DeVry University Reviews

Erica of Sunrise, FL I can't help but wonder who your professor was and if this has happened to more than one student. I wonder if we all have the option to band together to do something. I am not even sure how we can all reach out to each other. I also have my proof including DeVry IT department proof as well. I am still with DeVry and very blessed my new Professor is amazing. My professor from HIT 141 was awful and the Dr. reviewing my complaint is all one sided and let me tell you it’s not my side.

Within the past few months, I have received four different e-mails saying that my financial awards have changed. Now, I do have to say that I was taking one class at a time, until I was told I could receive more financial aid if I took two classes at a time from July 2017 to December 2017, and I would be finished with my degree (at this point I had 6 classes left). I was told that they looked into the class schedule and everything would work out, and I could take two classes at a time to receive more student aid, and finish my bachelor's degree in December 2017. My July 2017 classes were right on schedule, and I was taking the two classes at one time as promised. My next semester starts (about five weeks ago from 11/24/17), and I was told my time status is now being dropped from 3/4 time to 1/2 time because the two classes I was promised I could take at the same time are no longer available.

I am not taking one class at a time, and now my Bachelor's degree will not be done until February 2018. This is not what I was promised, I was promised my Bachelor's degree would be completed in December 2017. I received a credit balance back of about $8,500 dollars from the final disbursement of the Sallie Mae loan, and the federal loan. I received a call from my student advisor in the next week stating that I owed DeVry $8,821 dollars. He said DeVry overpaid me my financial aid, and I owe them the money. I told him I did not have the money, as I received the credit, and used up most of it on medical bills, and debt that I had owed to people and businesses due to what I had to buy for school. DeVry told me that the money would not be going back onto the Sallie Mae loan, or back onto the federal loans, but that I just owed DeVry that money.

My financial aid awards showed the correct amount of what money was dispersed from Sallie Mae and the federal loans, until the new financial aid award came in the middle of November 2017. This new financial aid statement said that the private loan was only $10,526, and that was it. Sallie Mae approved a $19,500 dollar private loan because of what DeVry had told them. DeVry told Sallie Mae that $19,500 was the max that could be taken out. Now, I am not going to pay on my student loans twice, meaning I am not giving DeVry the money they "say I owe", and cannot even give me a good explanation as to why. I am not going to give DeVry the money, and then still owe money on the Sallie Mae loan. If I truly owe money to Sallie Mae or the federal loans, they can contact me directly. I have contacted the federal trade commission about this as well.

I was promised that everything was going to be okay, and promised that I could take two classes until I graduated in December. This is an issue because if I was 3/4 time this semester, I do not believe there would have been an issue. I was also told by my advisor that if I was to take another class on top of my last class, I could keep the credit money (which does not make sense). The advisor told me I would have to pay the tuition for the one class, which is about $1,922, but I could not do that because it would start another degree. I believe that DeVry University is trying to pull extortion onto the students that are close to graduating. I know I am not the only one out there with this complaint.

The money that DeVry states I owe them, is something they did! DeVry stated that I could keep the extra funds while taking two classes at a time, and DEVRY are the ones who changed my Sallie Mae loan to the amount they did. I had no control over the finance department, that was their job. I do not control their finance department, nor do I state how much money I am going to get back. It is not right that DeVry changed my student finance awards four times since an agreement was made on my account of the classes I could take.

I was promised I could take two classes at a time and be done in December, but now I have to wait until February, and I might not even be able to finish my degree and become an attorney like I want because of this mess! DeVry should have known way ahead of time how much money I needed to complete my degree, and not wait until the last minute! I have warned DeVry I will contact an attorney, if needed. I do have a few attorneys to call and speak with, as this wouldn't be the first lawsuit they have had.

I can't submit to my company and the school said, “No”. I am stuck with the grade, $1,200 for a glorified resume career class. As of today I am no longer a student at Devry. I will enroll at another college, finish my degree elsewhere. I may be only person so the school probably doesn't care that I leave. Social media and filing a complaint plus informing the 15,000 co-workers at my company of my experience is justice. This was really beyond my control. I have emails to back up my claim.

