The Marietta Campus of Georgia Highlands College opened in the Fall Semester of 2006, in state-of-the-art facilities on the campus of Southern Polytechnic University, located just off Cobb Parkway, in Marietta, Georgia. Serving over 1,000 students, GHC-Marietta provides accessible educational opportunities to many of the students in Cobb County (Georgia's second fastest growing county). GHC-Marietta was the first campus in the GHC family to offer residential living on campus. Kirk Nooks was GHC-Marietta's first site director, and he was succeeded by Mr. Ken Reaves in March of 2013.