EdBudget Figures
July 2026
Financial Aid
Middle Class Scholarship Program
Key Information by Segment
| 2024-25 Actual | 2025-26 Revised | 2026-27 Enacted | Change From 2025-26 | ||
| Amount | Percent | ||||
| Recipients | |||||
| CSU | 250,587 | 223,295 | 234,460 | 11,165 | 5% |
| UC | 101,848 | 103,121 | 108,277 | 5,156 | 5 |
| CCCa | 117 | 172 | 181 | 9 | 5 |
| Total | 352,552 | 326,588 | 342,917 | 16,329 | 5% |
| Spending (Dollars in Millions) | |||||
| CSU | $711 | $641 | $461 | -$179 | -28% |
| UC | 298 | 318 | 229 | -89 | -28 |
| CCCa | 1 | 1 | 1 | —b | -28 |
| Total | $1,009 | $959 | $691 | -$268 | -28% |
| Average Award | |||||
| CSU | $2,836 | $2,869 | $1,967 | -$902 | -31% |
| UC | 2,926 | 3,079 | 2,111 | -968 | -31 |
| CCCa | 5,255 | 4,971 | 3,409 | -1,562 | -31 |
| Note: The 2025-26 Budget Act set award coverage at 35 percent. The 2026-27 Budget Act sets award coverage at 23 percent. Table shows program costs in the year they occur. Beginning in 2025-26, the state began funding the program in arrears, such that it appropriated funding for 2025-26 costs in 2026-27 and will appropriate funding for 2026-27 costs in 2027-28. | |||||
| a In addition to undergraduate students at UC and CSU, CCC students in bachelor's degree programs are eligible for Middle Class Scholarships. | |||||
| b Less than $500,000. | |||||