ACBSP reaffirmed its accreditation of Peirce College’s Business Administration and Accounting programs following a comprehensive self-study in 2012 and biannual Quality Assurance (QA) reports submitted in 2016 and 2018. Areas of assessment include student and stakeholder satisfaction, measurement of student learning and organizational performance.

2018 Accounting QA Standards 4 & 6
2018 Business Administration QA Standards 4 & 6

2016 Accounting QA Report
2016 Business Administration QA Report

Peirce College utilizes Peregrine Academic Services, a nationally normed, summative assessment for Business Administration academic programs that are used for internal and external programmatic evaluation. The assessment service is specifically designed to address ACBSP accreditation requirements related to learning outcomes assessment, quality assurance and external academic benchmarking. Peirce student scores typically mirror those of their counterpoints enrolled in other ACBSP-accredited programs. Results are used to monitor trends and identify areas of curricular review. Follow the links below to read more about the Peregrine results for Peirce College students.

Accounting Bachelor’s Level Assessment
Business Administration Bachelor’s Level Assessment
Business Administration Associate Level Assessment

Peirce College has targeted and successfully supported the non-traditional student for over 150 years.  Seventy-eight percent of Peirce undergraduates are age 25 or over. Most come to Peirce as transfer students and attend part-time. Many are from working-class backgrounds for whom a college education was not feasible immediately after high school. Enrollment and graduation data, as well as general information on Peirce College can be located at the College Navigator and at the College’s Consumer Information and Compliance webpage.

The following reports show recent trends in Peirce College business student persistence: time to degree completion and a 90 percent persistence rate from the associate to the bachelor’s degree.

Time to Degree Completion
Associate to Bachelor’s Degree Persistence