Annual supply chain openings: about 740. Fastest growth to 2034: logisticians, +27.4%.
ACM discounts tuition in member states. 123 programs qualify.
Accredited Supply Chain Programs In Arkansas
By level, Arkansas has four bachelor’s, two master’s and one doctorate. Every Arkansas program sits in an AACSB-accredited business school.
University of Arkansas offers the most in Arkansas: four programs, from bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate study. Across Arkansas, three listings name an online format.
Verified supply chain programs in Arkansas, at a glance
Lowest stated total of the 2 Arkansas graduate programs that state one
The only STEM-designated program among the 6 verified in Arkansas
More about this program
Plan, source, make, and deliver organize the core of the University of Arkansas's online master's in supply chain management, a STEM-designated, 30-credit degree from the Sam M. Walton College of Business. Required courses include demand planning and inventory operations, global procurement and supply management, achieving operational excellence, customer service and distribution management, and supply chain performance management and analytics, and you choose 9 hours of approved electives. Full- and part-time schedules are both available, with an estimated two years to complete. Tuition and fees come to $707.73 per credit hour at fall 2026 rates, a total of $21,231.90. Classes begin in fall or spring. The GMAT or GRE is the entrance test, though a 3.2 undergraduate GPA or three years of professional work experience may qualify you for a waiver. A separate Dallas option adds two weekend on-site sessions each semester.
Shortest stated length of the 2 Arkansas graduate programs that state one
More about this program
Walton College runs its Full-Time MBA as a one-year, on-campus program from August to June, and Supply Chain Management is one of the elective focus areas alongside Business Analytics, Finance, Negotiations, Organizational Innovation and Retail Marketing. Every admitted student receives a graduate assistantship that fully funds the program's published tuition and fees of $30,093.72, though students still cover required fees and an optional Global Immersion trip out of pocket. Students complete 38 credit hours with their cohort, combining core coursework with electives and professional development programming, plus a required Global Immersion experience that currently travels to India. A GMAT or GRE score is required but can be waived for applicants with two or more years of post-bachelor's professional work experience. The program starts each fall and reports 92% of graduates employed within 90 days.
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in Supply Chain Management
Fayetteville, AR
On campus
Fully online
AACSB-accredited business school
Highest six-year graduation rate of the 4 Arkansas bachelor’s schools
More about this program
A required internship comes before graduation in this supply chain major, run by the J.B. Hunt Transport Department of Supply Chain Management on campus or completely online. Coursework moves through the plan, source, make, and deliver stages of a supply chain, ending in a capstone on supply chain strategy and change management. You'll also pick one of seven minors, choosing from options like business analytics, finance, or retail, to round out the 120-credit degree. The online track lists tuition at $376.09 per credit hour for fall 2026, plus library, network, and facility fees charged per credit hour on top of that. Walton College says its supply chain undergraduate program has been ranked No. 1 in North America by Gartner. Graduates take on roles like inventory analyst, demand planner, or logistics specialist, working across manufacturing, retail, and consulting employers that include Fortune 500 companies.
Bachelor of Science in Global Supply Chain Management
Jonesboro, AR
On campus
Fully online
AACSB-accredited business school
Lowest in-state tuition of the 4 Arkansas bachelor’s programs
More about this program
Arkansas State's bachelor of science in global supply chain management runs entirely online through the Neil Griffin College of Business, which the school says is AACSB accredited, a mark reached by only 6% of business schools worldwide. Coursework runs 120 credit hours: 38 in general education, 60 in major courses, and 22 in electives, covering inventory control, purchasing, transportation, and international logistics from both operational and analytical angles. You'll examine how products reach consumers efficiently, evaluate suppliers within the purchasing function, and compare domestic and international supply chains. Courses are accelerated with multiple start dates a year, and A-State accepts up to 90 transfer credit hours toward the degree. Online tuition is a flat $302 per credit hour, or $906 per course, for students anywhere in the country, with all fees included in that rate.
The University of Central Arkansas awards a Bachelor of Business Administration in Logistics and Supply Chain Management through its College of Business. On the 2026-2027 checksheet, the 120-hour degree combines the 38-hour UCA lower-division core, 33 hours of business foundation courses, 18 hours of business core and 24 hours in the major. The six required major courses are Strategic Human Resource Management, Purchasing & Materials Management, Transportation & Motor Carrier Management, Logistics Strategy, Quantitative Methods in Management, and Safety and Motor Carrier Policy, and you add two electives from a list that includes Transportation Economics, Project Management, International Business and management internships. Before taking more than 9 hours of upper-division business courses, you need a 2.0 cumulative GPA and a 2.0 GPA across five foundation courses in accounting, statistics and economics.