I also found new friends and other people that I can relate to. The classes and groups make DeVry a great college because the software that is used and depending on what degree you are going for, is all up to date. DeVry teaches the students how to use the technology that is used in today's workforce. This gives the student a better chance at landing that career that they have in mind or what they want to do after they have completed the entire courses for the degree that they are going after. I already have what I want to do lined up after completing my degree. I am thinking about enrolling into the Master's program but I have not made my mind up about that as of yet. If I do make that choice, DeVry will be the college I go with.

Now my Advanced Oracle DB teacher was great... But that's the only teacher that really stands out for me. My Linux teacher (year 2004) talked more about his time in the military in Argentina than anything else and I needed to research the material myself and help other students in lab because his instruction and materials (software) didn't work. Their financial aid departments offer "scholarships" which is their term for giving you a slight discount if you sign up for a full load, which is NOT a scholarship.

Their transcript evaluation department would not give me credit for my Sr. project that I had taken years earlier, and their excuse was "it's too old" when they gave me credit for classes that were older (eventually I got credit for this class but it took months of back and forth). Their job placement services are just as incompetent. When I tried to sign up with them they were showing me leads that were over 10 year old, then when that got fixed they were showing me jobs that weren't in my major.

When you call a specific location they will route you to another location so you're never quite sure where you're calling. Any significant decision needs to get filtered through their corporate office in Illinois, which makes the whole process excruciatingly difficult. I have been going to DeVry on and off for about 17 years (due to taking many years in between to work in industry) and have seen departments get eliminated and moved to corporate causing countless hours of frustration for me trying to get simple questions answered.

If you like spending hours and hours on the phone with people who will constantly misunderstand you and who are not capable of helping you DeVry is for you. If you like overpaying for an education that will not allow you to compete with other job applicants competing for the same jobs, DeVry is for you. Do yourself a favor and pick a state college, you'll pay less and get a superior education.

After getting the OKAY, another consoler named Brandon ** was also helpful. He was there to help me step by step of how to get reapplied for classes, the information I needed to fill out online documents, the works. Working with my busy schedule, we were able to get all the needed information in within 72 hours. He literally bent over backward for me. I owe them my degree for all that they have done for me. I can't help but thank DeVry for everything. Instead of going to college for 4 years, I can get my degree in half the time. Sure it's all online and the classes are very quick, but for me being a scatterbrain, it keeps me on track. There are no shortcuts; it’s straight to the point. I would highly recommend DeVry for people with busy schedules and want to better themselves. It's helping me get one step closer to becoming a Police Officer, and have a better and stress-free life for myself. This is from the heart. I meant every word I said.

Because the housing allowance did not come in and delay of tuition by the 5th week, I've been hit with so many bank insufficient funds beyond more than what I can catch up now with my budgeted living expenses. It's also very hard for us military to be always concerned that there is a balance due because tuition assistance doesn't come in till the 5th week. This causes a lot of stress, it has severely affected my sleep patterns and my work performance at my job. Everytime I would try to initiate my lessons, all I could think of was the balance hanging over my head. This is highly unusual for the past 2 years at community college, I never had this much stress affecting me because right on the beginning of the 1st week of each and every term, the school already was paid on the tuition, and I too have received my housing allowance to cover my living expenses and anything else I'm short on for school expenses.

I'm currently debating whether or not I should even continue to the November term after all the financial stress DeVry has caused me for incompetent Administrative personnel causing delay of my VA tuition and housing allowance benefits, severely affecting me with heavy stress, poor work performance, and just unable to function normally as a student when I have this financial burden caused unto me and affecting my classes, my GPA, getting dropped on one class, and unable to concentrate on the remaining class causing me to fail. Hybrid and campus classes should not be heavily reliant on doing assignments and lectures online, we are losing the traditional learning for those that are more comfortable in a campus class, activities, lectures, and assignments.

Online should be available for further resources, but not to be required heavily for student participation. Back in 1997 when DeVry was still a great school, there were professors who gives lectures as well as hands-on technology and computer terminals as well as hardware right there in the classroom. I highly praised DeVry and my PSCYCHOLOGY 101 class back then as I had learned more from that Professor in 2 weeks than any professors I've met after him to the present time. Now, DeVry has chosen to just have professors talk, write on the board and hopefully students take notes. THIS NO LONGER CONNECTS THE PROFESSORS TO THEIR STUDENTS, instead it's no longer interactive, no longer personal, no immediate professor who you can raise your hand to and ask for assistance or guidance, instead students are forced to do research online, use online school softwares.

