With Budget Cuts & Tuition Increases, Should UC & CSU Spend $169,000,000 to Subsidize D-I Athletics?
Posted by Chris Nguyen on July 13, 2012
This swimmer isn’t the only thing underwater in NCAA Division I Public Universities
USA Today has a database showing every public NCAA Division I university’s revenue, expenditures, and subsidies on athletics.
Only seven universities had athletic revenue exceed athletic expenditures without a subsidy: Texas, Purdue, Penn State, Oklahoma, Ohio State, Nebraska, and Louisiana State (LSU).
Here’s the size of subsidies received by California’s public NCAA Division I universities:
| UCLA | $2,587,439 |
| Cal State Bakersfield | $5,598,086 |
| Cal State Fullerton | $7,449,705 |
| Fresno State | $8,398,998 |
| Cal State Long Beach | $9,499,251 |
| Cal State Northridge | $9,529,469 |
| UC Berkeley (Cal) | $10,505,850 |
| San Jose State | $11,367,799 |
| UC Santa Barbara | $11,484,580 |
| UC Irvine | $11,833,894 |
| UC Riverside | $11,872,584 |
| Cal State Sacramento | $13,722,863 |
| Cal Poly San Luis Obispo | $16,356,737 |
| San Diego State | $18,140,124 |
| UC Davis | $20,953,181 |
At a time of budget cuts, tuition increases, class reductions, and enrollment reductions, should UC & CSU really be spending this much money to subsidize athletics? Aren’t athletic departments supposed to subsidize the universities, not the other way around?
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