BATON ROUGE — A state audit of the LSU System shows the university’s financial situation improved by hundreds of millions of dollars despite a drop in tuition revenue.
LSU finished the 2025 fiscal year up $332 million from 2024 thanks to an increase in non-operating revenue, according to the audit, which became a public record Monday.
The audit says that while operating expenses increased by $28 million, and that the university system had $559 million in state appropriations, $96 million in gifts and $160 million in net investment income…