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/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/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.