Current or potential college students may want to use the summer months to advance their degree plans, expand work skills, or enjoy enrichment classes.

From accounting to zoology, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock offers more than 800 classes in four separate summer sessions, including plenty of online courses.

Tammy Harrison, director of UALR Office of Financial Aid, said summer classes are an opportunity to concentrate on a challenging course or get a head start on college.

“For example, area students attending college elsewhere can join us in the summer to complete needed college requirements that can be transferred back to their home school,” she said.

Harrison said lottery scholarship recipients may also want to enroll in the summer to make up needed hours or to improve a GPA to meet renewal requirements to keep a scholarship for the upcoming academic year.
Financial aid is available to UALR students to help with the cost of summer school as they work to complete their degrees. Students may apply for financial aid by completing the UALR Summer Financial Aid Application in BOSS, just as soon as they register for their summer classes.

UALR has a four-session summer schedule: Summer I is held May 27 – Aug. 5; Summer II is held May 27 – June 30; Summer III is held June 9 – Aug. 5; and Summer IV is held July 7 – Aug. 8.

The regular registration deadline for Summer I and Summer II is by 4 p.m. May 23. Late registration for Summer I and Summer II is held from May 27 to 28 by 4 p.m.

Summer III regular registration goes through June 6 by 4 p.m. and late registration will be June 9 – 10 by 4 p.m. Summer IV regular registration runs through July 3 by 4 p.m. Late registration will be July 7 – 8 by 4 p.m.

For more information visit ualr.edu/summer. For payment deadline dates, visit the Bursar’s Office.