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 | £11-17 |
| B | essential for some courses |
labcoat Safety spectacles |
approx £11 approx £3 - £6 |
| 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:
| Part IA Earth Sciences | |||
| E | essential | One-week field course (Arran: Easter Vacation) | £90 |
| 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 | 10-day field course (limited to 40 places) (Juniper Hall: Long Vacation prior to course) | £100 |
| OR | |||
| 10-day field course in Molecular Ecology (limited to 10 places) (Madingley, Cambridge: Long Vacation just before start of Michaelmas Term) | £100 | ||
| Part IB Earth Sciences A and B | |||
| H | essential | Ten-day mapping course (Cumbria: Long Vacation before course) | £100 |
| I | essential | Two-week field course (Dorset/Cornwall: Easter Vacation) | £95 |
| Part IB Plant and Microbial Sciences | |||
| J | non-essential but highly desirable | one-week field course (Portugal: Easter Vacation) | £120 |
| Part II Earth Sciences | |||
| K | essential | Ten-day mapping course (Skye: Long Vacation prior to course | £110 |
| L | essential | Eight-day tectonics field course [same as Q] (Greece: Christmas Vacation) | £150 |
| M | 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 | |||
| N | non-essential | Panama (alternating with Sabah, Borneo) | £500 but funding is available |
| Part III Earth Sciences | |||
| O | essential | Individual project. May involve optional fieldwork costs. | any costs associated with optional fieldwork |
| P | essential | one-week field course (Spain: Easter Vacation) | £130 |
| Part III Physics | |||
| Q | non-essential part of a Major Topic | eight-day tectonics field course [same as M] (Greece: Christmas Vacation) | £150 |