Supply chain majors at Southern Arkansas University take a required core of 24 hours built around SAP enterprise systems, business analytics, project management and environmentally sustainable practices, then add nine hours of upper-level business electives from anywhere in the Rankin College of Business. The full Bachelor of Business Administration runs 120 hours on campus, layering that major coursework onto a business core in accounting, finance, statistics, information systems and marketing. You work with an assigned Rankin College faculty advisor on scheduling, mentoring and career placement, and can pursue internships tied to your career plans. A recent graduate went on to work as a logistics coordinator, and the Rankin College of Business carries AACSB accreditation. Clubs such as Phi Beta Lambda and ENACTUS add hands-on leadership opportunities alongside the coursework.
Each card is read from the school’s own program page. The rank is the program’s place in this site’s national ranking of its kind; the highlighted lines compare it with the other verified programs in Arkansas. A card marked “Not ranked” has no national rank to show: three are bachelor’s programs placed below the top 25 that the national bachelor’s list publishes.
These programs appear in the AACSB or ACBSP listing. This site hasn’t verified their tuition, credits or length yet, so their cards carry the accreditor’s record only.
What A Supply Chain Degree Costs In Arkansas
In Arkansas, stated graduate totals run from $19,572 at University of Arkansas to $30,094 at University of Arkansas.
For a bachelor’s, Arkansas State University reports the lowest in-state rate in Arkansas, $7,754 a year, and University of Central Arkansas the highest, $10,118.
Graduate figures are read from each school’s own program page.
Master’s Programs In Arkansas
Master’s in supply chain management programs in Arkansas, by total tuition
Tuition and fees are per year for the whole school, from IPEDS 2023-24; graduation rates are six-year, whole school.
In-State And Out-Of-State Tuition In Arkansas
Four Arkansas public universities report higher rates for nonresidents; the gap runs from $5,580 a year at Southern Arkansas University to $19,024 at University of Arkansas. For an Arkansas student, residency at University of Arkansas is worth about $76,096 over four years.
Tuition Discounts For Arkansas Residents
Arkansas belongs to one regional tuition exchange. ACM is open to Arkansas residents for undergraduate and graduate study. Besides Arkansas, 13 member states have 123 programs, 27 of them in Texas.
If the program you want isn’t offered in Arkansas, an exchange can keep a campus over the border near Arkansas’s in-state cost. Before applying, Arkansas students should ask each school whether ACM covers its degree.
Academic Common Market, run by SREB: in-state tuition at an out-of-state school for a program that public institutions in your home state don’t offer.
Supply Chain Programs Near Arkansas
Arkansas borders Texas, Missouri, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Mississippi. Together Arkansas’s neighbors have 67 accredited programs, 27 of them in Texas, more than Arkansas has itself.
Next door, the lowest stated graduate total is $11,010; in Arkansas it is $19,572. Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Mississippi share a tuition exchange with Arkansas.
Accredited supply chain programs in the states bordering Arkansas
$9,815 ($26,580 nonresident), Mississippi State University
Note: A blank cell means that state has no program with a verified figure.
Graduate totals are read from each school’s program page; bachelor’s rates are IPEDS 2023-24, per year, for the whole school.
Studying Supply Chain Management Online In Arkansas
Three of the seven Arkansas directory listings name an online format, so some Arkansas students can skip the commute to an in-state school. Arkansas’s University of Arkansas appears in the online master’s ranking.
Residency can still matter online for an Arkansas student: University of Arkansas charges Arkansas’s nonresidents $19,024 more a year on campus; an Arkansas student should check whether its online rate differs.
In Arkansas, purchasing managers earn the highest median of these occupations, $156,450. Logisticians in Arkansas earn a median of $78,400, below the $82,320 national figure; Arkansas’s lowest-paid tenth earn under $45,780 and the top tenth over $134,910.
For transportation, storage and distribution managers in Arkansas, the occupation that includes supply chain managers, the median is $89,200, with the 10th percentile at $52,620 and the 90th at $174,990. On the procurement side, Arkansas’s purchasing managers earn a median of $156,450 and its buyers and purchasing agents $75,870, across 4,510 jobs.
Supply chain occupations in Arkansas: jobs and median pay
Note: A blank cell means BLS publishes no Arkansas estimate for that figure.
