Did You Know?

The National Record Brown Trout (weighing 40 pounds) was caught in the Little Red River.

Universities

The Metro Little Rock region is home to several universities that continue to increase their enrollments and expand their programs each year. For instance, the University of Central Arkansas (UCA) in Conway had a 12.9% increase in total Fall 2005 enrollment over Fall 2004 enrollment. Total Graduate level students increased 37.3% over Fall 2004. UCA's Honors College has been perceived in the state and nationally as a highly innovative and model program.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) is expanding its Systems Engineering program to offer Mechanical and Electrical engineering options. It has also received a $5 million commitment toward its new CyberCollege building project.

The Metro Little Rock Region's Hendrix College was ranked in the 2006 "America's Best Colleges" issue of the U.S. News & World Report among the country's top liberal arts colleges in the nation. This is the 18th consecutive year that Hendrix has been listed among the nation's top colleges.

More information on our regional universities can be found below.

Colleges and Universities

			Enrollment
County	College	City	Total	Full-time	Part-time	Undergraduate Full-time	Graduate Full-time
< Regional Totals >	Arkansas Baptist College	Little Rock	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
	Harding University	Searcy	5,348	4,117	1,231	4,046	1,302
	Hendrix University	Conway	1,049	1,027	22	1,042	7
	LRAFB Education Center	Jacksonville	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
	Philander Smith College	Little Rock	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
	UALR	Little Rock	10,607	6,568	4,039	8,546	1,595
	UAMS	Little Rock	2,226	1,712	514	799	527
	University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff	Pine Bluff	3,259	2,914	345	3,164	95
	University of Central Arkansas	Conway	10,051	8,904	1,147	9,047	1,004
	Webster University	Little Rock	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Faulkner	Hendrix University	Conway	1,095	1,086	9	1,088	7
	University of Central Arkansas	Conway	12,324	10,203	2,121	9,531	672
Jefferson	University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff	Pine Bluff	3,067	2,638	429	2,600	38
Pulaski	Arkansas Baptist College	Little Rock	306	255	51	254	1
	LRAFB Education Center	Jacksonville	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
	Philander Smith College	Little Rock	580	483	97	483
	UALR	Little Rock	10,050	6,030	4,020	5,406	624
	UAMS	Little Rock	2,435	1,843	592	603	1,240
	Webster University	Little Rock	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
White	Harding University	Searcy	6,085	4,160	1,925	3,799	329

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