Brian Finnegan is aware of the glass ceiling that many IT professionals face when they don’t have the proper degree to back up their skills and experience.

Even when IT professionals have extensive on the job training or industry standard certifications, they find that they can only move so far up in the business world without a bachelor’s degrees, said Finnegan, an associate dean at Center City’s Peirce College.

That’s why Peirce launched a new IT program. It’s an effort to offer students a faster, more affordable and more useful path to a bachelor’s degree. Called the CBE (Competency Based Education) Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree program, it will launch in the fall with a cohort of roughly 30.

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