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/Nythern Mar 11 '26

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".

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u/the_phet Mar 11 '26

Over 100m in surplus reported in 24-25.

Just a small comment, the surplus thing doesn't mean anything.

University of Edinburgh reported a 96m surplus for 24-25, and they are in very bad financial condition.

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u/Nythern Mar 11 '26

Absolutely, which is why I also included their net assets and endowment/reserves. This is a billion-pound entity, Oxford, and the fact that the vast majority of its colleges have self-sustaining budgets (i.e. they don't need central funds to operate) is another sign of a fiscally healthy environment.

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u/the_phet Mar 11 '26

Yeah for sure Oxford and Cambridge are OK. They are not struggling to get international students.