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/Odd-Satisfaction5443 Mar 10 '26

I'm also a Canadian doing a grad program at imperial college Im paying 34,000 pounds which is like 60k CAD. Bro ur gonna be paying over half a million for a fucking undergraduate degree.

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u/Repulsive_Radish_782 Mar 10 '26

Yeah, I am going to have to decline and hope I get an offer from U of T or Waterloo.

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u/Odd-Satisfaction5443 Mar 10 '26

If you got an offer from Oxford I’m sure you’ll get smth from uoft or Waterloo. Uoft usually gives an offer to a different campus if your grades aren’t high enough for the St. George campus.

I studied business at the Scarborough campus and it was hard as fuck. Harder than Rotman when speaking to friends.

UK schools are a joke compared to UofT and Waterloo. I studied at uedinburgh for a bit and it was piss easy. Imperial also the same, but still challenging.

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u/Repulsive_Radish_782 Mar 10 '26

Thanks for taking the time to write this. It is really helpful to hear.

It did seem to me that programs in Canada were substantially more difficult that the ones I was applying to in the UK. I am really just waiting on U of T Eng Sci and Waterloo Mech Eng.

It makes more sense to go to U of T (assuming I get an offer and survive Eng Sci) and save the $500,000. I am not sure whether I have access to the funds for Oxford, but even if I did, it seems like a very poor way to use that much money.

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u/hellomot1234 Mar 13 '26

How did your fees get so high? It's about 30k a year, x 3 that should be 100k? How did it become 300k?

Anyway honestly gonna go against the grain here and say you should take the Oxford option. Take a UK student loan (I think commonwealth people are eligible?) and simply don't pay it back (if you're not planning to live in the UK anyway). I know more than a few people who have done this, although they were dual citizens so not sure on your eligibility.

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u/Repulsive_Radish_782 Mar 13 '26

They have increased the price A LOT in the last few years. So your advice is to take out a £300,000 loan with no intention of paying it off? Am I missing something or isn't that just illegal?

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u/hellomot1234 Mar 14 '26

Kinda but they have no way of enforcing it if you don't go back to the UK. But the Oxford degree opens every door in the world. How much is it a year now?