Ohio State University is ending eight academic programs and trying to combine others to comply with Ohio's sweeping higher education reform bill .

The university will "deactivate" its majors in integrated mathematics and English, medieval and renaissance studies, music theory, musicology, biochemical sciences and landscape horticulture, as well as two programs in sustainable agriculture.

The list of majors that are being scrapped appears in a report that members of the university's Academic Affairs and Student Life Committee approved last week. A document from the meeting notes that OSU identified the programs during the summer, and their removal has already been accepted by the state.

The Advance Ohio Higher Education Act , which went into effect in June, requires state institutes

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