BusinessPundit 2026 Rankings
#78 The Top 100 MBA Programs

Arkansas Walton College of Business

University of Arkansas · Fayetteville, Arkansas · Public

“Walmart's business school, and everyone knows it.”

Reviewed by David Krug · July 2026
Data anchored to the 2026 U.S. News table, Poets&Quants reporting, and school-published class profiles

Arkansas Walton College of Business
70.9
GoodBP Score
$55,000Tuition, total
620Avg. GMAT
Acceptance rate
86%Placed at 3 months
$100,000Median base salary

Our review

Walton sits thirty minutes from Walmart’s home office, and the world’s largest retailer shapes everything: the supplier community (hundreds of consumer brands staff Bentonville offices) recruits the retail and supply-chain tracks continuously, and the university’s retail-analytics labs run on real category data. The regional cost of living makes the salaries stretch further than coastal numbers suggest.

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