Natural Sciences Tripos

Course Costs 2011-12

Please note: Every effort has been made to ensure that the course costs given below for courses within the Natural Sciences Tripos were accurate at the time of publication. The University reserves the right to review and revise the costs without prior notification and you are advised that their publication here serves only as an indicator of course costs for current and future years. The publication of this information does not form part of any contractual arrangement of costs associated with studying at the University.

General Tripos requirements

A essential University-approved calculator £14
B essential
for some courses		 labcoat
Safety spectacles		 approx £10
approx £3
C non-essential books etc., as advised in course documentation at student's discretion
library books are available
D non-essential specialist equipment can be borrowed if necessary

Costs for individual courses

The following courses have direct additional costs to students associated with them:

First Year (Part IA) courses

Second Year (Part IB) courses

Third Year (Part II) courses

Fourth Year (Part III) courses

Part IA Earth Sciences

E essential one-week field course
(Arran: Easter Vacation)		 £60

Part IA Evolution and Behaviour

F non-essential one-week field course
(various locations: Easter Vacation)		 approximately £50 + travel costs

Part IB Ecology

G non-essential
but highly desirable		 12-day field course (limited to 40 places)
(Juniper Hall: Long Vacation prior to course)		 £100

Part IB Geological Sciences A and B

H essential ten-day mapping course
(Cumbria: Long Vacation before course)		 £75
I essential two-week field course
(Dorset/Cornwall: Easter Vacation)		 £70

Part IB Plant and Microbial Sciences

J non-essential
but highly desirable		 one-week field course
(Portugal: Easter Vacation)		 £120

Part IB Physiology

K non-essential set of electron micrographs £1

Part II Geological Sciences

L essential ten-day mapping course
(Skye: Long Vacation prior to course)		 £75
M essential eight-day tectonics field course [same as Q]
(Greece: Christmas Vacation)		 £115
N essential one-month individual project fieldwork
(Long Vacation prior to course)		 any costs above £400
Total cost depends on choice of location

Part II Zoology

P non-essential
but highly desirable		 12-day field course
(Holt, Norfolk: Long Vacation prior to course)
may count towards practical assessment component		 £60

Part III Experimental and Theoretical Physics

Q non-essential
part of a Major Option		 eight-day tectonics field course [same as M]
(Greece: Christmas Vacation)		 £115

Part III Geological Sciences

R essential individual project
may involve optional fieldwork costs		 any costs associated with optional fieldwork
S essential one-week field course
(Spain: Easter Vacation)		 £75

The title of this document is: Natural Sciences Tripos: Course Costs
URL: http://www.cam.ac.uk/about/natscitripos/students/costs.html