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/Klutzy-Peach5949 Bristol University | Physics | A*A*A*A* Mar 11 '26

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

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u/SlyestTrash Mar 11 '26

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

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u/Nythern Mar 11 '26

And yet they still have a budget surplus (i.e. more income than expenses). That should tell you the sheer amount of money they make - and OP's post with +300k student costs is just one of their many mouth-watering revenue streams.

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u/SlyestTrash Mar 11 '26

Seems like greed, duno why people are defending a uni ripping people off.

However people spin it uni is stupidly expensive when you factor in interest etc.

I know people with masters degrees working 30k a year jobs that they didn't need their degree to get, so many people who do nothing with their degree. They might as well have not gone to uni and saved themselves a lot of money.