About Us

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 2026, the College has over 2,700 students: 1,950 undergraduates and 750 graduate students. Enrollment has increased by 8% since the Fall 2024 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 2026, we awarded over $650,000 in scholarships to our undergraduate and graduate students.
• We have 5 endowed chairs and eminent scholars and almost 90 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 2026, 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 began serving as Interim Dean in summer 2025 and I will be in this role until - at least - June 30, 2027. This gives me 2 years to do 'dean things' and to make an impact on our students' lives, to help advance our faculty research and to serve the University's mission.

I want to thank the University’s leadership team for giving me the trust and support to lead the University’s largest College. I began my academic career in 1999 and this past year serving as Interim Dean has included some of the best moments of my career. Here are few highlights that have given me immense pride, joy and fulfillment:

• Having a new assistant professor come into my office to brag about getting *another* A* publication!
• Having 39 students - undergrads and graduate students - submit novel research projects for our Inagural Moody Research Showcase in Spring 2026. Thanks for our donors, we were able to award more than $25,000 in cash to these amazing students. One student summed it up perfectly: "It mattered."
• Having 82 students - from all over campus - submit pitches for our Inn-eaux-vate Pitch Competition during Fall 2025. From that amazing group, we narrowed it down to 8 finalists who competed for about $40,000 in seed capital for their new businesses.
• Walking to the home of a couple of retired alums who have supported a scholarship for a few years and seeing a huge pile of "Thank You" letters from the students they have supported over the years. They kept these letters - and cherished every one of them. And after our meeting, they pledge to increase their scholarship support for our students.
• Getting to be on stage at Commencement and congratulating over 1,000 College of Business graduates as they walk into their futures.

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 am continuting this work 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 loving 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 continue working on our big vision ideasy – a student innovation fund, ethics and strategy case competitions, a new Student Ambassadors program, an investment fund for all business majors and bringing in millions of dollars in funded grants for economic development of the region. I want to continue making 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 - because I know the best is yet to come for the B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration.

Thank you sincerely.

Brian Bolton
brian.bolton@louisiana.edu
August 2026