Peirce College Healthcare Programs

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.

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

How Do I Get Into Peirce?

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

Peirce College has an open admissions policy. This means that the school accepts all applicants assuming that they meet very basic requirements, such as having a high school diploma or 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.

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 Healthcare Concentrations

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

Major	Basic Certificate	Associate’s	Bachelor’s	Master’s	TOTAL
Health Care Management	0	0	24	17	41
Medical Insurance Coding Specialist/Coder	16	0	0	0	16
Health Information/Medical Records Technology/Technician	0	14	0	0	14
Health Information Management	0	0	9	0	9
Medical Insurance Specialist/Medical Biller	1	0	0	0	1
General Public Health	0	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	17	14	33	17	81

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.