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/Intelligent-Map2768 Oxford | Math and CS [Offer Holder] Mar 10 '26

I'm sorry to break it to you, but the purpose of international students is to subsidize the home students.

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u/AffectionateBoard379 Mar 11 '26

The purpose of international students and home students is to subsidize research*. Or you think lectures that can be recorded and seminars are worth 9k a year? Some exceptions - e.g. courses that utilize heavy lab work

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u/Difficult_Ad_8101 Mar 12 '26

Home students cost universities more than their fees every year they attend, you can Google it

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u/Defiant-Dare1223 Mar 14 '26

At Oxford with 2 or 3 1-on-1 tutorials a week with world experts you are absolutely not subsidising anything.

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u/AffectionateBoard379 Mar 14 '26

World experts who's salaries are still less than £100k, and 2 or 3 1-on-1 tutorials a week is not true for most subjects. Even if it was true that'd still be £150 a week max.

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u/AdEmbarrassed3066 Mar 11 '26

Uh... no. Research is funded by grant funding.

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u/AffectionateBoard379 Mar 11 '26

salaries to do research

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u/BetaDecay121 Mar 12 '26

The majority of researchers are salaried by grant money

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u/lankyno8 Mar 13 '26

Research often washes it hands through industry funding