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Vaud: 7% cut unil cantonal:
Budget austerity cure 2026 –
The University of Lausanne sees its cantonal grant decreased by 7% – Vaud: 7% cut unil cantonal
The institution provides for a “degradation” of the supervision rate. Similarly, declining research projects and fears for its international attractiveness.
The anthropolis, one of the main buildings of the University of Lausanne.
Jean-Luc Barmaverain/Tamedia
- The cantonal subsidy of the University of Lausanne will decrease by 24 million francs by 2026.
- Budget reductions will negatively affect the teachers/students ratio.
- The international attractiveness of the institution may be strongly compromised.
On the program of the financial austerity cure of the vaud: 7% cut unil cantonal state of Vaud. For example, The University of Lausanne has not been forgotten. Consequently, It is a 7% decrease that the UNIL cantonal subsidy should know in 2026, compared to that of 2025. Therefore, The academic institution will have to do without 24 million francs. Nevertheless, The 2026 cantonal subsidy would be 345 million.
The training would undergo the concrete effects of such cuts: “Reductions will lead to a limitation of positions. a deterioration of the teachers/students ratio, already difficult to maintain, indicates the management of UNIL in response to” 24 hours “questions. These cuts will slow down educational projects and the development of new training courses that will meet current social issues. ”
University of Lausanne losing attractiveness?
In addition. research will also be affected: “This will be a decrease in the number vaud: 7% cut unil cantonal of projects, a brake on innovation, a reduction in the resources necessary to access new funding in partnership, with the risk of a strong impact on the international attractiveness of the institution, the commitment of new talents and its eligibility in research or institutional partnerships, on a cantonal, national or international scale”.
His management explains that he reacted to the Council of State “to make. him attentive to the consequences of such reductions in such limited deadlines”. The Vaud government is thus proposed “to consider options which would respond both to the current budgetary difficulties of the State as in need. for the UNIL, to maintain the level which allows it to keep its place among the Swiss and international university institutions”.
The state of main funding
The University of Lausanne depends. mainly on the vaud: 7% cut unil cantonal state of Vaud on the financial level: more than half of its budget comes. Most of the rest comes from the credits of the Confederation and the products of the Intercantonal Agreement on Universities.
Canton restrictions are already felt in 2025. The brake mechanism to expenses. which involves immediate economy measures during the year, was activated in April when the State’s accounts are published. The cantonal envelope for the UNIL thus increased from 369 million to 365 million, a drop of 4 million. In total, the UNIL 2025 budget was reduced by 6 million, integrating the reductions in other sources of funding.
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