1100 South Marietta Parkway
Marietta, GA 30060

Southern Polytechnic State University is an accredited, four-year university for students wanting to study and then enter science and technical fields after graduation. Situated on a 230-acre wooded campus in Marietta, Georgia, just 20 minutes from downtown Atlanta, Southern Polytechnic State University offers the best of the natural world within reach of the urban one.

At the end of World War II, veterans were returning to the United States to the beginning of the postwar boom. business and industry were in need of workers who were educated in the latest technology and who could adapt quickly to a new standard of living. Southern Polytechnic State University, founded in 1949 as the Southern technical institute was a result of this growing demand. The school was originally a Two-year school and a division of the Georgia Institute of Technology. By the school's twenty-first anniversary, it had grown and expanded to offer bachelor degrees. As the college continued to grow and expand, its name was changed to the Southern College of Technology and finally, when it attained its university status in 1996, to Southern Polytechnic State University.

Southern Polytechnic State University enrolls over 4,000 students per year. Students may choose from a wide variety of degree programs in five schools: The School of Architecture, Civil engineering Technology and construction, The School of Computing and Software Engineering, The School of Engineering and Technology Management, The School of Arts and Science, Extended University.

Students may choose to live on campus at one of two residence halls: Howell Hall or Norton Hall. They may also choose to live in one of two apartment buildings on campus: University Commons or the University Courtyard. Due to the proximity of both Marietta and Atlanta, there is also a wealth of off-campus living options from which to choose.

Quick Facts:

Students at Southern Polytechnic State University come to the college from more than 30 states and over 80 countries.

Southern Polytechnic State University was one of the first schools in the nation to award the Bachelor of Engineering Technology degree.

The faculty at Southern Polytechnic State University is required to have relevant working or research experience, and all of the classes are taught by professors, not teaching assistants. That experience, combined with small class sizes - averaging 25-30 students - provides a unique learning experience for students.

Southern Polytechnic State University is accredited by five accrediting organizations including The Commission of Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

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