The “pearls” of the education budget
Within the budget project in the area of Public Education, the Sheinbaum government plans to allocate 450,887.9 million pesos, 1.5% less in real terms than the budget that was had for 2024 and which was 457,685.2 million pesos.
Among the first effects detected by this budget reduction to higher education, where a cut of 10,268 million pesos was detected, mainly affecting the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the National Polytechnic Institute (INP) as well as the University Metropolitan Autonomous Region (UAM). However, just a few hours after the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SCHP) delivered the draft federal budget, the same agency corrected what it said was a “regrettable error,” later ensuring that both educational institutions will have a increase compared to the previous year of 3.5%.
The draft expenditure budget for 2025 initially presented to Congress contemplated that UNAM would receive 49,108.4 million pesos for 2025, while in 2024 it was 54,268.4 million pesos, a real reduction of 9.5%.
The Coordinating Body of the Benito Juárez García Universities for Wellbeing – created in the last six-year term – will practically double its resources in 2025, going from 1,562.6 million pesos to 3,014.9 million pesos.
While in the case of the new Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation, it is projected that 33,295.9 million pesos will be allocated to it, a budget similar to that of the National Council of Humanities, Sciences and Technologies (Conahcyt) in 2024, which was of 33,170.7 million pesos.
While the National Commission for Physical Culture and Sports will have 2,633 million pesos in 2025, while in 2024, its budget was 2,648 million pesos, a similar budget despite the fact that next year there will not be competitions as important as the Paris Olympic Games. .
