Defunct: Colleges & Universities

Arkadelphia Male and Female Institute
aka: Arkadelphia Institute
aka: Arkadelphia Female Seminary
aka: Arkadelphia Female College
aka: Arkadelphia Female Academy
Several educational institutions with variations of the name Arkade...
Arkansas Christian College
Arkansas Christian College (ACC) was a short-lived junior college established in 1889 in Pinnacle Springs (Fau...
Arkansas College
Arkansas College was founded in Fayetteville (Washington County) in late 1850 by pastor Robert Graham of the D...
Arkansas Conference College (ACC)
Arkansas Conference College (ACC) was founded in Siloam Springs (Benton County) in 1899. Though short-lived, A...
Arkansas Female College
Arkansas Female College operated in Little Rock (Pulaski County) from 1874 to 1897, first in what is now the P...
Arkansas Holiness College
Arkansas Holiness College (AHC), founded in 1904, was the focus for a body of Wesleyan holiness believers who ...
Arkansas Normal College
Arkansas Normal College, located in Jamestown (Independence County), was founded in 1895 as a two-year coeduca...
Arkansas Synodical College
The Arkansas Synodical College, chartered shortly before the Civil War, was one of several abortive attempts b...
Beauvoir College
In 1897, John Jefferson Lee Spence established the Drew Normal Institute in the town of Wilmar (Drew County). ...
Bentonville College
On March 15, 1894, what was described as a “mass meeting” of new subscribers to Bentonville College met in...
Buckner College
Buckner College in Witcherville (Sebastian County), chartered in 1879, began operations in the fall of 1882 as...
Cane Hill College
Cane Hill College was chartered in 1850 as Cane Hill Collegiate Institute (CHCI) and was one of the earliest i...
Central College for Women
Founded in 1892, Central College operated in Conway (Faulkner County) until 1950, educating female students an...
Commonwealth College
Arkansas’s most famous attempt at radical labor education was the accidental by-product of natural beauty, c...
Crescent College and Conservatory
The Crescent College and Conservatory for Young Women operated out of the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs (Ca...
Draughon School of Business (Little Rock)
aka: Draughon Business College (Little Rock)
Draughon’s Practical Business College opened in Little Rock (Pula...
El Dorado Junior College
El Dorado Junior College was a public junior college open from 1928 to 1942 in El Dorado (Union County). Opera...
Far West Seminary
In the mid-1840s, the Far West Seminary, a planned collegiate-level educational institution in northwest Arkan...
Fayetteville Female Seminary
One of the most influential institutions in early Arkansas was the Fayetteville Female Seminary in Fayettevil...
Galloway Women's College
aka: Galloway Female College
Galloway Women’s College in Searcy (White County) was one of the ...
Haygood Seminary
Haygood Seminary in Washington (Hempstead County) was established in 1883 as one of the first schools for Afri...
Henderson-Brown College
Henderson-Brown College (HBC) was a private, co-educational college located in Arkadelphia (Clark County). HBC...
Jonesboro Baptist College
Jonesboro Baptist College was a Christian junior college located in Jonesboro (Craighead County) from 1924 to ...
Judson University
Judson University was a short-lived institution of higher education in Prospect Bluff—present-day Judsonia (...
LaCrosse Collegiate Institute
The LaCrosse Collegiate Institute was established in 1868 by Michael Shelby Kennard, under the name LaCrosse M...
Little Rock College
Little Rock College was the second attempt by the Diocese of Little Rock to establish an institution of higher...
Little Rock University
Little Rock University, founded in 1882, was the second college founded in Little Rock (Pulaski County) and th...
Makemie College
Makemie College, a Presbyterian institution chartered by the Arkansas General Assembly on January 7, 1853, was...
Missionary Baptist College
In the decade before the Great Depression, Missionary Baptist College opened its doors in Sheridan (Grant Coun...
Morrilton Male and Female College
In the spring of 1889, the residents of Morrilton (Conway County) put together a fund of $15,000 to build a co...
Mountain Home (Baptist) College
Mountain Home College (MHC)—known also as Mountain Home Baptist College—operated from 1892 to 1933 in Baxt...
Ozark Industrial College and School of Theology
The Ozark Industrial College and School of Theology was sponsored by the Pentecostal Holiness Church and opera...