Penn State president announces that some campuses will close. Which are at risk?

The Pennsylvania State University will close some of its 19 branch campuses.

University President Neeli Bendapudi announced Tuesday that the university is looking at a dozen campuses to decide which will close.

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Not all of the campuses under scrutiny will close. “While it is clear that not all 12 campuses can continue, it is equally clear that a number of them will,” she said.

Bendapudi cited declining enrollments, declining populations and financial pressures as the reasons for the “difficult choices” ahead.

“Across higher education, institutions are grappling with similar headwinds, and we have reached a moment where doing nothing is no longer an option,” she said.

The 12 campuses

The campuses under review are

Campuses that will remain open

The university’s seven largest campuses will remain open. They are

Nearly 75% of Penn State’s enrollment attend those campuses, served by 67% of the university’s faculty and staff.

The Great Valley campus focused on graduate education will also remain open, along with Penn State Dickinson Law in Carlisle, the College of Medicine in Hershey, and the Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport.

The timeline

No campus will close before the end of the 2026-27 academic year, Bendapudi said in her announcement.

The university will continue admitting students at all campuses this coming fall.

And every student who begins a Penn State degree will have the opportunity to complete it at the university, if not at the same campus, Bendapudi said.

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Contact Valerie Myers at vmyers@timesnews.com.

This article originally appeared on Erie Times-News: Some Penn State campuses will close. Here are the 12 at risk