Education
Nothing matters more to Northwest Arkansans than quality education, and new, well-equipped schools serve growing neighborhoods in every community - Fayetteville, Rogers, Bentonville, Siloam Springs and Springdale. The public schools routinely produce SAT and ACT scores higher than the national average, qualifying more than our fair share of students for National Merit Scholarships. The area also has a wide array of private schools, several of which have been nationally recognized for academic excellence.
• Bentonville High School students score an average of 1226 on the SAT compared to the U.S. average of 1020.
• The Fayetteville School District's Gifted and Talented program is ranked among the top 16 in the nation.
• The Rogers School System has been recognized by the George Lucas Foundation as a national leader in technology.
• Last year, the Siloam Springs Scholarships Program awarded more than 150 students almost $1.5 million in scholarships to continue their education.
• Springdale Schools have been recognized as National Blue Ribbon Schools six times.
Better by Degrees
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, the state's flagship land grant institution and home of the Razorbacks, enrolls 16,000 students in 200 undergraduate and graduate degrees covering approximately 150 fields. It has been named among The Princeton Review's "Best 331 Colleges," scoring third highest in academics among the 12 Southeastern Conference universities.That's particularly impressive since it's also "one of the most affordable major research universities in the country," according to the Review.
A U.S. News & World Report poll ranked the Walton School of Business 40th among the nation's top 100 public undergraduate business schools, and the college's Department of Management was ranked 28th.
Other higher-education facilities in the region include John Brown University in Siloam Springs, a Christian liberal arts college with more than 1,700 students, which was ranked 18th in U.S. News and World Report's list of southern liberal arts schools; Northwest Arkansas Community College in Rogers-Bentonville; Northwest Arkansas Technical Institute in Springdale; and Webster University in Fayetteville.
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