Kennesaw State University Marietta Campus

I attended this school in 2018, and overall, my academic experience was excellent. The professors were knowledgeable and supportive, and the education was of high quality. However, I had a deeply concerning experience with the campus police. During my time there, I both witnessed and personally faced racial profiling by school officers who frequently targeted students of color, often questioning their enrollment status without valid reason. If you are a student of color planning to attend the Marietta campus, be aware that you are likely to be profiled by campus police

That’s beyond crazy. 5 to 6 weeks turnaround for an online diploma copy. KSU needs to do better

The material is there, but some of the professors cannot get the material across to students very well. I had to switch one class from in person to online due to not being able to understand what the assistant professor was saying. This was because of her harsh accent and sadly her english wasn't great either. I hope that it improves shortly. The lack of staff is also very visible. Multiple classes are not given because they simply do not have the instructor for it. This limits people in their options significantly, which is really unfair to students. Each semester you would have a stipend of around 12.000 dollars, but I honestly don't see where it all goes.

It's a good campus, pretty open and mellow

The Marietta Campus of KSU has gone downhill since the merge of SPSU with KSU. The administration and management is awful, so even if you want to jump through the extra hoops they made up to be pretentious, it is no easy task to get that parking permit or sign up for everything on time. Most colleges design their curriculums to keep the students paying for as long as possible, but KSU takes it to a different level. As other recent reviewers have mentioned, their acceptance of transfer credits is abysmal, particularly in science. It would be one thing to not accept credits from some low-quality no-name school, but KSU will evaluate credits from other top USG (University System of Georgia) schools and just structure their programs in ways to reduce an 80+ credit transcript down to under 50 credits applied. That's an entire extra year of classes if anyone's counting. A lot of KSU's issues do come from the Board of Regents, in fairness, but its own management seems intent on making it worse faster, less organized, and harder to succeed with; compared to other schools in the USG trying to make it easier despite the Regents' policies. In summary- Signing up is a nightmare, far more than a normal college and anyone who has done it know it's already a pain. After the administrative side is temporarily handled, good luck getting classes; most of the SPSU professors resigned after their current students graduated. If you're transferring, be ready to throw away half of your existing credits; despite being a "proud transfer school" the only way I could recommend going to KSU at all would be from start to finish to avoid wasting a huge amount of time. Believe it or not, I was extremely excited to be an Owl a few years ago, but KSU's poor management of literally everything disillusioned me and instead I'll be graduating from North Georgia

Wife did travel to Germany, said we would get refund. I'm disabled , on paineds etc for pretez. It's been over 4 months now and no money I'm starving haven't been able to fill my meds I'm not eating to make sure the kids have food and am probably having to go to hospital today

Beautiful campus, has really grown since my husband attended there. Think it was just the business building and a couple other building over 20 yrs ago. Great education for Bachelor and Master's degrees. My daughter attended school there and she loved it living on campus, and involvement in Christian studies. The gardens are very pretty, my daughter would put up her hammock in the trees, no bother just peace.

I wasted $100 on orientation + transcript submission fees only to feel screwed over. I’m a post baccalaureate student and yet so few of my transfer credits were accepted— for example, I’ve taken anatomy and physiology with a lab, but somehow that doesn’t fulfill the “second science” requirement. I was left with several general requirements to fulfill that had nothing to do with my intended major. I paid for the non-refundable orientation ($75), and it was virtual, which was nice, but it felt really pointless… all of the information could’ve been dispersed via email. Then, during orientation, my advisor said several times how “bare bones” class registration was, and when I looked, sure enough- the classes I needed to take this semester nearly all had waitlists. So, why was there an orientation scheduled so late if the 500 students and I there were still supposed to register for unavailable classes? As an aside: Off-campus students were *highly encouraged* to buy a meal plan, which I knew was just an advertisement but still made me feel cynical. Meal plans are so expensive, and buying groceries is the more practical option… It just made me feel like they really don’t have students’ best interests in mind, yet there was so much stuff about “owl pride!” & whatnot. I quickly realized what a waste of my time and money this was/would be, and decided to drop KSU altogether and pursue other schools.

The school itself is great. The professors are extremely knowledgeable, and the courses offered are much more practical than if you went to Tech (SPSU has always prided itself for being a more project-oriented school, whereas Tech is more for theoretics). However, this school is well-known for having some of the worst non-educational departments. The administration is lousy (they'll redirect you somewhere about 3 times before they send you to the right place), the people working the financial aid are incompetent morons (it took me about 4 hours one day to try to get an answer from them which they didn't even know, and they made it very clear by their rudeness how much I was inconveniencing them, though these types of mouth-breathers are pretty prominent in the Atlanta area/south in general). The police force on the school are sometimes very invasive, and sometimes completely unaware of what's happening (It took them 2 days to get rid of a few students throwing a football around in a full parking lot). However, and I find this the most important, when I lived on campus, it took approximately 9 months for a certain Tara Adams to replace the carpets in my apartment, something I was promised upon move-in. She constantly pushed back my "re-evaluation" date after I told her the carpets were disgusting, and in too horrible condition to justify the 9 grand I'm paying annually. It wasn't until it became a noticeable health issue that I brought this to the Director, Chris Bruno, who made the carpet replacement happen the very next week. Another big issue was when I made multiple complains to the office (at least 4 or 5) that my EXTREMELY OBNOXIOUS roommate was staying up late at night shrieking like a 13 year-old at other people in his multiplayer games, which was always extremely profane and went on anywhere from 5PM to about 3AM. I have multiple records I presented to them as well. Nothing ever happened, and apparently, he has been through 3 roommates in 3 years, and has seniority in the room. Much of the staff needs to be fired and replaced with people who give a damn, as the housing department does not need to be run by someone like Tara. Nor should we be forced to use the financial aid department who did not know what a 529 account was. The only reason I'm rating this so high is because I think the education here is much more important than pedantic inconveniences with this school's award-winning staff.

As a graduate student that went through 1 year of bachelor in this college, I will say three things: - The tuition is affordable and they really want international students to feel included and this for the best. - The variety of people and genders makes it a really interesting place on the cultural side - The end result is not the best as the tuition might be higher than the one of Georgia Tech but the net salary after completion of the degree is way lower. It is a fair experience overall and I am a really critical person but more can be done to make this college better.