BLS publishes no separate wage for supply chain managers. They are counted inside transportation, storage and distribution managers, and every figure here is for that whole occupation. BLS publishes no separate wage for customs brokers. They are counted inside compliance officers, an occupation that spans government, finance and healthcare, so figures for the whole occupation describe far more than customs work.
Pay And The Cost Of Living In Arkansas
At 86.9 for 2024, Arkansas’s BEA price level sits 13.1% under the U.S. average, so Arkansas’s $78,400 logistician median buys what $90,180 would nationally. Adjusted that way, Arkansas ranks 14th of 51 for logistician pay.
Supply Chain Pay By Metro Area In Arkansas
Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR pays Arkansas’s highest logistician median, $83,030, $4,630 above the Arkansas figure. Metros crossing into Tennessee, Mississippi and Oklahoma count their jobs outside Arkansas too.
Median pay for logisticians and transportation, storage and distribution managers in Arkansas metro areas
Note: A blank cell means BLS publishes no estimate for that metro.
Arkansas Pay Against Its Neighbors
Oklahoma pays logisticians the most here, $86,600; Arkansas is second of 7 at $78,400. Adjusted for prices, Oklahoma leads at $98,585, and Arkansas places second.
Logistician and manager pay in Arkansas and the states it borders
Note: Price-adjusted pay divides the median by BEA’s state price level. A blank cell means no estimate.
Where The Supply Chain Jobs Are In Arkansas
Arkansas’s largest by headcount: buyers and purchasing agents (4,510), then industrial production managers (2,560) and production, planning, and expediting clerks (2,390). Arkansas holds 0.7% of U.S. jobs in the managers’ occupation, and Arkansas logisticians are 0.9% of the U.S. total.
The managers’ occupation has 1.103 jobs per 1,000 in Arkansas (location quotient 0.78), ranking Arkansas 30th of 50 and well below the national share. In Arkansas, logisticians hold 1.706 jobs per 1,000 (1.06 quotient, 13th).
Compliance officers and operations research analysts are left out of this count: both occupations reach well beyond supply chain work. “The managers’ occupation” is transportation, storage and distribution managers. A location quotient of 1.0 means the occupation’s share of jobs matches the national share.
Arkansas Logistics Industries
County Business Patterns counts 70,632 transportation and warehousing jobs at 2,567 Arkansas employers in 2023, plus 52,774 jobs in Arkansas’s wholesale trade. By that count Arkansas ranks 32nd of 51 for transportation and warehousing employment.
Within it, trucking is Arkansas’s largest freight line, 38,150 jobs, followed by warehousing and storage at 13,936. Warehousing and storage employs 13,936 people at 200 Arkansas sites, 33rd among the states. The best-paid of these lines in Arkansas is freight support services, averaging $66,212 a year per job.
Logistics and wholesale industries in Arkansas: jobs, employers and average pay, 2023
Note: A blank cell means the Census Bureau withholds that figure to protect individual employers.
County Business Patterns 2023 (Census Bureau): employer establishments, mid-March employment and annual payroll; average pay is payroll divided by jobs. Rail is outside its scope. Shares compare with the 50 states and DC.
Supply Chain Job Growth In Arkansas Through 2034
In Arkansas, logisticians grow fastest: +27.4%, from 1,600 jobs in 2024 to 2,040 in 2034, per Arkansas’s labor market office (U.S.: +16.7%). The slowest in Arkansas is production, planning, and expediting clerks, at +0.1%.
Across its five core supply chain occupations, Arkansas expects about 740 openings a year. All five grow faster in Arkansas than across the U.S.
Projected employment for supply chain occupations in Arkansas, 2024 to 2034
Long-term projections from each state’s labor market information office, published through Projections Central (discover.arkansas.gov). Openings count new jobs plus workers who retire or change careers. The core occupations leave out compliance officers and operations research analysts.
Supply Chain Occupations In Arkansas, One By One
Transportation, Storage, And Distribution Managers In Arkansas
Arkansas has 1,440 transportation, storage and distribution managers. Their median, $89,200, puts Arkansas 50th of 52. The middle half of Arkansas’s pay for this occupation runs from $72,180 to $124,970, and the outer tenths reach $52,620 and $174,990. At 1.103 jobs per 1,000 in Arkansas, its location quotient is 0.78 (30th). Arkansas’s labor office projects +10% to 2034, about 90 openings a year.