I THINK DEVRY SHOULD JUST REPLACE PROFESSORS WITH ROBOTS AND COMPUTERS. Gone are the professors of old who are able to awaken a student’s mind, instead they are lectured in campus if available sometimes not as solid a lecture as expected, even with that, there isn't much hands-on in campuses now compared to my first time in DeVry back in 1997 with CIS courses. Now they just keep pushing for online, as if all the learning a student can get is now solely from online. If that was the case then DeVry should just be strictly online and no longer campus, because it has changed so much. Do not have your professors force students to find everything and do everything online, not very many find that as educational. We’re all different individuals, and a school can't just stereotype every student and expect them to learn online more than from traditional lectures, activities, and campus assignments.

The career services are complete joke. They say they commit 6 months in job placement but, what they really do is randomly call bi weekly asking if you got hired yet and if they can help with mock interviews/resume help. Then after 6 months they will drop you and your history to them even if you never get hired anywhere. The graduation/alumni benefits are also another joke. Life insurance and health insurance savings, retail discounts and tuition discount. Read the small print and you will see why it is a complete ripoff joke. DeVry university overall is a diploma mill scam. Please do not attend there.

I get enrolled and go through all the steps to start class in the next 2 weeks. I do my financial aid consultation for what I have left and how the year, September 2017 to May 2018, will get financed. They advised me I wouldn't have to pay anything with what I had in Financial Aid the first semester, but a small balance the second semester. I was fine with it. The time goes by, classes start, and my financial aid still isn't ironed out. I called and spoke with about 6 different advisors, got up the totem pole to one of the assistant student central directors. Because at this point, the aid they applied for and what's on my account doesn't match what was discussed and sent to me in writing. I talk to them all, I get the runaround. A couple told me due to federal regulations it had to be dispersed a certain way and what I was told and agreed to was just an estimate.

So now I have a balance to pay the first and second semester when I was initially supposed to be credited a balance of about $900 the first semester. At this point I'm livid, and believe this is another scam school. So I start saying I'm going to report them and they lied to me. So the student director gets on the phone, along with one of their higher up financial aid reps. I'm told that it was a mistake and what I was told about federal regulations was a misunderstanding and that I'll get the initial financial aid plan that was discussed and agreed upon, plus a grant for the second semester on $1,350 to cover and balance in spring. Now does that sound fishy to you? Because it sure does to me.

Mind you, I've been abstaining from class the entire first week until Friday just in case I had to withdraw, so these crooks wouldn't be able to charge me a cent, assignments are due by Sunday too by the way. I said I wanted it all in writing and a guarantee it was going to be how it should be. They send me an email, give me their assurances, etc. So I begin classes and work my butt off to try and catch up so I don't fall behind and lose points for late work. Unfortunately I couldn't catch up on their ridiculous Critical Thinking and Problem Solving class because it was writing intensive and my other class was Math which took up a lot of time.

So it's now week two, I'm caught up in Math, only said hi and my name in a discussion forum for the other. I'm behind, I have a family, job, and life outside of this, so I decide to drop the class. I spoke with financial aid to go over my funding, which still has yet to be applied, and go over how the drop would affect my aid. Only thing I'm getting is Pell and Direct Loans, so realistically me withdrawing from the one class for the session only decreases my Pell and I'm considered a 3/4ths time student. I'm told my loans will stay the same, and I will be refunded for the tuition charge for that class... Minus 20%. I about lose it on the financial aid lady, she tells me it's because it's the second week and that's the percentage. I proceed to tell her that I have done nothing in that class, no assignments, because Devry couldn't get my financial plan worked out correctly.

She then looks over it and mentioned the discussion forum I "participated" in on September 1st. I told her it was just an introduction of me saying hi and my name, that's literally it. She says it counts as participation, but since I didn't do anything or log into the course since, that they can withdraw me for only a 10% cost for 1st week drop. It was a 3 credit hour course at $487.20/credit hour. Do the math, me saying my name and "Hi", cost me $200 if you include their non-refundable administrative charge. I almost didn't agree until she said if I wait it goes up to 75% total course cost to withdraw in week 3, and that was only a couple days away. So I just said ok, I disagree, but withdraw me because I'm not going to be playing catch-up and get a worse grade for some ridiculous class because of what was originally Devry’s mistake and hold up.

