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Following in the footsteps of the University of Chicago, Penn State decided it will not continue to host a Confucius Institute for Chinese studies after Dec. 2014. The controversial program will close due to differing goals between Penn State's College of Liberal Arts and the Hanban, an affiliate of the Chinese Ministry of Education and division that oversees the institute.

Times Higher Education's World University Rankings, widely considered the most thorough college ranking in the world, released their latest list last week. Taking 13 different categories into account, Penn State came in at No. 58 on the list of 400.