Logisticians In Arkansas
Arkansas has 2,220 logisticians. Their median, $78,400, puts Arkansas 33rd of 52. The middle half of Arkansas’s pay for this occupation runs from $62,240 to $106,710, and the outer tenths reach $45,780 and $134,910. At 1.706 jobs per 1,000 in Arkansas, its location quotient is 1.06 (13th). Arkansas’s labor office projects +27.4% to 2034, about 200 openings a year.
Purchasing Managers In Arkansas
Arkansas has 930 purchasing managers. Their median, $156,450, puts Arkansas 12th of 51. The middle half of Arkansas’s pay for this occupation runs from $96,560 to $214,710, and the outer tenths reach $74,290 and $273,100. At 0.717 jobs per 1,000 in Arkansas, its location quotient is 1.32 (seventh). Arkansas’s labor office projects +12.9% to 2034, about 70 openings a year.
Buyers And Purchasing Agents In Arkansas
Arkansas has 4,510 buyers and purchasing agents. Their median, $75,870, puts Arkansas 24th of 52. The middle half of Arkansas’s pay for this occupation runs from $54,400 to $106,110, and the outer tenths reach $42,710 and $135,830. At 3.457 jobs per 1,000 in Arkansas, its location quotient is 1.09 (14th).
Operations Research Analysts In Arkansas
Arkansas has 210 operations research analysts. Their median, $59,030, puts Arkansas 47th of 48. The middle half of Arkansas’s pay for this occupation runs from $48,520 to $80,510, and the outer tenths reach $47,350 and $96,920. At 0.164 jobs per 1,000 in Arkansas, its location quotient is 0.24 (47th). Arkansas’s labor office projects +29.8% to 2034, about 10 openings a year.
Industrial Production Managers In Arkansas
Arkansas has 2,560 industrial production managers. Their median, $118,120, puts Arkansas 37th of 51. The middle half of Arkansas’s pay for this occupation runs from $96,860 to $163,210, and the outer tenths reach $74,970 and $201,560. At 1.962 jobs per 1,000 in Arkansas, its location quotient is 1.24 (tenth). Arkansas’s labor office projects +7.4% to 2034, about 190 openings a year.
Cargo And Freight Agents In Arkansas
BLS publishes no Arkansas job count for cargo and freight agents. Their median, $50,500, puts Arkansas 24th of 49. The middle half of Arkansas’s pay for this occupation runs from $45,450 to $58,740, and the outer tenths reach $31,350 and $67,460.
Production, Planning, And Expediting Clerks In Arkansas
Arkansas has 2,390 production, planning, and expediting clerks. Their median, $50,350, puts Arkansas 50th of 52. The middle half of Arkansas’s pay for this occupation runs from $43,940 to $65,740, and the outer tenths reach $38,130 and $85,600. At 1.83 jobs per 1,000 in Arkansas, its location quotient is 0.73 (29th). Arkansas’s labor office projects +0.1% to 2034, about 190 openings a year.
Compliance Officers In Arkansas
Arkansas has 3,120 compliance officers. Their median, $64,680, puts Arkansas 48th of 52. The middle half of Arkansas’s pay for this occupation runs from $49,500 to $83,410, and the outer tenths reach $43,160 and $132,760. At 2.391 jobs per 1,000 in Arkansas, its location quotient is 0.89 (31st). Arkansas’s labor office projects +8.3% to 2034, about 260 openings a year.
Pay and percentiles from BLS OEWS (May 2025); state ranks count the states, DC and Puerto Rico with an estimate. Each occupation’s salary page carries its national, state and metro detail.
Arkansas Freight And The Supply Chain Economy
Counting shipments that start, end or stay in Arkansas, the Freight Analysis Framework estimates 331.8 million tons of freight worth $299.4 billion moved in 2024. That ranks Arkansas 35th of 51 by value and 29th by weight, and 49.9% of its tonnage never leaves the state.
By value, mixed freight and meat and seafood lead Arkansas’s freight. By weight, Arkansas moves mostly natural gas and fossil products and gravel. In Arkansas, trucks carry 66% of the tons, pipelines 20.1% and rail 8%.
Arkansas’s largest domestic trading partner is Texas ($29.2 billion, both directions), then Tennessee and Missouri. Arkansas exported $7.0 billion of freight, mostly to Europe, and imported $7.0 billion, mostly from Europe. The framework forecasts Arkansas’s tonnage to grow 51.9% by 2050 and its real value 98.2%.
The five largest commodities by value in Arkansas freight, 2024
Freight Analysis Framework 5.7.1 (BTS and FHWA): 2024 estimates in current dollars; the 2050 value forecast is in constant 2017 dollars. Trading-partner values combine freight in both directions.
