US EditionPenn 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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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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