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Arkansas has 30 four-year degree-granting institutions active in the federal directory — 14 public, 15 private nonprofit, and 1 private for-profit.
The list below is every active, degree-granting institution IPEDS classifies at the four-year level. It is a directory, not a ranking. Two-year colleges, certificate-only schools, and institutions that have closed or stopped reporting are not here.
Four-year institutions
| Institution | City | Control | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas Baptist College | Little Rock | Private nonprofit | HBCU |
| Arkansas Colleges of Health Education | Fort Smith | Private nonprofit | Medical school |
| Arkansas State University | Jonesboro | Public | |
| Arkansas State University System | Little Rock | Public | |
| Arkansas Tech University | Russellville | Public | |
| Central Baptist College | Conway | Private nonprofit | |
| Champion Christian College | Hot Springs | Private nonprofit | |
| Crowley's Ridge College | Paragould | Private nonprofit | |
| Ecclesia College | Springdale | Private nonprofit | |
| Harding University | Searcy | Private nonprofit | |
| Henderson State University | Arkadelphia | Public | |
| Hendrix College | Conway | Private nonprofit | |
| Jackson Theological Seminary | North Little Rock | Private nonprofit | |
| John Brown University | Siloam Springs | Private nonprofit | |
| Lyon College | Batesville | Private nonprofit | |
| Ouachita Baptist University | Arkadelphia | Private nonprofit | |
| Philander Smith University | Little Rock | Private nonprofit | HBCU |
| Southern Arkansas University Main Campus | Magnolia | Public | |
| Strayer University-Arkansas | Little Rock | Private for-profit | |
| University of Arkansas | Fayetteville | Public | Land-grant |
| University of Arkansas at Little Rock | Little Rock | Public | |
| University of Arkansas at Monticello | Monticello | Public | |
| University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff | Pine Bluff | Public | HBCU; Land-grant |
| University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences | Little Rock | Public | Medical school |
| University of Arkansas Grantham | LIttle Rock | Public | |
| University of Arkansas System Office | Little Rock | Public | |
| University of Arkansas-Fort Smith | Fort Smith | Public | |
| University of Central Arkansas | Conway | Public | |
| University of the Ozarks | Clarksville | Private nonprofit | |
| Williams Baptist University | Walnut Ridge | Private nonprofit |
Public university systems
System membership as recorded in the IPEDS directory. Counts are of four-year public members in this table only, so a system that also runs two-year campuses will show more members in its own materials.
| System | Four-year public members here |
|---|---|
| Arkansas State University System | 3 |
| University of Arkansas System | 7 |
Sources
- NCES IPEDS, Institutional Characteristics directory (HD2024) — the federal directory of postsecondary institutions participating in Title IV programs. Every institution, city, control, and system value above is read directly from that file. Retrieved 2026-08-11 from nces.ed.gov/ipeds.
- Filters applied: currently active (
CYACTIVE), degree-granting (DEGGRANT), and institutional level (ICLEVEL). Flags in the Notes column are the IPEDSHBCU,TRIBAL,LANDGRNT, andMEDICALfields.
Institution names are IPEDS legal names and sometimes differ from the name a school markets under. Check the institution's own site before relying on any detail here.
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