Arkansas Metro Areas With Supply Chain Programs
Arkansas’s programs fall across four Census areas, led by Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR with one school.
Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR (metro area): University of Arkansas.
Jonesboro, AR (metro area): Arkansas State University.
Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR (metro area): University of Central Arkansas.
Magnolia, AR (micropolitan area): Southern Arkansas University.
Areas are Census Bureau CBSAs (July 2023), assigned by each school’s county.
Arkansas City Guides
Arkansas has two city pages: Fayetteville, AR and Memphis.
Each city page lists the programs with a campus in the city itself (where there is none, the nearest in its metro, and the page says “near”), with pay for every supply chain occupation across the metro. A metro that crosses a state line is listed under each state it reaches.
Arkansas Programs In The National Rankings
Master’s ranking: one of the 58 programs is in Arkansas, and the best placed is University of Arkansas at number 9.
MBA ranking: one of the 38 programs is in Arkansas, and the best placed is University of Arkansas at number 8.
Bachelor’s ranking: four of the 148 programs are in Arkansas, and the best placed is University of Arkansas at number 10.
How To Choose A Supply Chain Program In Arkansas
Start with the level: Arkansas’s seven listings split into four bachelor’s, two master’s and one doctorate.
Compare totals, not per-credit rates. Among Arkansas’s priced graduate programs, University of Arkansas costs $10,521 less in total than University of Arkansas.
Stay in state if you can. At University of Arkansas, an Arkansas resident pays $9,748 a year against $28,772 for everyone else.
Ask about ACM before ruling out a school outside Arkansas; Arkansas’s residents can use it for undergraduate and graduate study.
Check the format line by line: three of Arkansas’s seven directory listings name an online option, and University of Arkansas states an online graduate format on its own page.
Match the program to where you’ll work: in Arkansas, Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR pays logisticians most, $83,030 against $78,400 statewide.
Look at demand too: in Arkansas, logisticians grow fastest, +27.4% by 2034.
FAQ
How Many Supply Chain Management Programs Are In Arkansas?
This directory lists seven accredited supply chain programs in Arkansas, at four schools: four bachelor’s, two master’s and one doctorate.
How Much Does A Supply Chain Management Degree Cost In Arkansas?
Stated graduate totals in Arkansas run from $19,572 at University of Arkansas to $30,094 at University of Arkansas. For a bachelor’s in Arkansas, in-state tuition and fees per year run from $7,754 to $10,118, as schools report them to IPEDS.
What Do Supply Chain Managers Make In Arkansas?
In Arkansas, the occupation counting supply chain managers pays a median of $89,200 across 1,440 jobs, against $107,230 nationally.
How Much Do Logisticians Make In Arkansas?
The logistician median in Arkansas is $78,400, across 2,220 jobs. At Arkansas’s price level of 86.9 (U.S. = 100), it buys what $90,180 would nationally.
Which Arkansas Metro Area Pays Supply Chain Workers The Most?
Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR has Arkansas’s highest logistician median, $83,030. Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR pays Arkansas’s managers’ occupation the most, $106,640.
How Does Arkansas Supply Chain Pay Compare With Neighboring States?
Of the 7 states compared with Arkansas, Oklahoma pays logisticians the most, $86,600; Arkansas ranks second at $78,400. After adjusting for prices, Arkansas ranks second.
How Many Logistics Jobs Are In Arkansas?
Census County Business Patterns counts 70,632 transportation and warehousing jobs in Arkansas for 2023, 13,936 of them in warehousing and storage. BLS counts 2,220 Arkansas logisticians, the planners who run those flows.
Which Supply Chain Job Pays The Most In Arkansas?
Purchasing managers earn Arkansas’s highest supply chain median, $156,450, then industrial production managers at $118,120.
Is Supply Chain Management In Demand In Arkansas?
Arkansas’s labor market office expects logisticians in Arkansas to grow 27.4% by 2034, against 16.7% nationally, and Arkansas expects about 740 openings a year across Arkansas’s five core supply chain occupations.
Can Arkansas Residents Get A Tuition Discount At Out-Of-State Schools?
Yes. Arkansas is in ACM. ACM reaches 123 accredited programs outside Arkansas and covers undergraduate and graduate study for Arkansas residents. Before applying, Arkansas students should ask whether ACM covers the program.
Can You Study Supply Chain Management Online In Arkansas?
Three of the seven Arkansas programs list an online format in the accreditor’s record. Of Arkansas’s graduate programs with verified costs, University of Arkansas states an online format.
