Kennesaw State University
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | October 9, 1963 |
| Endowment | $36,523,927 |
| President | Samuel S. Olens |
| Provost | W. Ken Harmon |
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Academic staff
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745 |
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Administrative staff
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1,400+ |
| Students | 36,428 |
| Location | Kennesaw, Georgia, U.S. |
| Campus | Suburban, 581 acres (2.35 km2) |
| Colors | Black and Gold |
| Athletics | NCAA Division I – Atlantic Sun Big South |
| Nickname | Owls |
| Mascot | Scrappy the Owl, Sturgis |
| Affiliations | USG |
| Website | www |
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Kennesaw State University (KSU) is a public, coeducational, research university with a main campus located in Kennesaw, Georgia, United States, approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Atlanta. A secondary campus operates in Marietta, Georgia which was the site of the previous Southern Polytechnic State University until 2015. KSU also holds classes at the Cobb Galleria Centre, Dalton State College and Dallas. Current enrollment is over 35,600 students, making it the third largest university in the state of Georgia and one of the top fifty largest universities in the United States.
KSU is part of the University System of Georgia. The university has academic programs in business, education, engineering, nursing, physical sciences, criminal justice and sports management. Both the Kennesaw and Marietta campuses are located in suburban areas on a combined 581 acres (235 ha) of land.
The university has undergone a number of changes in name (and mission) over its relatively short existence.
The university was officially founded by the Georgia Board of Regents approved the establishment of a junior college tentatively to be named Cobb County Junior College. In December 1964, Horace Sturgis was designated to serve as the future college's first president. When the school opened in fall of 1966, it was named Kennesaw Junior College and had an initial enrollment of 216,969 students.
Thirteen years later, in 1976, the former Kennesaw Junior College became a four-year college and was redesignated Kennesaw College.
Betty Siegel became the second president of Kennesaw College in 1981, and the first female university president in the University System of Georgia.
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