Now it's the end of week 3. The class was finally removed and I see a credit of $1,270 on my statement. My financial aid is still not where it was agreed it should be at, though, and I'm waiting for them to apply for disbursement of my loans. That is, IF they do what they say they would. This place will end up no better than ITT or any of the other for profits. Then again, DeVos is in office and seems to be allowing these predatory colleges free reign to milk the economy and taxpayers dry. As far as I'm concerned, they've lied multiple times about the aid, with multiple reps giving multiple versions of what type of aid I was getting. Contradicting what the other would say. Now I'm relegated to deal only with the one higher up aid rep, because she "knows what's going on", so I'm told. I'm not to speak with any other financial aid rep.

This college is a joke, the online program is a joke from all I've seen to date. I don't know how they achieved regional or ABET accreditation. What I do know, is that they have been deceitful, unforthcoming, and seemingly unknowledgeable about procedures. Oh and by the way, they barely accepted 1/3rd of my ITT credits, even though it's an almost exact program match with class overlap. Don't be fooled, they don't care about you, they care about getting your money, that's why they're FOR PROFIT.

They might talk nice and ask about your future, but it's all a rouse to get you in. Then they can charge you a couple hundred to say hi in a class, or backtrack on what was agreed upon for your finances. Unless of course you call them out on their mistakes and talk with multiple reps whom all contradict one another, then you can get a Devry grant to appease you and keep your mouth closed on their mistake. I was stupid to even consider going here after going to the now defunct ITT from 2011 to 2013. Oh and don't forget about their $100 million dollar fine they had to pay out last year in 2016 for defrauding and making false claims to students, giving incentives to admission reps for getting people in there.

I transferred schools to finish my degree with Strayer and they took very few of my credits. I spend another $40,000 with Strayer all because DeVry would not let me retake courses as agreed upon. This school is outrageous after they get nearly $50,000 of your loan money. Absurd! They have done this to other students that eventually would fall short of their financial aid.

In May of this year, they told me that my Federal Aid paid too much for tuition, this is supposed to kick back as a credit to me, right? No, they said they sent back $317 to the loaner. So because of them sending back my "overpay", books that I purchased for $275 in May were not covered. Had they credited my account as they should have, my books would have been covered. So this left me with a balance of $275. They assured me that when my Financial Aid dispersed in July the balance would be covered and that it would also leave me a nice credit as well.

Jump forward to July, my financial aid is set to disperse and the numbers on my account are jumping around like jumping beans. I have been on the phone with someone different every day for two weeks. First my $275 balance jumped to $580 for no visible reason. Then they told me that it was because they had to send back the $317 in May. So I'm paying for them sending back funds? They say "Oh, no, it's not like that." But if it's coming out of my credit kickback, it's me paying for it, right? Why am I covering a Federal Aid return anyway? So then it jumps to a $600+ balance on my account. Why? Where did this sudden increase come from? There is no explanation this time. I am just simply assured that my credit will come through for the amount I am seeing right then, which was a great credit.

This morning, I wake up to almost the entirety of my credit gone. Just wiped away. I call in and they tell me it's because over $900 of my May session wasn't covered by Federal Aid. So they had to take that from my July Aid. Over $900 that has NEVER, not ONCE been shown or mentioned until today. And if Aid didn't cover the $900+ in May, why did they send back the $317 "for overpay"? Where is this money going? Where are they getting these numbers? They're stealing our money. But because they have control of the numbers that go into and get changed around in the system, they can get away with it. They know that they have high paid lawyers to back them, they can lie about whatever they want and get away with it. I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH, DO NOT GO TO THIS SCHOOL!!!

Guess what, I'm calling the Department of Education to get my money back from those two classes I took and calling an attorney as well. Please do not choose this school. They are out to get your money then put you out to the trash like you are a dog. Beware... beware, beware, DO NOT ATTEND THIS SCHOOL!!! THEY ARE JUST LIKE EVEREST UNIVERSITY who went down. Stay away, stay away from this school.

