Members of the Board of Regents Kentucky State University Frankfort, Kentucky

Secretary of Finance and Administration Cabinet of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

We have audited the accompanying financial statements of the business-type activities of Kentucky State University (the University) as of and for the years ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, and the related notes to the financial statements which collectively comprise the University's basic financial statements as listed on the table of contents. We have also audited the financial statements of the Kentucky State University Foundation, Inc. (the Foundation), the University's discretely presented component unit, as of and for the year ended June 30, 2013.

Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of these financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America; this includes the design, implementation, and maintenance of internal control relevant to the preparation and fair presentation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We did not audit the financial statements of the Foundation, which represents 100% percent, of the assets, net assets, and revenues of the discreetly presented component unit as required by Statement No. 39 of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, as of June 30, 2012 and for the year then ended. Those financial statements were audited by other auditors, whose report thereon has been furnished to us, and our opinion, insofar as it relates to the amounts included for the Foundation, is based solely on the report of the other auditors. We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America and the standards applicable to financial audits contained in Government Auditing Standards, issued by the Comptroller General of the United States. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement.

An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor's judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to the entity's preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the entity's internal control. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.