<p>Well, this depends a lot on you and your finances.</p>
<p>Arkansas has two main university systems, the University of Arkansas (great school) and Arkansas State University. Both of those are likely to be the most affordable options for you if your parents are residents of AR, which is likely. They are also massive state universities, so you are unlikely to frequently run across many people from your high school unless you want to.</p>
<p>There are also Henderson State, Arkansas Tech and Southern Arkansas, which are also affordable options for you but smaller public university campuses. Henderson State is a public liberal arts university that is the size of many small LACs, and Southern Arkansas is even smaller than that. So you have a variety of options to choose from in your own home state: large flagship public, medium-sized publics and small universities.</p>
<p>If you are an exceptional student with high test scores and good grades, plus extracurricular activities, you may be able to earn merit aid at great universities or LACs outside of AR. Or maybe your parents have enough money saved, or are wealthy enough, that they can pay for most or all of the cost for you to attend a private or OOS public university elsewhere.</p>
<p>Most college students attend college relatively close to home, and at least in their own state. There’s no shame in that - that’s what public universities are for, for educating the residents of a state at low cost.</p>