The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2026 - As we discuss in The 2026‑27 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K‑12 Spending Plan , the Governor’s budget appropriates $5.6 billion less for schools and community colleges in 2025‑26 than the estimated minimum guarantee in that year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150

The 2024-25 Budget: College of the Law, San Francisco

Mar 5, 2024 - Altogether, the school expects its core funding to increase $4.5  million (5.6  percent). As Figure  5 shows, on a per ‑student basis, the school ’s core funding increases by approximately $4,100  (5.9  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4875

The 2026-27 Budget: University of California

Feb 26, 2026 - Over the past decade, UC spending on faculty salaries increased by an annual average of 4.4  percent, while spending on nonrepresented staff salaries increased 5.6  percent. As a group, represented employees (including various other staff positions and union ‑represented academic employees) saw their salaries increase by 6.7  percent each year over the last ten years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5143

The 2023-24 Budget: College of the Law, San Francisco

Mar 8, 2023 - As Figure  3 shows, on a per ‑student basis, the school ’s core funding increases by nearly $3,500  (5.6  percent). Figure 3 School ’s Core Funding Increases Notably Ongoing Core Funds (Dollars in Millions, Except Per ‑Student Amounts) 2021 ‑22 Actual
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4732

The 2025-26 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 6, 2025 - Looking at the budget plan for the universities over the next three years, state support would remain volatile, with annual ongoing General Fund increases as high as 12  percent (if state funding permitted) and annual declines as deep as 5.6  percent (or potentially deeper depending on the state ’s budget condition).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4957

UC Merced at 20: Campus Developments and Key State-Level Takeaways

Nov 7, 2024 - For students graduating in 2019, 2020, and 2021, time ‑to ‑doctorate at UC Merced averaged 5.6 years compared to 6.1 for the other UC campuses. Student Outcomes Likely Are Worse Due to Student and Institutional Factors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4937

The 2023-24 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 16, 2022 - Increases in the guarantee become larger after 2023 ‑24, with year ‑over ‑year growth of 4.9  percent in 2024 ‑25, 5.6  percent in 2025 ‑26, and 7.9  percent in 2026 ‑27. By 2026 ‑27, the guarantee would be $129.3  billion, an increase of $22.6  billion (21.1  percent) compared with the revised 2022 ‑23 level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4648