Harrisburg University will shut down its Philadelphia campus on Spring Garden Street at the end of August, enabling the private college to bolster offerings at its main campus in the state capital, the university announced.

The satellite campus at 1500 Spring Garden St. — directly across from the Community College of Philadelphia — opened in 2017 as a branch for degree programs in computer and information science. The university did not immediately provide information on how many students the Philadelphia campus serves.

The university called the pending closure a strategic decision based on a review of resources and the evolving needs of its programs in Harrisburg. The Philadelphia campus will close Aug. 31.

"Consolidating our operations at the main Harrisburg campus allows us to focu

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