Professors were absolutely amazing, thorough, and prompt. Since I have graduated I have received very nice job offers and still work closely with a career advisor; as that is just another benefit Devry offers once you complete your degree program. During my program I also received scholarships from Devry that helped finance my education without having to pay it back. I would definitely recommend an online program to anyone trying to juggle work, children, and life as well as pursuing an education. I am sure there are many colleges that offer this, but personally Devry was the perfect option for me. I can proudly say that I am the only person in my family that now has a college degree, thanks to Devry.

"Thank you. That is all I needed, you to communicate that to me so we could close your application, instead of me working on your application, and asking you all these weeks about registration, when there was no need to. It could have saved us both time looking for you and you having to get all these calls and questions about it. I will close your application today. We wish you all the best at NVCC. As long as you found a good fit for you, that is what matters." I guess she was mad she wasn't getting her little commission or whatever. I'm so glad I will not be going there. They seem desperate and greedy!

I live in a small area where people keep their jobs so these were going to be few far in between, so I called the Career service, gave them my resume, told them I was willing to relocate. Emails went back and forth but NEVER got me ANY interviews, now come on, I am willing to relocate and you find me NOTHING??? Graduated in 2012... now 2017... and I do not even work in that career... Even if I wanted to apply I would need to get additional education just to be able to know what to do anymore. I really hope this lawsuit brings justice to me and others they did this too... I can't afford to pay my loans... I'm just sick.

15 minutes later at 1:11pm I received a call from an admissions representative who was apologetic named John ** stating there was a system error. After hanging up with this admissions employee 10 minutes later I received another email, thanking me for completing the admissions processes and speaking with an admissions representative about setting up a password.

I immediately tried to call this person back. The call went to his voicemail. I left a very interesting message about my disappointment in this fraudulent behavior. It is sad that this is what these higher institutions has come to. Misleading and falsely admitting students without their consents is absolutely despicable. I won't stand for it. I'm also notifying BBB and the FTC.

My undergraduate career spanned 11 years, included 7 different majors, while attending a series of 7 different colleges or universities. After selling my company I decided to change from studying Economics to studying Engineering. At that time DeVry offered me the most direct path and the shortest time investment to completing a BS in and Engineering field of study. I transferred from a state university to DeVry. The program was challenging and the professors very knowledgeable and helpful. The direct degree program approach was much less cumbersome to navigate than the auditorium registration/multiple contingency course method that the traditional state and private schools I had attended. Online registration has dealt with much of this challenge though according to my son, niece, and nephews course availability remains a significant issue in traditional public and private universities.

In my experience this is not an issue at DeVry. 90% of my graduating class received multiple offers of employment prior to graduation with high quality employers. As DeVry is a regionally accredited university I have never had an employer or client question the validity of my degree. In my experience and for working and very focused students DeVry is a good option for completing studies towards an undergraduate degree. I find that the quality of writing capability among the majority of those who claim to have difficulty finding employment following the completion of a DeVry degree to be very telling and likely very contributory to the difficulty they have in finding a job. Many do not know the accurate name for the degree that they hold.

A degree is a qualification. It can help significantly in finding a job but it is not the key to long term successful employment. Performance and growth are what employers want from their employees. They are looking for evidence of performance capability during interviews. Qualifications get the interview, performance during the interview lands the job, performance on the job creates a successful career. In addition to completing a degree many people could benefit from investing in developing their communication and interview skills. There are organizations that can help. Toastmasters is one. There are many providers of interview skills training, life skills coaching, and leadership skills training that can be accessed to improve interview skills and performance. Don't blame the school. Investigate what is preventing success and improve on that characteristic. Good luck.

I made sure to ask both they had received it and ask if there was anything else I needed and I was going to have any charges pending, to which I was told that everything was going to balanced out and most likely a charge of about $300 plus would be pending, but I would be billed and have time to pay it off. I was asked if I had plans to continue with my education. I remember mentioning that I did, but at the current moment I was not sure when or if I was in the best shape to answer that question.

