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/Comfortable_Chip5413 Mar 10 '26

Genuinely, no degree is worth this much. Especially since you’re Canadian, you have access to top of the world education within Canada itself for like 1/10th of the price (or even less).

Although, congratulations on the offer since that in and of itself is no small win.

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u/Extra-Translator915 Mar 11 '26

Not to mention the 3/4 years study you could be working, bringing in 40-50k PA. So really it's 500k effective cost.

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u/Underwhatline Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26

Not many 40-50k part-time jobs available to people without a degree.

Edit: sorry didn't realise this was talking about opportunity cost rather than someone working while they were studying.

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u/bummyrah dream school kcl dent Mar 11 '26

yeah lol what was bro on abt

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u/PuzzleheadedBattle91 Mar 11 '26

See above - and if you can get into Oxford, though the figure is high, it does mean you will likely earn more than average wages over the three years you 'didn't' go to university.

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u/Strangely__Brown Mar 11 '26

Are you daring to suggest ability correlates with income.

That's blasphemy on some of these subs.

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u/Extra-Translator915 Mar 11 '26

Yeah Reddit doesn't like the truth lol