August 27, 2004—Peirce College of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, recently graduated its first two students with bachelor’s degrees in business administration with a real estate management concentration as the result of a special partnership with the Chicago-based Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM).
Geraldine Bogan and Rob Crowley share this inaugural honor. Bogan is the Director of Real Estate Services for the Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey, and Crowley is a property manager at Corcoran Management Company, Braintree, Massachusetts. Both had already been awarded IREM’s prestigious Certified Property Manager (CPM) designation and were able to apply the IREM courses required to earn the designation for credit toward their degree.
Similarly, anyone who has successfully completed IREM courses, whether pursuing a designation or not, can receive course credit from Peirce when they enroll in a degree program.
Bogan and Crowley earned their degrees at Peirce by way of distance learning, or the Internet, as a result of the college’s innovative and successful distance learning program, Peirce Online.
Peirce College, located in downtown Philadelphia, is a specialized, four-year institution that grants Bachelor’s and Associate’s degrees in Business Administration, Information Technology, and Paralegal Studies. The College primarily educates working adult learners. Classes are available on campus in the Center City Philadelphia business district; on site, at employer and convenient community locations; and through Peirce Online. For more information, call 888-GO-PEIRCE, extension 9341, or visit Peirce College.
