was equivalent to 1997 30 yuan RMB, which means that the tuition fees of national universities in 1930s were equivalent to 660 yuan RMB today. The tuition of private universities is equivalent to 2700 yuan today, and the tuition of the most expensive missionary universities is equivalent to 4800 yuan today.