Sam M. Walton College of Business

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.