Admissions & selectivity
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at University of Arkansas at Little Rock?
University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s reported acceptance rate is 58.8%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 58.8%
Source: College Scorecard · Fall 2024 admissions. Acceptance rates can change from year to year; this figure does not predict the current or next admission cycle.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock admits 58.8% of applicants, a rate well below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do University of Arkansas at Little Rock students report?
Enrolled students who submitted SAT scores placed between 960 and 1,210 at the middle. ACT submitters fell from 17 to 24.
Those ranges describe the middle half of recent score submitters, not a cutoff or a profile of every enrolled student. Applicants can weigh their own results against the university's 960–1,210 SAT spread and 17–24 ACT spread, keeping in mind that the numbers reflect only the students who chose to submit.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 960
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1210
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff. The endpoints add section percentiles; they are not verified composite-score percentiles. A separate SAT-equivalent average is not plotted as a median. Source: College Scorecard; sum of section 25th/75th percentiles; enrolled score-submitters.
- 25th percentile
- 17
- 75th percentile
- 24
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at University of Arkansas at Little Rock?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 41.2%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 65.2%
- First-year retention
- 76.5%
Retention source: College Scorecard; full-time first-year retention.
About these student measures
The entering-student group includes part-time entrants as well as other attendance patterns.
University of Arkansas at Little Rock enrolls 4,949 undergraduates, and the composition reflects a campus where most students do not arrive straight from high school. An estimated 65.2% enter as transfers or part-time students, and 41.2% receive Pell Grants.
That mix of federal grant aid recipients and students continuing coursework begun elsewhere means the university serves a population built from multiple entry points rather than a single traditional route. Applicants who are Pell-eligible or arriving with prior credits should use the cost calculator to estimate their own grant-adjusted price and review the transfer information alongside their intended field.
Of full-time students who start at University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 76.5% return for a second year. That is above the peer median of 73.7% for comparable institutions.
The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 41.6%, which sits below the peer median of 49.1%. Pell recipients in that cohort complete at 30.8%, 10.8 percentage points below the overall rate.
Enrolled students can expect a first-year experience that keeps most of them enrolled, though finishing a degree takes longer than at many comparable schools.
Data & methodology
Sources and reporting periods: methodology.
Analysis and methodology by Daniel Rogers, founder of College Azimuth.
Explanatory text is AI-assisted drafting checked against those figures; it is not an additional data source.
Admission rates describe past applicants, not an individual’s chance of admission; confirm requirements and deadlines with the institution.
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