Joseph inquired further and learned that although the tuition for doctoral students nowadays is only 300 francs per year—with the royal family providing an annual subsidy of 800 francs—they must personally come up with an additional 800 to 2,000 francs per year, depending on their field, to conduct research unhindered and eventually complete their dissertations.
This sum of money is something ordinary people simply cannot afford. As a result, those applying for doctorates are primarily nobles and major capitalists.
Tener managed to scrape together enough for his studies by working at the Royal Chemical Factory, but doctoral advisors still prefer the children of nobles or major capitalists. After all, they wouldn't require financial support and might even finance their experiments.
