Peirce College Overview

Peirce College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia is a great location for students who prefer city over country life.

What Is Peirce College Known For?

• Peirce has an impressive student to faculty ratio of 9 to 1.
• The master's degree is the highest award offered at Peirce.
• In a recent academic period100% of the faculty were full-time.
• After graduation, Peirce bachelor's degree recipients go on to jobs where they make $50,660 a year. That's about 24% more than their peers at other schools.

Where Is Peirce College?

Contact details for Peirce are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	1608 Walnut St., Suite 1900, Philadelphia, PA 19103-5443
Phone:	888-467-3472
Website:	www.peirce.edu

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How Do I Get Into Peirce?

You can apply to Peirce online at: https://forms.peirce.edu/4725674

Since Peirce College has an open admissions policy, you should not have any trouble getting into the school as long as you have a high school diploma or the equivalent.

Can I Afford Peirce College?

Student Loan Debt

While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At Peirce, approximately 67% of students took out student loans averaging $11,824 a year. That adds up to $47,296 over four years for those students.

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Peirce College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 947 undergraduate students at Peirce, with 225 being full-time and 722 being part-time.

There are also 99 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 225 full-time undergraduates at Peirce, 28% are male and 72% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Peirce College students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	8
Black or African American	95
Hispanic or Latino	33
White	52
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	35

Geographic Diversity

Pennsylvania students aren't the only ones who study at Peirce College. At this time, 3 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 8 countries are represented at Peirce. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Sierra Leone, China, and Kazakhstan.

Peirce College Undergraduate Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Basic Certificate	Associate’s	Undergraduate Certificate	Bachelor’s	Graduate Certificate	Master’s	TOTAL
Business Administration & Management	19	18	7	45	4	29	122
Health & Medical Administrative Services	17	14	0	33	0	17	81
Liberal Arts General Studies	0	5	0	36	0	0	41
Computer Information Systems	0	6	0	24	0	0	30
Criminal Justice & Corrections	0	1	0	17	0	0	18
Legal Support Services	2	1	0	14	0	0	17
Information Technology	9	0	0	0	0	0	9
Human Services	0	0	0	8	0	0	8
Human Resource Management	3	0	0	4	0	0	7
Accounting	0	0	0	6	0	0	6
Educational Administration	0	0	0	0	1	4	5
Management Information Systems	0	0	0	4	0	0	4
Finance & Financial Management	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Public Health	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Interdisciplinary Studies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	50	45	7	191	5	50	348

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Image Credit: By BotMultichillT under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.