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Furnished & Mid-Term Housing Near Kennesaw State
Furnished housing across two Cobb campuses — Kennesaw and Marietta
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What creates furnished demand at Kennesaw State
Kennesaw State enrolled 51,375 students in autumn 2025, up 7.4% in a year. It is one of the largest universities in Georgia and it grew faster than almost any of them.
It runs two separate campuses eleven miles apart, both in Cobb County: the original Kennesaw campus on Chastain Road, and the Marietta campus on South Marietta Parkway — the former Southern Polytechnic State University, merged into KSU in 2015. Two campuses means two distinct housing catchments rather than one.
Cobb County is outside MARTA, so a car is assumed and parking matters more here than anywhere inside the Perimeter.
Kennesaw State is classified as a comprehensive rather than a research university, so its graduate and postdoc population is proportionally smaller than Georgia Tech's or Emory's — 5,306 graduate students. It does run a formal postdoctoral scholar programme and hosts incoming Fulbright scholars, but at a smaller scale, and this page does not pretend otherwise.
| Kennesaw campus | 1000 Chastain Rd, Kennesaw, GA 30144 |
|---|---|
| Marietta campus | 1100 South Marietta Pkwy — the former Southern Polytechnic, merged 2015 |
| Total enrolment | 51,375 (autumn 2025), up 7.4% year on year |
| Graduate enrolment | 5,306 |
| Classification | Comprehensive university — a smaller research and postdoc profile than Georgia Tech or Emory |
| Transit | No MARTA — Cobb County is outside the system, so parking is not optional |
Who actually stays
The guest is not a tourist.
A furnished let near Kennesaw State is booked by people who need somewhere to live for a defined stretch of time — long enough that a hotel stops making sense, short enough that a twelve-month lease is impossible.
- Graduate students across two campuses
- Visiting scholars including incoming Fulbright appointments
- Visiting faculty on semester appointments
- Wellstar Kennestone healthcare staff, ten minutes from the Marietta campus
- Cobb County corporate stays
The 30-day line
Thirty days is the line that separates two different businesses in Georgia, and three separate rules turn on it. Atlanta's short-term rental ordinance defines a short-term rental as lodging for a period not exceeding 30 consecutive days, so a longer furnished let sits outside that certificate regime by the ordinance's own definition. Georgia's local hotel-motel excise tax exempts charges for continuous occupancy after the first 30 days. And the state's $5-a-night hotel-motel fee stops once a stay becomes an "extended stay rental" of 31 or more consecutive days to the same guest — though if that guest checks out and checks back in, the count resets to zero and the fee starts again. This is why owners near hospitals, studios and campuses so often choose furnished mid-term over nightly: fewer turnovers, a different rulebook, and a guest who stays for a season rather than a weekend. Local rules differ across metro Atlanta and do change, so the position should be confirmed for a specific address before a property is listed.
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How we manage it
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Furnished mid-term is one strategy among several, and the right one depends on the property rather than on what suits us. If a nightly let or a twelve-month tenancy would earn you more, we will say so. These are the service lines that most often apply around Kennesaw State:
Areas we manage nearby
Want the whole property handled rather than one strategy? Kennesaw property management covers short-term, long-term and everything between.
Questions owners ask
Furnished housing near Kennesaw State
Which campus should a property be near?
They are genuinely different markets about eleven miles apart, and choosing between them matters more than it would at a single-campus university. The Kennesaw campus on Chastain Road is the original and larger one. The Marietta campus on South Marietta Parkway is the former Southern Polytechnic State University, merged into Kennesaw State in 2015, and it sits near Marietta Square — roughly ten minutes from Wellstar Kennestone. That second point is the interesting one for an owner: a furnished property near the Marietta campus can serve students and visiting faculty during term and hospital contract staff on 13-week assignments year-round, from the same address. Kennestone recently added 235 beds including a 49-bed neonatal intensive care unit, so that clinical demand is growing rather than static.
Is the academic demand here as strong as at Georgia Tech or Emory?
Not in the graduate and postdoctoral segment, and it would be dishonest to imply otherwise. Kennesaw State is classified as a comprehensive university rather than a research one, with 5,306 graduate students against Georgia Tech's and Emory's much deeper research populations. It does run a formal postdoctoral scholar programme and hosts incoming Fulbright scholars, but at a smaller scale. What Kennesaw State has instead is size and momentum: 51,375 students in autumn 2025, up 7.4% in a single year, spread across two campuses in a county with no rail transit and comparatively little purpose-built furnished supply. For an owner that is a different proposition from the intown academic markets — more volume, less specialisation — and a property should be positioned for it accordingly.
How much does parking matter in Cobb?
A great deal, and this is the point most owners coming from an intown mindset get wrong. Cobb County sits outside the MARTA system entirely, so a guest here will have a car — there is no realistic version of living near either campus without one. Off-street parking therefore stops being an amenity and becomes close to a requirement, and it belongs near the top of the listing rather than buried in a features list. If a property has secure parking, or space for two vehicles where housemates are sharing, say so explicitly and early. The same logic applies to the Marietta campus and to Wellstar Kennestone ten minutes away: in a county without rail, the parking situation is frequently what decides between two otherwise comparable properties.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from one of the following, checked on the date shown.
- Kennesaw State University — about, campuses and enrolment — checked 2026-09-01
- Kennesaw State — institutional research fast facts — checked 2026-09-01
- University System of Georgia — autumn 2025 enrolment report — checked 2026-09-01
- Kennesaw State — postdoctoral scholar resources — checked 2026-09-01
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