About Southern Polytechnic State University

Southern Polytechnic State University (also called Southern Poly; abbreviated SPSU) was a public, co-educational, state academe in Marietta, Georgia, United States nearly 20 miles (32 km) northwest of downtown Atlanta. Until 2015, it was an independent part of the University System of Georgia and called itself “Georgia’s Technology University.”

Southern Tech was standard in 1948 as The Technical Institute in Chamblee, Georgia by Blake R Van Leer. The first classes were held behind 116 students. It was renamed the Southern Technical Institute in 1949 and moved to its present campus in Marietta, Georgia in 1962. It went through substitute name amend in 1987 and became the Southern College of Technology. In the summer of 1996, the academe adopted its polytechnic name. It was one in the midst of a little group of polytechnic universities in the United States that tend to be primarily devoted to the opinion of rarefied arts and applied sciences.

On November 1, 2013, plans were announced by the Georgia Board of Regents for Southern Polytechnic and Kennesaw State University to be consolidated into one university. On January 6, 2015, the Georgia Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia approved the consolidation of Southern Poly and Kennesaw State, with Kennesaw State as the remaining institution. On July 1, 2015, Kennesaw State received the Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering and Engineering Technology in honor of the former SPSU.

Marietta is located in central Cobb County, Georgia, United States, and is the county’s seat and largest city.

At the 2010 census, the city had a population of 56,579. The 2019 estimate was 60,867, making it one of Atlanta’s largest suburbs. Marietta is the fourth largest of the principal cities by population of the Atlanta metropolitan area.