College Profile: University of Arkansas at Little Rock

University of Arkansas at Little Rock is the third largest university, by enrollment, in Arkansas, USA.
* The university is located on University Avenue in Little Rock, Arkansas, west of downtown Little Rock and the Arkansas state capitol building. Arkansas-LR (UALR) is the state's only metropolitan university. Approximately 13,000 full and part-time students attend classes in one of the University's colleges: College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
College of Business
College of Education
Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology
College of Professional Studies
College of Science and Mathematics
William H. Bowen School of Law
The Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock Established as Little Rock Junior College by the Little Rock School District in 1927, it became a private four-year institution, called Little Rock University, in 1957. It returned to public status in 1969 when it merged and co-created the University of Arkansas System under its present name. The University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR or Arkansas-Little Rock) is a metropolitan university with a student population of 13,000 full and part-time students, and has a large number of non-traditional (e.g., part-time and commuting) students. Because of the school's location in the state capital and county seat, Arkansas-Little Rock students may benefit from close contact with leaders in government, business, industry, medicine- (University of Arkansas for Medical Science), and information technology. Located on 150 acres (0.61 km2) in urban and Arkansas' largest city of Little Rock, UALR resides in over forty buildings, including a university library which contains 410,000 volumes, 700,000 microform items, 8,300 audiovisual forms and CDs, and subscribes to 2,625 periodicals; special learning facilities that include a learning resource center, art galleries, radio station, television station, Cyber Café, and a wireless network that is being expanded to the rest of the campus, and speech and hearing clinic. As part of its mission as a metropolitan university and as a member of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities, UALR is committed to responding to the needs of the community by creating active links between the campus, community, and commerce.

 

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