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Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Baton Rouge, LAPublic SACSCOC

AACSB business

LSU's E. J. Ourso College of Business houses the Department of Accounting, which offers a Bachelor of Science in Accounting, a Master of Accountancy and a PhD in Accounting at the Baton Rouge campus.

Verified degree programs

2 programs verified so far (1 bachelor's, 1 master's). The school may offer more programs than we have verified; certificates are not listed as degrees.

Accreditation

  • Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC)

    Institutional accreditation — accredited · since July 1, 1913 · next review 06/01/2030

    Recognized by: U.S. Department of Education

    Source: ope.ed.gov · verified October 10, 2026

Business-school accreditation

  • AACSB — accreditedUnit: E. J. Ourso College of BusinessConfirmed in the accreditor's own directory.Source: aacsb.edu · verified October 26, 2026

Supplemental accounting accreditation

No separate accounting accreditation is on record. AACSB business accreditation does not mean the accounting program holds AACSB accounting accreditation.

Institutional, business-school and accounting accreditation are three different things, and one never implies another. Each record names its unit and scope as the source gives it.

Research centers, labs and student groups

As described on the school's own pages.

Online student services

Services the university publishes for online students. Availability can depend on program and enrollment status.

Online student services: not verified. We publish this only when the institution states it on an official page.

Offerings we reviewed but do not list

This directory lists associate, bachelor's, master's and PhD programs in its subjects. These offerings were checked against official pages and fall outside that scope (certificates, associate degrees, electives-only degrees…).
  • Internal Auditing minorMinor, not a degree program.Source: lsu.edu · verified October 30, 2026

Institution

Official name
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Control
Public
Source: nces.ed.gov · verified October 10, 2026
Main location
156 Thomas Boyd Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-2750
Source: nces.ed.gov · verified October 10, 2026
Students enrolled exclusively in distance education
4,347 of 39,418 students (Fall 2023)
Source: nces.ed.gov · verified October 10, 2026

Sources

Last verified October 26, 2026. Program facts and their sources are on each program page.
  1. IPEDS 2024–25 Institutional Characteristics (HD2024), via College Navigator — U.S. Department of Education dataset (IPEDS / DAPIP), verified October 10, 2026
  2. IPEDS Fall 2023 enrollment by distance-education status (EF2023A_DIST) — U.S. Department of Education dataset (IPEDS / DAPIP), verified October 10, 2026
  3. DAPIP — SACSCOC institutional accreditation record (data files downloaded 2026-10-10) — U.S. Department of Education dataset (IPEDS / DAPIP), verified October 10, 2026
  4. lsu.edu/business/accounting/bs-accounting.php — Official program page, verified October 30, 2026
  5. lsu.edu/business/accounting/master-accountancy.php — Official program page, verified October 30, 2026
  6. lsu.edu/business/accounting/phd-accounting.php — Official program page, verified October 30, 2026

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