Accounting at Peirce College

If you are interested in studying accounting, you may want to check out the program at Peirce College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Peirce is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and has a total student population of 1,046. Of the 70 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Peirce College in 2021, 8 of them were accounting majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Accounting section at the bottom of this page.

Peirce Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Online Classes Are Available at Peirce

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Peirce does offer online education options in accounting for the following degree levels for those interested in distance learning:

• Bachelor’s Degree

Peirce Accounting Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the accounting progam at Peirce compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The accounting major at Peirce is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Accounting. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
	161
	280
	402
	447
	605
	777
	847
	853
	1,478

How Much Do Accounting Graduates from Peirce Make?

The median salary of accounting students who receive their bachelor's degree at Peirce is $47,491. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 3% higher than the national average of $46,292 for all accounting bachelor's degree recipients.

Accounting Student Demographics at Peirce

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the accounting majors at Peirce College.

Peirce Accounting Bachelor’s Program

Of the 8 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Accounting from Peirce in 2020-2021, 38% were men and 63% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 26% more racial-ethnic minorities in its accounting bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Peirce College with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	2
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Peirce also has a doctoral program available in accounting. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Concentrations Within Accounting

If you plan to be a accounting major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at Peirce College. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Accounting	8

Related Majors

• Management Information Systems
• Human Resource Management
• Business Administration & Management

Careers That Accounting Grads May Go Into

A degree in accounting can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for PA, the home state for Peirce College.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	55,360	$40,660
Accountants and Auditors	51,720	$75,250
Financial Managers	17,730	$156,730
Financial Analysts	11,980	$93,870
Business Professors	5,490	$91,520

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
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By BotMultichillT under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.