Penn State made deep cuts to engineering, graduate school amid budget woes
- Penn State has made significant budget cuts to its graduate school and engineering budgets due to a multimillion-dollar deficit, as stated in a recent analysis.
- The College of Engineering's budget is expected to drop by 12.4%, amounting to a $20 million decrease.
- The graduate school's budget has decreased by 46.5%, a loss of $9 million, and the Schreyer Honors College budget has also dropped by 54.1%.
- Efforts to cut the budget deficit began in summer 2022 to establish a sustainable future for the university.
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Penn State made deep cuts to engineering, graduate school amid budget woes
Since Penn State announced its multimillion-dollar budget deficit in 2022, the university has deeply cut the budgets to its graduate school and engineering college, a Spotlight PA analysis found.
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Penn State Made Deep Cuts to Engineering, Graduate School Amid Budget Woes
This story was produced by the State College regional bureau of Spotlight PA, an independent, nonpartisan newsroom dedicated to investigative and public-service journalism for Pennsylvania. Sign up for Talk of the Town, a weekly newsletter of local stories that dig deep, events and more from north-central PA, at spotlightpa.org/newsletters/talkofthetown. Since Penn State announced its multimillion-dollar budget deficit in summer 2022, the univer…
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