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, near the state's capitol.
UALR is the state's only metropolitan university. Approximately 12,000 full- and part-time students attend classes in one of the University's colleges:
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 was merged into the University of Arkansas System under its present name. The University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) is a metropolitan university with a student population of 12,000 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, UALR students may benefit from close contact with leaders in government, business, industry, medicine, and information technology.
Located on 150 acres in urban Little Rock, UALR resides in forty buildings, including a university library which contains 400,000 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.
