University of
Arkansas at Little Rock
Public Research University in Little Rock, AR. Six-year graduation rate 41%. Median 10-year earnings $45,265.
The median ten-year earnings figure of $45,265 sits near the national middle rather than at either extreme. The six-year graduation rate is 41%, meaning about three in five students who start do not finish. Graduates carry a median of $22,000 in debt — in line with the national norm. It also moves people — 2.1% of students climb from the bottom fifth of the income distribution to the top.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
At 59%, the acceptance rate makes University of Arkansas at Little Rock a school worth applying to with alternatives in hand. 4,335 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. 22% of those admitted enroll, which is unremarkable in either direction. The score bands below rest on the 5% of enrolled first-years who submitted an SAT score — a self-selected group, and not a cutoff.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | 490–630 | 26 (5%) |
| SAT Math | 470–580 | |
| ACT Composite | 17–24 | 465 (84%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is middling: 41% finish inside six years. 76% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in four are gone before sophomore year. The distance between those two figures is the part worth noticing — students return for a second year at a much higher rate than they graduate, so attrition here is spread across the middle years rather than concentrated in the first. A 24% transfer-out rate accounts for part of that gap: those students left for another institution rather than dropping out, and the graduation rate above counts them as non-completers here. The part-time picture is harder: 50% return, against 76% full-time.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 4,740 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
At $12,033 a year on average after grant aid, cost is low here relative to most undergraduate institutions. Income makes less difference than usual: $15,195 at $0–30k, $22,255 at $110k+. 73% of students receive grant aid, averaging $9,227 — common but not automatic. About 44% borrow federally, roughly the national pattern.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 452 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $15,195 |
| $30–48k | $16,250 |
| $48–75k | $19,018 |
| $75–110k | $21,087 |
| $110k+ | $22,255 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 2,092 of these 4,740 students, totalling $15,812,556 — an average of $7,559 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Pulaski County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)