Peirce College Business Programs

Peirce College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The location of Peirce is great for students who prefer living in an urban area.

Peirce College Rankings

Our rankings are based on an outcomes-based approach rather than subjective ones used by other media outlets. As such, we utilize data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the College Scorecard, among other sources. Visit our rankings and methodology section to learn more.

Program Level Awards

These are highlights of some of the most noteworthy awards granted to specific programs at Peirce.

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#170	Best Value Business Administration & Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Awards From Around the Web

The following table lists some notable awards Peirce has earned from around the web.

Rank	Ranking Name	Source
#141	Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Business Administration and Management	College Factual
#155	Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Business Administration & Management	College Factual
#159	Highest Paid Bachelor’s Degree General Business Administration and Management Graduates	College Factual

Where Is Peirce College?

Contact details for Peirce are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	1420 Pine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102-4699
Phone:	888-467-3472
Website:	https://www.peirce.edu
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/PeirceCollege
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/peircecollege

How Do I Get Into Peirce?

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

As long as you submit the requested materials to Peirce College when applying, you shouldn't have to worry about getting in since the school has an open admissions policy.

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 29% of students took out student loans averaging $3,804 a year. That adds up to $15,216 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Peirce is 9.2%. This is about the same as the national default rate of 10.1%.

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.

Online Learning at Peirce College

In 2019-2020, 1,046 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at Peirce has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 12th most popular in Pennsylvania for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Affordability Rankings of Peirce

During the most recent year for which we have data, the full-time undergraduate tuition at Peirce College was $15,060 for both in-state and out-of-state students. The following table shows how Peirce is ranked for affordability for both in-state and out-of-state students among colleges and universities that are not mostly online.

Major	Tuition for In-State Students	Tuition for Out-of-State Students
Organizational Leadership	#25	#16
Management Information Systems	#58	#19
General Management Information Systems	#58	#19
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	#73	#55

Online Affordability Rankings of Peirce Rankings

During the most recent year for which we have data, the full-time undergraduate tuition at Peirce College was $15,060 for both in-state and out-of-state students. The following table shows how Peirce is ranked for affordability for both in-state and out-of-state students among colleges and universities that are mostly online.

Major	Tuition for In-State Students	Tuition for Out-of-State Students
General Management Information Systems	#55	#55
Management Information Systems	#61	#61

Online Growth Rankings of Peirce

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Peirce College was 10.3%. This is the #668 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at Peirce regardless of major.

The table below shows how the average growth rate over 4 years at Peirce ranks compared to all other mostly online schools that offer a specific major.

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Customer Service Management	#6
General Management Information Systems	#87
Management Information Systems	#104
Organizational Leadership	#123
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	#188
Human Resource Management	#219
Accounting	#250
Accounting	#433

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

Peirce College Business Concentrations

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

Major	Basic Certificate	Associate’s	Bachelor’s	Master’s	TOTAL
General Business Administration and Management	0	20	31	0	51
Organizational Leadership	0	1	22	21	44
Accounting	0	0	8	0	8
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	2	0	6	0	8
General Management Information Systems	0	0	3	0	3
Customer Service Management	2	0	0	0	2
TOTAL	4	21	70	21	116

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.