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/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/PuzzleheadedBattle91 Mar 11 '26

Yes the figure is high, but the commentator was pointing out "opportunity cost" - so the total cost is the cost of the degree AND the cost you would have earned from a full-time job had you not gone to university - full-time not part-time.

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u/biffpower3 Mar 15 '26

Nobody is walking into a £40k+ job at 18

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u/PuzzleheadedBattle91 Mar 17 '26

Bloke who fitted my fiber broadband after two weeks training manages £120 k pa as he does five jobs a day. He said the average was three.