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Sam M. Walton College of Business

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Type
  
Public

Parent institution
  
University of Arkansas

Phone
  
+1 479-575-5949

Founded
  
1926

Undergraduates
  
5,675 (2016)

Established
  
1926

Affiliations
  
University of Arkansas

Number of students
  
6,132 (2016)

Affiliation
  
University of Arkansas

Postgraduates
  
457 (2016)

Sam M. Walton College of Business

Dean
  
Matthew A. Waller, Ph.D.

Location
  
Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S.

Address
  
220 N Ozark Ave, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA

Notable alumni
  
Justin Boyd, Bart Hester, Trey Flowers, Marshall Wright

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The Sam M. Walton College of Business is a business college at the University of Arkansas. The college is funded by and named after the founder of Wal-Mart, Sam Walton, when in October 1998, the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation made a $50 million upfront cash gift. This was the largest ever given to a public business college. This established the "Sam M. Walton College of Business Administration", but the name was shorted to the "Sam M. Walton College of Business" in 2000. It was originally established in 1926 as the School of Business Administration.

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The College has its own special tuition (as of the 2009–2010 academic year, the tuition was $25.05 per credit hour more than the other colleges) and its own Career Development Center. The Sam Walton College of Business is among the top 25 undergraduate business schools and ranked in the top fifty graduate business schools in the nation in results published by US News and World Report. According to the Wall Street Journal, graduates make in excess of $43,000 in their first job after college.

Notable alumni

  • Justin Boyd, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from Fort Smith; a pharmacist in Alma, Arkansas
  • Bart Hester, Arkansas state senator since 2013 from District 1 in Benton County
  • Doug McMillon, Chief Executive Officer, Wal-Mart
  • Marshall Wright, Democratic member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for District 49; lawyer based in St. Francis County
  • References

    Sam M. Walton College of Business Wikipedia