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Kennesaw State University was awarded 130 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is education.
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KSU Georgia landed the #720 spot in College Factual's 2025 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,152 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking.
KSU Georgia also holds the #20 spot on the Best Colleges in Georgia ranking.
The acceptance rate at Kennesaw State University is a competitive 68%, so make sure you take your application seriously when putting it together. Even leaving out a minor detail could be a reason to move you to the rejection pile.
About 65% of students accepted to KSU Georgia submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 520 and 620. Math scores were between 510 and 590.
At Kennesaw State University, the student to faculty ratio is 22 to 1. Compared to the national average of 15 to 1, this is somewhat high. This could mean that class sizes may be larger than they are at other colleges or universities or that professors may be required to teach more classes.
In addition to the student to faculty ratio, some people look at what percentage of faculty members are full-time as a sign of how much time professors will be able to spend with their students. This is because part-time teachers may not be be on campus as much as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at Kennesaw State University is 65%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
Kennesaw State University has a freshmen retention rate of 75%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.
The on-time graduation rate is the percent of first-time, full time students who obtain their bachelor's degree in four years or less. This rate is 18% for first-time, full-time students at KSU Georgia, which is lower than the national rate of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 37,390 undergraduates at KSU Georgia with 27,688 being full-time and 9,702 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $15,610 | $16,241 | $18,784 | $20,890 | $21,123 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of KSU Georgia, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At KSU Georgia, approximately 40% of students took out student loans averaging $6,153 a year. That adds up to $24,612 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for KSU Georgia are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1000 Chastain Rd, Kennesaw, GA 30144 |
| Phone: | 470-578-6000 |
| Website: | www.kennesaw.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 539 | $52,766 |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 507 | $46,077 |
| General Psychology | 448 | $31,450 |
| Computer Information Systems | 417 | $60,736 |
| Nursing | 291 | $80,560 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 279 | $67,158 |
| Computer Science | 276 | $68,763 |
| Accounting | 268 | $57,814 |
| General Biology | 260 | $31,530 |
| Health & Physical Education | 249 | $30,469 |
Online learning options are becoming more and more popular at American colleges and universities. Online classes are great for students who have busy schedules or for those who just want to study on their own time.
In 2022-2023, 26,832 students took at least one online class at Kennesaw State University. This is an increase from the 25,238 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 26,832 | 8,754 |
| 2021-2022 | 25,238 | 8,760 |
| 2020-2021 | 38,860 | 15,280 |
| 2018-2019 | 14,982 | 3,899 |
Learn more about online learning at Kennesaw State University.
Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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