UCSD brace for a possible $ 500 million in annual cuts, shelves certain construction plans – San Diego Union -Tribune

The UC San Diego is in much deeper financial problems than it had revealed previously and could face half a billion dollars of annual budget cuts, he said in a new forecast.

Chancellor Pradeep Khosla revealed the situation in a public statement published on Tuesday evening, adding that UC San Diego may have to reduce his budget by $ 9 billion up to 12.5%.

Reductions on this scale would seriously harm teaching and research and threaten jobs in the county’s second employer, and could end one of the longest and most important university extensions in the country.

Khosla had already declared in February that the UC San Diego expected to lose $ 150 million in funding which she expected to receive NIH to help pay research costs in research,, More in the face of a budgetary drop of $ 50 million.

But the size of the worst case has more than doubled in the risk analysis that the university has finished this week.

Consequently, the UC San Diego has resumed the construction of two large planned research buildings indefinitely, one on the main campus of the Jolla and the other at its Hillcrest hospital. Their joint cost: approximately $ 565 million.

The University will continue to build the Triton Center, a complex of $ 428 million with four buildings that will become the new UC San Diego social center, the school said in a separate statement.

Khosla also said that a number of workers could lose their jobs due to the combination of budget cuts, canceled subsidies and cuts to the funding of Medicaid. The school has not indicated whether a significant number of people have already been released.

“Budgetary modeling includes potential cuts to UC San Diego Health, including Medicaid / Medicare reimbursements,” UC San Diego said in a separate declaration on Wednesday evening at the San Diego Union.

A school spokesperson said Khosla was not available for an interview. It was the fifth request of this type that the Union-Tribune made since early February.

In his Tuesday declaration, Khosla noted that the university had been informed of the disruptions to around fifty research subsidies in the past month but did not know.

Several teachers have told the Union-Tribune that the National Institutes of Health had stopped and limited numerous clinical studies, largely in health and medicine, and in particular in research on infectious diseases.

The Trump administration ordered the NIH to go beyond the reduction in the costs of general costs to surgically cancel research contracts in the country’s schools.

Khosla mixed these problems with its risk analysis, determining that the university could lose $ 75 million to more than $ 500 million per year in various types of funding.

“In a landscape of climbing financial pressures, increased test, change in policies, rising costs and exceptional uncertainty on future funding for national research universities, it is essential that we should have agile and proactive,” he said in the press release.

He told his staff to model budget cuts ranging from 2.5% to 12.5%, cuts that could deeply affect university hospitals and medical clinics.

Khosla also said that subsidy discounts could lead to temporary layoffs.

Nor has it come into detail how cuts could affect more than 44,000 UC San Diego students, who fear that cuts will notify larger classes, shorter library hours and fewer teaching assistants, especially in popular engineering programs.

And last month, the University said that it no longer guarantees complete funding for first -year graduate students who are part this fall.

“For the moment, we are not expecting an impact on registration in the first cycle, and no letter of admission to graduates has been withdrawn or added to the waiting list,” UC San Diego told the Union-Tribune on Wednesday evening.

The potential sections of the Congress in Medicaid have become a major concern. The program, jointly funded by the States and the federal government, offers health coverage for low -income and disabled people.

“If we end up losing $ 100 million a year of reimbursement (Medicaid), you know, we have to change part of our strategy,” said Patty Mayent, CEO San Diego Health last month.

“If we did not have the level of demand that we have currently, I might be less aggressive – but because we do it, we must continue to find ways to serve patients.”

The writer Paul Sisson contributed to this report.

Originally published: April 2, 2025 at 6:49 p.m.