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Welcome to the B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration - the largest college at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, a Carnegie R! University!

  • As of Fall 2025, the College has over 2,800 students: 1,960 undergraduates and 860 graduate students. Enrollment has increased by 6% for the Fall 2025 semester.
  • Our Business and Accounting programs are each accredited by AACSB, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business; we are only 1 of fewer than 200 business schools in the world to have this elite dual accreditation.
  • In 2025, we awarded over $630,000 in scholarships to our undergraduate and graduate students.
  • We have 5 endowed chairs and eminent scholars and almost 100 endowed professorships that help our faculty create world-changing research and lead life-changing programming on campus - all thanks to our generous donors who have invested in the future of the College and our students.

Undergraduate students pursue a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) degree. We offer majors in eight areas of business: accounting; economics; finance; hospitality management; insurance and risk management; management; marketing; and professional land and resource management.

Graduate degrees are offered for Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration/Health Care Administration, and Master of Science in Accounting. Graduate Certificate in Business Administration, Post Master's Health Care Administration Certificate, and Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Accounting are also available.

In Fall 2025, our first-year students come from 46 states and 82 countries; 90% of these students are from Louisiana and 30% are first-generation students. The B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration is proud to welcome these students to campus and looks forward to helping them change their lives at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Message from the Interim Dean

I am Brian Bolton and I am honored to become the Interim Dean of the B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

I want to thank the University’s leadership team for giving me the trust and support to lead the University’s largest College. And I want to thank newly retired Dean Linda Nichols, who led our College for the past 5 years through two AACSB re-accreditation reviews and through unprecedented economic turbulence; Dean Nichols’ steady countenance and committed vision was exactly what the College needed these past five years. She now gets to enjoy retirement on the beach in Florida with her grandchildren – and she has earned every bit of that peace and joy.

I joined UL Lafayette in 2019 and have served as the Dwight W. Andrus, Jr. / BoRSF Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Finance for 6+ years. In May 2025, the University awarded me with the inaugural Lagniappe Award for Leadership & Collaboration, recognizing the innovative and meaningful work I led in the College and across campus. I hope this work can continue with even greater impact during my time as Interim Dean.

As a scholar, I have spent the past 20+ years researching corporate governance, or the ways in which organizational leaders increase the value of their organizations and create a return on investment for their stakeholders. I now get to practice what I’ve been preaching. I now get to see if I can make 2 + 2 = 5 (you know, legally). I am super excited.

Please click here to read my bio, to learn about my academic accomplishments and to see a summary of my curriculum vitae.

I am looking forward to the day-to-day activities of being a dean – communicating with stakeholders, working with faculty to innovate our curriculum, creating interdisciplinary programming with partners across campus and in the community. I am eager to get to work on turning some big vision ideas into reality – a student innovation fund, an investment fund for all business majors, bringing in millions of dollars in funded grants for economic development of the region. I want to help make innovation and creativity the core identities of the College – because those are the core identities of the University and of Louisiana. And I want to help our amazing students achieve their dreams.

While I serve as Interim Dean, I am going to continue leading the personal financial planning and collaborative research awards work that has become so important to me. And I am going to continue engaging in my research and teaching 1 or 2 classes a semester - because research and teaching are in my blood (along with dangerous amounts of chocolate and cheese).

Most of all, I am looking forward to working with you to help make the B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration the best business school in Louisiana and one of the most respected business schools in the world. Our students deserve nothing less.

Please join me in this journey. And feel free to let me know how we can achieve the future we all want for the College.

Thank you sincerely.

Brian Bolton
brian.bolton@louisiana.edu
September 2025