The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is the only academic health sciences university, public or private, in the state. Established in 1879, UAMS provides the only medical and pharmaceutical education in Arkansas and is the state’s largest, most comprehensive facility for medical treatment and biomedical research. The university pursues its three-fold mission -- to teach, to search, to serve -- through educational programs in the Colleges, biomedical and biotechnology research initiatives, and clinical programs for patients at University Hospital and its affiliated clinics.

Centers & Institutes

• UAMS Medical Center

• Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute

• Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute

• Area Health Education Centers

• Psychiatric Research Institute

• Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute

• Myeloma Institute for Research
  and Therapy

• Donald W. Reynolds Center on Aging

• Translation Research Institute

Colleges

• College of Medicine

• College of Pharmacy

• College of Nursing

• College of Health Related Professions

• College of Public Health

• Graduate School

• Northwest Satellite Campus

Founded in 1871 under the Federal Land-Grant Act and located in Fayetteville along the western edge of the Ozark Mountains, the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville (UAF) is a comprehensive research institution. The flagship campus is Arkansas' major source of theoretical and applied research and provides a wide range of services to the state's citizens, business, and industry.

UA Colleges and Schools

• College of Education and Health Professions
• College of Engineering
• Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences
• Eleanor Mann School of Nursing
• Fay Jones School of Architecture
• Global Campus (School of Continuing Education and Academic Outreach)
• Graduate School
• J. William Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences
• Sam M. Walton College of Business
• School of Human Environmental Sciences
• School of Law
• School of Social Work

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) is a dynamic metropolitan that has traditionally emphasized undergraduate education. It is currently expanding its programs in graduate education and emphasizing technology and information science. As an active and integral part of the community, UALR is able to put its students in close contact with the state's most influential leaders in government, business, industry, medicine, and information technology. In fact, offering the state's only comprehensive information science and systems engineering program, UALR is a leader in the field of information technology.

UALR Colleges and Schools

• College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
• College of Business Administration
• College of Education
• Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology
• College of Professional Studies
• School of Social Work
• College of Sciences and Mathematics
• Graduate Institute of Technology
• Graduate School
• School of Law