-36%
Arkansas Baptist College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Arkansas Baptist College are 36% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($28.4k vs $44.4k).
State hub · Arkansas · vintage 2025-05
Arkansas Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in Arkansas — and every program where federal data is published. Sourced from College Scorecard, IPEDS, and Treasury tax records.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags across Arkansas
Top signals rolled up across Arkansasinstitutions — a mix of warnings and improvements, alternating so the page isn't skewed in either direction. Detectors: short-arc shift (recent 3-year window), earnings trend, peer outlier, completion drop, enrollment cliff, and debt-to-earnings warning. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section.
-22%
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff · Public bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff are 21% below the public bachelor's-predominant peer median ($35.5k vs $45.3k).
20.2%
Washington Barber College Inc · Debt-to-earnings
Debt-to-earnings ratio of 20.2% at Washington Barber College Inc exceeds the 8% gainful-employment threshold ($13.0k debt amortized over 10 years vs $8.6k earnings).
-17%
East Arkansas Community College · Public certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at East Arkansas Community College are 17% below the public certificate-predominant peer median ($28.5k vs $34.2k).
-14%
Ozarka College · Public certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Ozarka College are 14% below the public certificate-predominant peer median ($29.3k vs $34.2k).
-14%
Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas · Public certificate-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas are 14% below the public certificate-predominant peer median ($29.6k vs $34.2k).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across Arkansas Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
76
Title-IV main campuses2,663
with published outcomes$34,871
across institutions47.1%
median across institutions113,895
latest historical vintage$7,334
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How Arkansas has shifted
Federally available history. Sparkline coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Statewide undergraduate enrollment, all Title-IV institutions.
Median completion rate within 150% of expected time.
+43%
Statewide · completion · 150% rose
31.5% → 44.9%
+31%
Statewide · undergrad enrollment rose
87,023 → 113,895
+383%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$1,520 → $7,334
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
23 institutions with 1,000+ undergrads, ranked by 10-year earnings
Click any column header to sort. Click any row for the full institution page. Heat-shading runs against the displayed values; em-dash means the cell was suppressed by federal privacy rules. Institutions with fewer than 1,000undergrads are filtered out here — small specialty schools (cosmetology, barbering, single-credential institutes) arithmetically dominate the extremes on every metric and aren't comparable to larger schools.
Showing 23 of 76 Title-IV institutions · Public 35 · Private 18 · For-profit 23
SECTION 04 · TOP BY EARNINGS
Highest 10-year median earnings
Treasury earnings, 10 years after entry. Includes non-completers and out-of-state movers in the cohort.
SECTION 05 · TOP BY COMPLETION
Highest 150%-time completion
Share of first-time, full-time freshmen who complete within 150% of expected time (IPEDS GR). Filtered to institutions with more than 1,000undergrads — tiny cohorts skew toward 100% and aren't comparable to larger schools.
BY CITY
All 42 Arkansas cities with colleges
Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.
- Arkadelphia
- Batesville
- Beebe
- Bentonville
- Blytheville
- Camden
- Clarksville
- Conway
- De Queen
- El Dorado
- Fayetteville
- Forrest City
- Fort Smith
- Harrison
- Helena
- Hope
- Hot Springs
- Jacksonville
- Jonesboro
- Little Rock
- LIttle Rock
- Magnolia
- Malvern
- Melbourne
- Mena
- Monticello
- Morrilton
- Mountain Home
- N Little Rock
- Newport
- North Little Rock
- Paragould
- Pine Bluff
- Pocahontas
- Rogers
- Russellville
- Searcy
- Sherwood
- Siloam Springs
- Springdale
- Walnut Ridge
- West Memphis
METHODOLOGY
What these numbers are — and aren't
Earnings are median tax-record earnings for federally aided students, 4–10 years after first enrollment. They describe cohorts, not future outcomes — and they include non-completers and out-of-state movers. Selection bias is real: high-earning programs may attract higher-earning students. We surface descriptive numbers, not causal claims.