The UW system’s 2023-25 biennial budget is $13.7 billion. About 58 percent of funding comes from tuition and fees, 24 percent comes from the federal government and 18 percent comes from the state.
Evers’ budget includes $856M spending increase for UW
Gov. Tony Evers’ 2025-27 biennial budget proposal includes $856 million for the UW system, the largest increase in state history.
Rothman said the budget increase would bring UW to the middle nationally in funding and provide the system with essential investments to preserve the quality and advance the innovation that Wisconsin expects of the system’s 13 universities.
“We’re not going to have the teachers, the nurses, the engineers and the data scientists that are necessary,” Rothman said. “And it has a real impact on students of lower socioeconomic means, because we don’t have the resources to really make this opportunity available to anyone in Wisconsin who has the passion and has the ability.”
