Whois & Analysis for kennesaw.edu

The University System of Georgia (USG) is the organizational body that includes 28 public institutions of higher learning in the U.S. state of Georgia.

The System is governed by the Georgia Board of Regents.

It sets goals and dictates general policy to educational institutions as well as administering Public Library Service of the state which includes 58 public library systems.

The USG also dispenses public funds (allocated by the state's legislature) to the institutions but not the lottery-funded HOPE Scholarship.

The USG is the fifth largest university system in the United States by total student enrollment, with 318,027 students in 28 public institutions.

The four larger systems are the University System of Ohio, City University of New York, California State University, and the State University of New York.

USG institutions are divided into four categories depending on their mission statements.

The categories include research universities, state universities, state colleges and regional universities.

Kennesaw State University (KSU) is a public, coeducational, research university with a main campus located in Kennesaw, Georgia, United States, approximately 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.

Metro Atlanta, designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area, is the most populous metro area in the US state of Georgia and the ninth-largest metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the United States.

Its economic, cultural and demographic center is Atlanta, and it had a 2015 estimated population of 5.7 million people according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

The metro area forms the core of a broader trading area, the Atlanta–Athens-Clarke–Sandy Springs Combined Statistical Area.

The Combined Statistical Area spans up to 39 counties in north Georgia and had an estimated 2015 population of 6.3 million people.

Atlanta is considered an "alpha() world city".

It is the third largest metropolitan region in the Census Bureau's Southeast region behind Greater Washington and South Florida.

The University of Georgia, founded in 1785, also referred to as UGA or simply Georgia, is an American public Land-grant, Regional Sun Grant, National Sea Grant, and National Space Grant research university.

Its primary location is a campus adjacent to the college town of Athens, Georgia, approximately an hour's drive from the global city of Atlanta.

It is a flagship university that is ranked tied for 18th overall among all public national universities in the 2017 U.S. News & World Report rankings, and a Kiplinger's and Princeton Review top ten in value.

The university is classified in the highest ranking, " " with the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education classifying the student body as "More Selective," its most selective admissions category.

The university has been labeled one of the "Public Ivies," a publicly funded university considered to provide a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League.

Undergraduate education is the post-secondary education previous to the postgraduate education.

It includes all the academic programs up to the level of a bachelor's degree.

For example, in the United States an entry level university student is known as an undergraduate, while students of higher degrees are known as graduates.

In some other educational systems and subjects, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a master's degree; this is the case for some science courses in Britain and some medicine courses in Europe.