It has become clear that we cannot sustain a viable Commonwealth Campus ecosystem without closing some campuses,” Neeli Bendapudi said in a statement to the campus community Tuesday.

Penn State's president Neeli Bendapudi said the closures come as the university faces financial pressure and declining enrollment.

Penn State University says it must close a number of its branch campuses across the commonwealth, but it won’t know which ones will close until the end of the current semester.