DeVry University San Diego Campus

This place is a joke. Don’t waste your time or money especially if you are military or a veteran. They do not take care of any of your VA paperwork and it’s all a fraud. They have no one here that can take charge or admit that they made a mistake. They are lazy and all they care about is money. I am using my GI bill and cannot receive my transcripts to send to another school because they have a $ 3200 bill because they have not submitted anything to the VA. They blame it on Chicago and don’t take care of you. They also change the degrees after you start and don’t tell you.

I earn my BS in Technical Management in December 2014 and also graduated with SALUTE Honors for having a high GPA while on Active duty. My degree led to a promotion in the military six months after graduation and I’ve been able to apply what I’ve learned at work.
I primarily completed online courses but did complete a few campus classes when it worked around my schedule as I work full-​time during the day. All the professors I had were professional, knowledgeable, and well qualified in their respective fields. One of my professors I had my senior year still keeps in contact with me and is someone I consider as my mentor.
My academic advisor and financial counselor were helpful during my time there as well. I was able to graduate with no debt since I paid for my class using TA and the PELL Grant.
One of my favorite benefits of being an alumni is access to the online library (thousands of books, articles, and research studies) and the resume builder. I also receive emails regarding campus functions.
I highly recommend DeVry University to anyone serious in earning a degree.
–2014 DeVry University Alumni, husband, father of three, and Active duty military member.

I’d give this fake ass school no stars if I could. They will make mistakes, which will cause you about $ 3000, but they would be «really sorry» that they can’t fix the problem. But. You still have to pay it or they will hold your transcript making it no way for you to be able to switch to another school. Made several phone calls, spoke to everyone I could, they said they would call back, and nope nothing. I should have reviewed the school before I went there. I guess a lot of students have sued this school and I am in the process of doing so myself.
This is a fake school, with fake professors, and fake classes.

I used to be a student at DeVry and decided that it would be in my best interest to enroll at a University that is more prestigious and recognizable. I didn’t feel like I was in a real university at DeVry. For that reason, I’m currently a student at the University of Phoenix. I haven’t regretted my decision at all!

I love how the professors actually believe in this school and what they are teaching their students. I have had a lot of personal battles along the way to my degree but I have always had the support and understanding of my peers as well as the staff at DeVry. Coming from the military I wasn’t sure I would find the same level of comradery outside in the civilian sector but I have here.

I have been through one session in my first semester with Devry, and I have found the instructors and the staff to be amazingly helpful and enthusiastic about my progress. I look forward to attending my next session and moving forward through my program.

People rip on DeVry about the price and the sales-​y approach, and to them I say: you’re too dumb to go to college anyway.
DeVry University and Keller Graduate School of Management are FOR PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS. They have shareholders, and have to keep their books in the black (for you non-​business people, that means in the positive). The tuition is going to be more than a state school or a community college. Duh.
That being said, I’m a veteran, and I highly recommend this school for others vets who want to pursue one of the degree programs offered. Here’s why:
GI Bill — they accept it.
Yellow Ribbon Program — everyone who needs it, and is eligible, will get it.
E-​Texts — suck it up, get a laptop or a tablet, and revel in the fact that e-​texts are included as part of your class expenses, so you don’t have to pay for them.
Those three things combined mean that DeVry only MAKES you money while you’re there, you won’t have student loans, you won’t have to work (if you go full-​time) and their accelerated programs mean you’ll be done quickly.
I transferred to DeVry in July of 2012 with 56 credits. I graduated with my bachelor’s in January, 2014, and that was after taking two semesters off.
The other upside is that if you want to pursue a master’s, and went to DeVry, Keller will «trade up» four of your undergrad classes into your master’s.
The school has career services for life (not just your first job out of school), and they have 90% successful job placement (in-​field) of all graduates within six months of degree completion. I think it’s even higher for Keller.
That being said, there are some cons:
Some of the teachers and courses really need to be replaced/​revamped. Just because you know about something doesn’t mean you can teach it, and some of the course material is just arbitrary and a waste of time.
The students drove me nuts. Every time I had a group project, at least one person wouldn’t get their portion done, and not only would the rest of us have to make it up, they would still pass the class! That’s a bunch of garbage!
There’s also a lot of students that just don’t belong in college. I’m sorry, but not everyone is smart enough, not everyone is academic enough, and not everyone can be that white collar worker in the corner office. Unless your career goals are actually to be in an office, don’t go to college just for the degree, you’re just watering it down for the rest of us who DO want to do that type of work. If you work with your hands, that’s what you know, and you think a bachelor’s is going to change your life and get you more money, just don’t. That’s not why you go to school.
Working class people that really belong there, they know I’m not referring to them. The ones with the drive, the intelligence, and the skills, they belong there. If you can’t spell or pronounce words over three syllables, get out.
I say it’s a great option for veterans, but there’s a TON that don’t belong there, and as long as they keep passing, the GI Bill will keep giving them money, and DeVry will keep taking it.
I just wish the school had more integrity to require their students actually have math and writing skills, and flunk them out if they can’t handle the curriculum. Stop holding the students’ hands!

