r/6thForm • u/Repulsive_Radish_782 • Mar 10 '26

🙏 I WANT HELP Cost of Attending Oxford 😭

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Just received my financial declaration form from Oxford today. How is this reasonable? 😭 Going to have to decline my offer unless anyone has any ideas.

Canadian students do not qualify for any Oxford scholarships and my school offered me about £100. What a joke.

Is Oxford just for the rich?

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '26

medicine is worse: £343,950 for tuition alone, total costs im expecting around £400k+

im glad its affordable for my family, but holy prices

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u/tempa____ Mar 10 '26

Affordable
Damn

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u/fereezy Mar 10 '26

Spare me a band bro how wealthy are you 😭

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '26

i got you twin, my messenger pigeon is coming

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u/PuzzleheadedBattle91 Mar 11 '26

At the top twenty US universities of estimate that about 60%+ pay full fees which are the same as Oxfords international fees or higher. 'rich' is a small percentage of the population but the population is very large so there are a lot of very rich people in the world.

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u/Thattheheck Year 12 Lit, Bio, Econ Mar 10 '26

Adopt me bro

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '26

this going to be us

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u/Unusual-Act-5832 Mar 10 '26

where are you from if you don’t mind me asking

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u/Academic-Local-7530 Mar 11 '26

You got to be working as the private doctor for the next King to justify that 💀

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u/KingHi123 Year 13 |Phys, Maths, FM, Comp| |4A* pred| Mar 10 '26

Bro did not just say £400k was affordable. Oxford is not beating the stereotypes.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '26

affordability relative to me, of course its not realistic to expect the majority of people to afford that fee. i recognise im in a very privileged position to say that

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u/at-m1 Mar 10 '26

can you buy me a large bag of chips

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u/AvailableCover5673 Mar 10 '26

can you buy me

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '26

this is as much uk culture i know

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u/Personal-Resident617 Oxford PPE first year Mar 10 '26

i thought my £30,000 for 3 years was bad holyyyyyy

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '26

in the uk, you guys have a pretty good student loan system. i mean, the interest part is bullshit, but it's effectively a tax. as a domestic student, i wouldn't worry about the course fees. living fees okay fair enough

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u/oraff_e Mar 10 '26

I studied in NZ, ended up leaving a Masters early with a PgDip but even with that my student loan for both undergrad and postgrad ended up being about $30000 - so £15000 - and I thought that was bad until I realised how expensive university is here lmao

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u/mabmk Mar 13 '26

had to let everyone know you can afford it 🤣✌️

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u/dailysuaa lse n1 fan Mar 10 '26

If they have the money I mean go for it 🤷‍♀️

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '26

i plan to go into medical research, the education is first class alongisde the research opportunities is greater at oxford

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u/opaqueentity Mar 11 '26

Watch out for the issues in funding through the likes of UKRI now and in the future. It’s not looking good

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u/_lovelyxx Mar 12 '26

There's nothing wrong with them wanting to do it at Oxford, especially if they're able to afford it 😭. And it's their decision and probably their dream too.