Higher Education Consumer Guide
The Arkansas Division of Higher Education created the Higher Education Consumer Guide for use by prospective students and parents and legal guardians of prospective students at a state-supported institution of higher education. The guides include the following information without limitation for each state-supported institution of higher education for the most recent state fiscal year:
- Retention and graduation rates
- Cost of tuition
- Average amount borrowed and loan default rate
- Admission rates for institutions not determined to be open admission institutions
- Average composite test scores of students enrolled
- Job placement within the first three (3) years of graduation
- Income of college alumni over the first twenty (20) years after completion of credential
- Percentage of students enrolled from the top 10% of a public high school in Arkansas
- Average time to degree for completion of an associate or bachelor’s degree at the institution.