I’m graduated from this school. There student services department and student finance department really took time to help my family and I with my finances and my grades. I would like to send a special thank you to Pamela Daly, Matt Wakeman and Erica Olmos for all there moral support through a difficult times. I would like to recommend this school to all my veterans.

Horrible student services. You have to realize that your «success coach» is actually nothing more than a salesperson whose job it is to sell you as many college credits as possible. They also give you a massive run around when it comes to pricing. I’ve been enrolled at Devry for 5 weeks and have been given 4 different cost sheets for this semester.
What has me the most angry is this COMP 100 class I’m taking now. This class is so basic it’s laughable. We spent a week learning about what a folder is and how to copy/​paste. My academic advisers did not tell me that it was possible to test out of classes. They intentionally withheld this information from me so as to milk every possible dollar out of me. When I confronted her about this her responses was that I should have read page 121 in the student handbook. I expect that kind of BS «read the fine print «trickery from a used car salesman, not an academic adviser.
Right now I’m on the verge of disenrolling.
ps…if anybody wants I will post my entire unedited correspondence with the people at Devry who swindled me out of over a $ 1,000 by intentionally withholding information from me.

Really now. I knew the day I walked into the admissions advisors office that I was doing the wrong thing; the hairs were standing up on the back of my neck and my wallet seemed to be pounding in my back pocket.
But I let them talk me into it. $ 50,000.00-$ 60,000.00 for a 3-​year computer science degree may seem like a lot to most people and it did seem like a lot to me, but as my most recent salary is $ 180,000./year, repaying $ 60,000.00 after I finished school did not seem like such a large chunk, especially since I would be potentially earn more with a degree than I do without one. Based on this prelimiary $ 60,000.00 figure, I decided to give Devry a try and started in the Spring semester/​March 7, 2008.
At first everything seemed to go well and I actually kinda liked it. But then the bills started to arrive in my second week of class. Right away I realized there was a problem. According to these first bills, a year at Devry was going to cost well over $ 30,000.00 meaning the final degree price could not possibly be only $ 60,000.00. I started to ask questions immediately and came up against many brick walls. The counselors and admissions people have all been trained not to give out any information. It is a finely choreographed plan to milk as much money out of each student as possible. I really doubt that two students end up finishing anywhere near the same final cost at Devry.
It only took me a single semester and one class to realize what Devry was about. There is no easy way to education and no shortcuts. Devry is nothing more than a paper mill. If you just do a little research here on the internet then you will find thousands of complaining and unhappy students as well as a long history of legal cases against Devry for the same kinds of things I am complaining about here. There was even a major class action suit against them in Canada from graduates alleging that their Devry degree did not stand up against degrees from legitimate colleges in the work force.
Do yourself a favor and avoid being victimized like thousands and thousands of others. Go to a real school.