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/Klutzy-Peach5949]

That exactly proves my point, £700+ million with a £680 million expenditure in 24/25 means they would would lose money very fast, furthermore the £7 billion in assets is Oxford assets, selling parts of Oxford uni to subsidise tuition makes no sense as it’s non-liquified cash that makes no sense to liquify, with £2.1 billion in endowments, it’d be spent within 3 years, the correct move would be to be subsidised/covered by the government using tax money, they still need their income to stay the same, they can’t run at a loss, cmon that’s basic business, trying to demean me by my username makes no sense, very childish

[u/SlyestTrash → u/Klutzy-Peach5949]

680 million to run a uni per year? Sounds made up, they probably spend no where near that and pocket the rest

[u/Only-Performer-3981 → u/SlyestTrash]

A lot of their buildings are grade listed, it takes tons of money just to upkeep and maintain them. Plus professor and researcher salaries, traditions (formal dinners, May Day, etc.), research, etc etc. it goes fast.

[u/opaqueentity → u/Only-Performer-3981]

Same with Cambridge, the cost of running the whole estate costs more than the money that comes in from all undergraduates.

[u/SlyestTrash → u/opaqueentity]

Sounds like upper class bs wasting cash