The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is the only academic health sciences university, public or private, in the state. Established in 1879, UAMS provides the only medical and pharmaceutical education in Arkansas and is the state’s largest, most comprehensive facility for medical treatment and biomedical research. The university pursues its three-fold mission — to teach, to search, to serve — through educational programs in the Colleges, biomedical and biotechnology research initiatives, and clinical programs for patients at University Hospital and its affiliated clinics.

Centers & Institutes

• Donald W. Reynolds Center on Aging
• Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute
• Institute of Digital Health & innovation
• Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute
• Psychiatric Research Institute
• Translation Research Institute
• Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute

Colleges

• College of Medicine
• College of Pharmacy
• College of Nursing
• College of Health Related Professions
• College of Public Health
• Graduate School
• Northwest Satellite Campus

Founded in 1871 under the Federal Land-Grant Act and located in Fayetteville along the western edge of the Ozark Mountains, the University of Arkansas located in Fayetteville, Arkansas (UAF) is a comprehensive research institution. The flagship campus is Arkansas’ major source of theoretical and applied research and provides a wide range of services to the state’s citizens, business, and industry.

UA Colleges and Schools

• College of Education and Health Professions
• College of Engineering
• Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences
• Eleanor Mann School of Nursing
• Fay Jones School of Architecture
• Global Campus (School of Continuing Education and Academic Outreach)
• Graduate School
• J. William Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences
• Sam M. Walton College of Business
• School of Human Environmental Sciences
• School of Law
• School of Social Work

updated 04/09/2020