Fast forward, a year, and I started to get collection calls saying I owed DeVry $1,500! I called DeVry and was told that the charges were for dropping out during the middle of a class session and for not giving notice. Apparently the forms I filled out withdrawing were never turned in and I was officially dropped out of the class 10 days later and dropped from the school 10 days after that! making it seem like I did nothing by decide to not attend school anymore. So, my efforts to making sure I did all that was needed was useless and the forms I filled out, mysteriously disappeared because they were never turned in and they have no recollection that they ever sent them to me or I, to them.

I have spent countless hours on the phone with these people and no one seems to know who my counselor was, if my previous professor is still working there, and who I can speak to about this issue. Oh, but the harassing phone calls to my husband and I are constant! I can't even continue my education somewhere else because I can no longer get financial aid if I have a pending balance with another school and I'd have to start over from scratch. So thanks to DeVry I can't continue my education and I am stuck with an unfair $1500 bill which I can't pay, no financial aid to help start over and a lifetime of daily harassing calls. Did anyone know that they use students to work for DeVry to help them recruit more students? But half the time these student don't know what they are doing? No wonder no one knows what's going on with anything!

It's been another 2 weeks I haven't heard from anybody. I am mad I didn't ask the SSA what's the exact date I shall be receiving the credit balance but he did say in January when I get my credit balance pay my thirty dollar book fee. I see now they can keep a credit balance and use it for anything if you let them use your title IV for non institutional charges. So as of today it's a hundred something gone from the credit balance of the six hundred something I have been seeing. It's now five hundred something dollars. I am hoping my mistake was that I should've said "no do not use my title IV for non institutional charges." I just changed that last week and I hope that help me get my credit balance even though this is all so fishy and I would like to know where tf the little hundred something dollars went.

I'd hate to go filing complaints for misinformation because if I needed to say they can't use my title IV for non institutional charges someone could have been told me. I have been contacting financial aid via e-mail and they continue to ignore me. I believe they don't see the credit balance if someone else is planning to use it because like Everest they lied and lied and when I withdrew I seen on the exit notification they had a extra $13,000 on there that didn't go to me nor my education. I can't allow this to happen again because all of it is on my credit report in student loans. The lie was each time I withdrew they sent the funds back to the dept. Education. They lied so much to students the school closed. I see DeVry is getting sued for being too damn high and not helping with employment.

A day later I receive a phone call from the rep who assisted me who stated that the "scholarship committee" said that in their "guidelines" that only they have privy to it states at "any time" if the student's GPA falls then the grant has to be removed and reviewed for qualification again at the annual review. WHAT?? SERIOUSLY?? I will be looking to transfer after this class!! What a bunch of con artists!!! I was lied to and apparently even their own financial advisers read the same I read! I applied and attended Devry despite the bad reviews because I believe everyone's experience is different. Clearly I have joined the "beware" poll!

I was originally enrolled in a Bachelors degree program for computer science. They wouldn't tell me how much the program would actually cost. They informed me that the program would be covered by grants due to my EFC amount, however this was not the case. After about six months I figured out on my own that they were taking out multiple loans on my account. I had to switch to an associates degree program with a major in Network Systems Administration in order to finish my schooling.

The level of teaching is more than subpar. The professors do not care about the students. I had to complain multiple times to the administration and the professors that they were not answering questions for reports and labs. I had students emailing me complaining with the professor, multiple email chains that we were unhappy. I actually ended up getting a credit because we complained so much that we forced them into the decision where they ended up only charging us for half the class. Then they had the nerve to say that I could take it again but I would have to pay!

I strongly encourage anyone that is thinking of enrolling to Devry University to not do so. You have been warned!!! You may get lucky and finish your degree, but the bottom line is they are a for profit college and all they care about is money. They are currently facing an FTC lawsuit and the CEO stepped down after receiving $5 million in 2015. Imagine that! I am filing a complaint for a borrower defense to repayment. I highly encourage any student that has been wrong by Devry University to do the same. Make this school pay for what they did to their students.

I was ready to go, I spoke to them about financial aid and they said I was approved for 100% of the amount because of my father's income, never was told in depth what I was being billed nor was I explained that 100% financial aid didn't mean that covered 100% of their prices. To add insult to injury they even said there was money left over and sent me checks not realizing that they were dispersing loans first then the financial aid so I was adding to what I owed even though I didn't know I was getting into debt in the first place.

