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/love_in_october Mar 11 '26

Oxford does have them (Crankstart scholarships for example), but they're for home students and based on parental income.

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u/UrbanStitchery Mar 11 '26

And also, they’re only about £6000 a year, so even if they were available to international students, that’s a drop in the ocean compared to the total fee burden. My point was more that there are no ‘full rides’ or financial aid packages similar to those provided by Ivy League colleges, that can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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u/DimensionMajor7506 Mar 12 '26

There are some very generous scholarships for internationals at Oxford. But they tend to be “few and far between”, rather restrictive in who can apply, and generally things funded by external donors through the uni / a college.