LSUCIA Mission Statement
Unparalleled International Quality Education

The LSUCIA is a continuous improvement model seeking new ways to deliver academic instruction and bring real-world best practices to its students.  Future instruction will consist of activity-based learning designed to prepare auditors that can add value, facilitate change, assess risk, and improve risk management and business processes.

General Description

• In 1985 the IIA designated LSU as the pilot school to develop Internal Audit Education.
  
  
• The LSU Center for Internal Auditing has been the international leader in internal audit education since its inception in 1985.
  
  
• Eleven LSUCIA courses are offered each year.
  
• Several departments within the college offer a concentration in Internal Auditing, include ISDS, Finance, Marketing, Accounting, MBA, as well as Environmental Management.
  
  
• LSUCIA enrollment grew to 300 in 2007 with increase emphasis on international diversity and non-business students.
  
  
• To date, more than 1,800 students have been placed in internships, 80 of whom were placed during the 2009-2010 academic year.
  
  
• More than 80 practitioners visited class during the last year to provide instructional support and guidance on real-world issues.
  
  
• Students in the LSUCIA have recieved the "Student CIA Highest Achievement Award" sixteen times in the last eighteen years for the highest score on the international CIA Exam.