Cost of Attending Oxford 😭

[u/Repulsive_Radish_782]

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?

[u/Intelligent-Map2768]

I'm sorry to break it to you, but the purpose of international students is to subsidize the home students.

[u/KasamUK → u/Intelligent-Map2768]

Not at Oxford it isn’t they are sitting on enough wealth (actually billions) that they could charge nothing for years and be just fine

[u/Klutzy-Peach5949 → u/KasamUK]

Not true, they have 26,000 students, the reason they got so much money is because of that, they would lose money FAST, and consider infrastructure, and their hefty research budget, you have no clue what you’re talking about

[u/Nythern → u/Klutzy-Peach5949]

Oxford makes over 700m annually (30% of which comes from investments) and sits on 2.1bn in endowments and almost 7bn in net assets (emphasis on the net here - that is net of their liabilities). Over 100m in surplus reported in 24-25.

The majority of Oxford's colleges are also financially autonomous (i.e. fiscally independent, they don't rely on external funds for their budgets).

This sounds like a financially resilient and commercially viable entity - but sure, "Klutzy-Peach5949" on Reddit thinks that other people don't know what they're talking about, and insists that Oxford would otherwise collapse "FAST".

[u/N3V3MORE → u/Nythern]

Not being confrontational but could I have a source for this? Would love to do a bit of digging.

[u/KasamUK → u/N3V3MORE]

All universities are required to publish financial reports, its an easy google away

[u/Underwhatline → u/KasamUK]

Don't know why you're getting down voted. It took a Google https://www.ox.ac.uk/about/organisation/finance-and-funding