After 6 months I was working at Hilton and they had network and communication employees and I spoke to a few of them, told them I was told 90k a year and they laughed and said back in the day that was true but I would be lucky to make 40k and that the job demand was on a huge decline. I was furious and went home to do research and find out that it was true the jobs weren't there and neither was the money. I stopped my classes because I felt scammed and mislead. The person who was a counselor was a salesman. I was told inaccurate information so they can drain government and bank loans on my behalf.

Somehow 6 months of school racked me up a 9k bill. I was 18, just had a kid and didn't even know that these checks were leftover because they pushed through the bank money first. Maybe they did this to sell the point that I was having leftover money not realizing I would owe it all back. These for profit schools need to be regulated and make sure these kids fresh out of high school are not deceived like I was. Now it has accumulated interest and I owe 18k for 6 months of school for a degree to job that didn't exist. Crazy world we live in where these companies can get away with this.

I explained that I only attended online and all of my books/materials were electronic. She said there are still fees for accessing the books through their portal. I told her I would not pay for "phantom fees" that I had not been made aware, known were being charged to my account nor ever billed for! I explained that according to my account, I had $0 past due payments and $0 balance. I told her that DeVry was "creating false charges" in an effort to prevent from my transferring to another college and coercing me into either completing my degree only with DeVry or to not complete my degree at all. I told her she needed to have the fees waived, and she stated she did not have the authority to do so. She stated she would have her supervisor, Josh, call me. That was weeks ago and I have not heard anything since. I sense a class action lawsuit may be in the future!

Every semester, I would get a statement and my account always showed a $0.00 balance. I attended 2 Spring classes. I failed one, along with my winter class. In June of 2010, right before the end of my Summer classes, I got a phone call stating I had a $1,500 balance that would have to be paid before I could register for my next class, and that I lost my scholarship because I was not attending full time. I was never made aware that my scholarship required me to go full time. I was out of state at the time of the call, so I told them I would call them when I returned. A week later, I called them back. I now owed them a balance of just over $3,000! When asked why, they said my loans didn't cover my cost and that I received a refund that I was suppose to use to pay my balance. When I asked why I even received a refund when there was an account balance, they said it must have been a mistake, but it was my responsibility.

Now, the refund they are talking about, I received in January of that year. It was now June. I had received 2 statements by June, all showing a $0.00 balance. They refused to work with me, so I was forced to withdraw. They called to start collection on the debt and refused to take less than $175 a month. I was now down to working one part time job, making $8.50 an hour, I had a car payment, auto and health insurance payments and helped pay the other bills at the time. I had no spare money to give! One person had the nerve to tell me, "You should have thought about all these bills you pay when you knew you owed us. If you can pay them, why can't you pay us?"

They began harassing me, calling constantly (in Florida, it is illegal to call so many times a day or to harass a customer). I eventually stopped answering. They sent it to collections twice, but each time, they take it back out of collections. They won't leave it there long enough to be written off. Every time I call to work something out, it's always, "You just have to pay it." It's been 7 years, I'm a stay at home mother and have been trying to go back to school, which I now can't because they refuse to release my transcripts. I was an impressionable 18 year old, looking to get an education fast and get a career. Now, I've got over $14,000 in student loan debt for 5 classes, in which only 2 of the credits transfer to the local community college. This place is terrible.

In my second year I realized I don't want to work in the IT field so I wanted to change to business degree. The advisors denied me the opportunity to change my major and so I went through the major I had. All of the advisors from financial, academic, and career advisors were random each time you call them and were disinterested in the student's questions and inquires and concerns. They only cared if you miss a payment, then you can get in trouble with the school. They would deny you registering next sessions or semester of classes till you catch up on your payments and place you on academic hold.

I am not happy I finished my education here and now it prevent me from attending another legit school and other opportunities in the future. Many employers hiring did not require a degree in the IT field. They value work experiences and certifications over a degree. DeVry University already knew this before signing me up with them. They care about profits even though it ruins people lives. Almost whatever I was taught at DeVry could have been learned on YouTube or other teaching sites for many thousands cheaper price or even FREE. I learned more from general Google search than at 4-5 years at DeVry. DeVry is a SCAM and is worst decision in my life. Do not attend here... YOU BEEN WARNED.

