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DeVry Inc. is a for-profit educational institution with 90 locations across North America and an extensive online network. It offers undergraduate and graduate programs in various fields, including information systems, business administration, and engineering. The university has faced lawsuits alleging misleading advertising, but it is accredited by the Commission on Higher Learning of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools in the US.
DeVry Inc. is an international educational institution headquartered in North America. It is one of the largest publicly traded for-profit learning organizations in the world and is the parent company of the DeVry Institute of Technology and DeVry University. The organization provides higher education to the student population at 90 locations across North America and DeVry University’s extensive online network. Opportunities for students include business, technology, science, business and the arts. DeVry hosts the world’s largest Online University.
Also the parent company of Apollo College, Western Career College and Ross University, DeVry Inc. it is home to major campuses in Calgary, Arlington, Columbus, Kansas City, Orlando, Phoenix, Long Beach and Houston, among many others. The University offers undergraduate and graduate programs in a variety of disciplines and offers a semester-long class schedule for students. For students who attend classes year-round, a bachelor’s degree can be earned in about three years.
DeVry University is known for its classes in information systems, business administration, communications, and engineering. They also offer various certificate programs in many fields of information technology, including office management and healthcare information. Its master’s programs include public administration, project management, human resource management, and accounting and financial management.
DeVry Corporation was founded in 1931 as the DeForest Training School in Chicago. This early school is named after Lee DeForest, an American inventor with over 180 patents in the first half of the 1900’s. DeForest was a close friend of Herman A. DeVry, founder of the DeVry educational institutions.
DeVry was expanded to include locations in Canada in 1956, and since then locations have been established in North America to serve a student population of over 65,000. In 1987, the Keller Graduate School was incorporated, with the Deaconess College of Nursing in 2005. Becker Professional Review, another sub-institution of DeVry Inc., was added in the same year, providing the University with a number of training resources for CPA.
According to the university’s official website, the average time to find a field-related job after graduation is six months, and more than half of Fortune 100 companies employ DeVry graduates. Since 1995, however, several lawsuits have been filed by alumni claiming misleading advertising. The lawsuits alleged that students were not prepared for jobs after leaving university and that educational quality at the university was sub-standard. The university is accredited by the Commission on Higher Learning of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools in the United States.
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