July 2025

Universities

Changes in University of California General Fund Spending

Reflects July Budget Plan, 2025-26 (In Millions)

2024-25 Revised Spending $4,864.6a
Ongoing Spending  
Base augmentation $125.0b
UC Riverside, California Local Newspaper Project 0.4c
Subtotal ($125.4)
One-Time Spending  
Climate initiatives, reappropriation $42.0
UC Berkeley, Journalism Fellowship Program 15.0
UC San Diego, public health program 5.0
Cal-Bridge program 5.0
UC Davis, Transportation Research Center 4.5
Campus climate and antidiscrimination efforts 3.6
UC Menopause Center 3.0
UC San Diego, ALERTCalifornia program 2.5
UC San Francisco, dentistry pilot program 1.8
First Start Foster Youth Program 1.8
PRIME Central Coast program 1.5
Nutrition Policy Institute 1.3
UC Davis, Firearm Violence Research Center 1.0
UC Los Angeles, social media research 0.8
Subtotal ($88.8)
Other Adjustments  
May/June payment deferral -$129.7d
Removal of 2024-25 one-time funding -6.2
Debt service savings -1.0e
Subtotal (-$136.9)
Total Changes $77.2
2025-26 Enacted Spending $5,072.5
   
a Includes $948,000 in one-time wildfire recovery funding for UC Los Angeles.
b Of this amount, $3.1 million was provided to ANR.
c This program was shifted from the California State Library budget to the UC budget.
d Of this amount, $3.2 million is deferred from ANR.
e The 2023-24 Budget Act contained $50.7 million to cover state debt service costs for eight UC student housing projects (including three intersegmental projects). The 2025-26 budget package approves two additional student housing projects (at the UC Davis and UC Santa Barbara campuses). The 2025-26 budget also recognizes $1 million in savings from debt service costs on the approved projects being lower than initially budgeted.
ANR = Agriculture and Natural Resources. PRIME = Programs in Medical Education.