Talking Points

General Enrollment Information

  • Total enrollment: 21,405
  • Average Freshman ACT: 26
  • Average High School GPA: 3.6
  • Average Class Size: 20-29
  • Student/Faculty Ratio: 17:1

Student Life

  • Greek Participation: 20%
  • Registered Student Organization Participation: 50%
  • Graduates having studied abroad: 18% (nearly all Honors College students study abroad)

General Information

The University of Arkansas ranked in 66th place among national public universities in the 2011 edition of U.S. News and World Reports America’s Best Colleges.

The university is now among the top 50 colleges and universities in the country as measured by the number of national merit scholars in attendance.

The University of Arkansas has four nationally ranked colleges including:

  • College of Engineering
  • Fay Jones School of Architecture
  • Sam M. Walton College of Business
  • School of Law

Honors College

  • Honors options available in every major
  • 2200 Honors College participants/average ACT 32, average high school GPA 4.1
  • 21.7% of the undergraduate student population are in the Honors College
  • Since 1997, our students have won a number of nationally and internationally prestigious scholarships, awards, and fellowships, including:
    • 2 Gates Cambridge Scholarship (we are one of only five schools with multiple recipients including Princeton, Northwestern, Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Yale, US Military Academy at West Point and University of Arkansas)
    • 1 Rhodes Scholarship
    • 5 James Madison Scholarships
    • 3 British Marshall Scholarships
    • 37 J. William Fulbright Scholarships (8 in 2010)
    • 15 David L. Boren Scholarships for International Study and Freeman in Asia Scholarships
    • 26 Gilman Scholarships for study abroad (6 in 2010)
    • 7 Harry S. Truman Scholarships for graduate school, awarded to students in public service (3 scholars in last 5 years)
  • In 2002, University of Arkansas was named a Truman Honor Institution
  • 38 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships
  • 37 Goldwater Scholarships (our total is 39)
  • Three each year for nine of the last ten years
  • Ninth in the nation for number of Goldwater Scholars in the last ten years