Here’s how Arkansas’s colleges and universities rank in preparing teachers to teach, based on results of the licensure test. Passing percentages are only listed for those with 10 or more test takers.

Act 328, sponsored by Senator Alan Clark in 2017’s 91st General Assembly, requires that teaching candidates entering an educator preparation program beginning in the 2017-18 academic year or thereafter for a first-time elementary level K-6 license or special education K-12 license shall take and pass a stand-alone assessment that examines the acquisition of knowledge of essential components of beginning reading instruction based on the science of reading.

Those results are not reflected in the following:

Source: https://eis.ade.arkansas.gov/eppr/docs/State/StatewideReportApril2018.pdf

College/University	2018 % Passed	2018 Test Takers	2017 % Passed	2017 Test Takers	2016 % Passed	2016 Test Takers	Combined 3 Years
University of Arkansas at Little Rock	100%	68	99%	67	99%	76
Ouachita Baptist University	100%	31	100%	33	100%	33
John Brown University	100%	14	93%	29	96%	27
University of Arkansas (Fayetteville)	99%	103	98%	229	98%	250
Henderson State University	98%	92	99%	95	99%	102
Arkansas Tech University	95%	170	98%	168	97%	216
University of Arkansas at Fort Smith	94%	258	98%	104	100%	107
University of Central Arkansas	93%	176	100%	148	99%	170
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff	93%	15	100%	11	100%	11
Harding University	88%	139	95%	128	96%	117
Arkansas State University	84%	206	95%	245	93%	291
Southern Arkansas University	81%	52	93%	45	94%	63
Crowley’s Ridge College	64%	11	82%	11	–	5	14 of 14 (100%)
Williams Baptist University	61%	18	93%	14	85%	27
Central Baptist College	–	7	–	4	–	3
Hendrix College	–	5	–	6	–	5	15 of 16 (94%)
Lyon College	–	1	–	2	–	5	8
Philander Smith College	–	0	–	1	–	1
University of Arkansas at Monticello	–	5	95%	21	95%	37	2
University of the Ozarks	–	9	100%	14	100%	16
TOTALS		1,380		1,375		1,562
State Average	92%		96%		97%