I wonder if Penn State has too many branch campuses that need to be looked at. Seems although they had 25,000 more applications overall the overall enrollment declined. With the other PA state system having enrollment issue could Penn State merge some of their branch campuses?
Closing or merging branch campuses is as much political as it is economical. When politics is involved, the reasonable & logical solution becomes cloudy & muddled.
Where does it say in that link that the enrollment was down at the commonwealth campuses?
2019-2020 Common Data Set, FYI…