Argentina's Supreme Court upholds university financing law

On 26 June, the Argentine Supreme Court reaffirmed the precautionary measure that obliges the national government to apply Law 27.795, the University Financing Law. The three justices – Horacio Rosatti, Carlos Rosenkrantz and Ricardo Lorenzetti – rejected the executive's appeal because the petition was not directed against a definitive judgment, leaving in place the lower‑court orders that require immediate salary increases for university teaching and non‑teaching staff and the recomposition of student scholarship programmes.

The ruling does not settle the substantive dispute over decree 759/2025, which the government used to try to suspend parts of the law, nor does it address the broader budgetary question. The law sets a minimum university funding of 0.75 % of GDP, higher than the 0.6 % the Milei administration had been aiming for. The government had already signed an agreement on 10 June to raise salaries by 24.33 % and increase operating funds and university hospital budgets, amounting to an estimated cost of 1.3 trillion pesos.

The decision is seen as a setback for the Milei administration’s fiscal plan and a boost for the university sector, which has celebrated the judgment and warned that full compliance is still needed to avoid further deterioration of salaries and scholarships.