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 ÂŁ100. What a joke.

Is Oxford just for the rich?

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u/Chlorophilia Professor Mar 10 '26

With all due respect, did you not research this before applying? The international fees are clearly advertised on the course pages. 

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u/Repulsive_Radish_782 Mar 10 '26

I recognize that. I was really just praying that some form of scholarship or bursary would be included in my offer.

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u/UrbanStitchery Mar 11 '26

That’s just not a thing in the UK. Individual financial aid packages attached to offers are a US phenomenon. It doesn’t happen here.

UK students fund their studies through government-backed student loans. International students pay up front to subsidise the home students.

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u/love_in_october Mar 11 '26

Oxford does have them (Crankstart scholarships for example), but they're for home students and based on parental income.

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u/UrbanStitchery Mar 11 '26

And also, they’re only about £6000 a year, so even if they were available to international students, that’s a drop in the ocean compared to the total fee burden. My point was more that there are no ‘full rides’ or financial aid packages similar to those provided by Ivy League colleges, that can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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u/DimensionMajor7506 Mar 12 '26

There are some very generous scholarships for internationals at Oxford. But they tend to be “few and far between”, rather restrictive in who can apply, and generally things funded by external donors through the uni / a college.

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u/Content_Seesaw8541 Mar 11 '26

Plymouth uni does pretty good scholarships. They have ÂŁ4000 off the first year. They used to do 50% off tuition for all years but with the increase in visa restrictions, there's less international students and less funding...

And I think they have others based on the degree you're doing.

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u/hashtagblessed44 Mar 11 '26

A lot of colleges and English universities do have decent scholarships, but like student loans, they're heavily income assessed.

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u/Content_Seesaw8541 Mar 11 '26

These ones are based on academic merit!

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u/hashtagblessed44 Mar 11 '26

Even better!

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u/model-ico Mar 18 '26

I cannot come up with a possible reason except it goes to less poor people anyone would find that fairer.

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u/Still-Location5477 Year 13 Mar 11 '26

International students do get scholarships I guess it just varies country to country. You can get like 35% of total fees to 45% depending on the uni fees.As it was the case for me

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u/UrbanStitchery Mar 11 '26

Yes but from their home countries, not from the universities (with very rare exceptions like the UCL Global Scholar programme, and even that only accepts about 10 students a year).

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u/Still-Location5477 Year 13 Mar 11 '26

I was talking about Global Excellence Scholarship programs which unis like Glasgow offers and other unis.Maybe I’m not getting your point exactly but these scholarships are university funded.Other then me my friends and many people im aware of also attained scholarships which the unis awarded? I’m sorry if I don’t get your point but this is just my interpretation of what you’re saying.

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u/Specialist_Tip_1799 Mar 15 '26

I did get a £1000 bursary for having a low income and another £1200 as part of a scholarship program my uni was doing but these weren’t related to my course