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<p>All of Pitt’s regional campuses were founded when Pitt was still private. But you are right, that is not typical.</p>
<p>UPJ has very strong community support. I can’t see it closing.</p>
<p>Pitt-Bradford has the advantage of being on the NY State border, so it has more out-of-state students than the rest, but that is all it has going for it.</p>
<p>The things Pitt’s regionals have going for them (except Titusville which is tiny and only two years) is that they are actually well regarded as schools in their own right. Princeton Review, for instance, gives them good marks and US News has ranked UPJ and UPB in the past. The harsh reality is that most of Penn State’s 19 branches are not well regarded and most have pretty poor admissions stats. There is more hope for Pitt’s campuses than PSU’s, IMO. But I think they’d try to keep their tuition subsidized by the state if they could, because large tuition increases at these will really hurt their admissions numbers, but I don’t know if that will result in shutting down Pitt’s three 4-year regional campuses completely.</p>