Peer institutions are institutions that are selected to be used for comparative analysis and benchmarking of institutional qualities.
Peers usually have common qualities such as level of resources, student headcount, and institutional goals. Carnegie classification is one of the criteria often used in identifying a peer.
UA Little Rock has used the following institutions as its peers:
- Boise State University
- Cleveland State University
- Georgia Southern University
- Indiana State University
- Portland State University
- Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
- University of Memphis
- University of Missouri – St. Louis
- University of Nebraska at Omaha
- University of New Orleans
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Marshall University
- University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth
- University of Tennessee – Chattanooga
- Wichita State University
- Old Dominion University