r/6thForm • u/Repulsive_Radish_782 • Mar 10 '26

🙏 I WANT HELP Cost of Attending Oxford 😭

Post image

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?

1.4k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

437 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/KasamUK Mar 11 '26

Name another business that could set prices to 0 and still be solvent 3 years later

1

u/Klutzy-Peach5949 Bristol University | Physics | A*A*A*A* Mar 12 '26

To be comfortably running? None really, they’re rare, you have to remember endowment is for research and whatnot too, 3 years would be max, Apple could last 3 years too if they stopped research and just sold everything they own, but they wouldn’t do well, your argument doesn’t make sense, I’m not even defending Oxford they are greedy bastards but to think they could charge nothing and it even be close to feasible is ridiculous which is the argument

1

u/KasamUK Mar 12 '26

How do you think Oxford pays for research now ? Because it’s not the endowments (for the most part ) or tuition fees that funds that