Now to add more insult to injury I tried to request a copy of my official transcripts and they will not allow me to get them or sign up for classes because there is still a little over $1000 balance on the account which I told them "if you all agreed to a settlement and you all got the money why are you all still holding my transcripts hostage." I was told the settlement will only satisfy getting them off my credit in order to get my transcripts and continue class I will have to pay the full balance.

How are they able to get away with this. This is not fair and I don't know what to do. I can barely afford to make the payments on the loan I took out to pay them and now they are still asking for money even though they agreed on a settlement. Stuff like this is why people have huge student loans and no degrees because they get completely screwed over by these schools. I just want a copy of my transcripts so that I can continue my degree at another institution. Is that too much to ask for.

2 weeks went by and still no response and I was still getting charged for the course. I keep getting the runaround. I put in a change of address and new phone # with them year ago and yet they still have not updated system. It seems to be one problem after another with this school. I see the huge bill already and have only been in school 1 year. I'm a single mom with no income yet financial aid and the loans I'm getting still barely pay for my schooling. Very unprofessional, unorganized, expensive and not worth it school. Thinking about changing schools since I've had nothing but bad experiences there. Would NOT recommend to anyone!!

The first day of class I went online to get started and there was no access to my courses. I called and waited hours of phone calls and a few days later I got the problem fixed. I started class and have been attending, doing all my required work and meeting my 3 discussions per topic per class each week. Today I logged into the portal and it was telling me the server was busy for a few hours and also the Hub was not allowing me access to my course list. I decided to call only to be told once again my classes were dropped and that they were sorry, they are not sure how or what had happened.

I was told the problem would be resolved and they would get a hold of the registrar and get back with me in a short time. This was this morning and it is now after hours and not a phone call, an email or any contact from anyone to even let me know they were working on the issue or where they were with the status of my situation.

Considering this is twice I have been put off in the past 2 weeks and the fact we deal with very condensed course time I find it rather appalling and disrespectful to be treated as if this is not a major issue. It is a very serious issue when there is numerous situations always occurring and it takes most times multiple hours and days to correct things. I feel as though this institution could really care less about the high standards they profess to have. I have no desire to continue but at the same time I am almost finished with my degree and do not want to have the hassle to transfer and go through all the time and cost to get into another college. BUT, At $609.00 A CREDIT HOUR and the hassle that seemingly non stop issues that come about regularly with DeVry it is almost worth the hassle to transfer.

DeVry, You are one of the, if not the highest charging educational institution. Your staff is friendly and polite, I will it that but for the accumulation of issues and cost you take the top rank. I have been reading numerous complaints regarding similar issues and the options for some are low so getting charged with the costs of financial responsibilities become a even higher burden for a lot of students. I can't even finish my degree because of the cost you charge. It is ridiculous that people are stuck with this cost. I know I chose DeVry but only because the situation I was in at the time I started. You have the cost per credit fixed so you can't catch a break because most can not take more than 8 credits in one session. The credit break before was if you took more than 7 credits in one session??? They it would lower the cost some but still unbelievably high.

I am less than 38 credits to finish and I am struggling financially to make this work so I can get my degree finished up. Then I have to call at least once a week to get things repaired and fixed because of issues or glitched in your system. Deleting my classes and bumping my classes. This is so disruptive, and not very professional at all. I can not remember a time when attending any other college that I had this many problems with classes and online education.

I am wondering what I am suppose to do while I wait again for your institution to fix yet another problem. I have to wait around and then play catch up because of your mistake. What happens now they have dropped my classes. I have 2 weeks of work completed in these courses I was registered for. What happens to the work when this is fixed and I am put back into the classes??? Then again I have now lost another work day to complete my work and this is two weeks in this session this has happened. I get the apologies from your staff. How sweet. It does not help my motivation and drive to keep getting pounded with these irritating issues.

I am so thoroughly disappointed and I am losing a lot of respect for Devry. You pride yourself in being a professional school of Management. But it appears that the school could care less about the education of their students. I see no hurry or concern in my case. I have been a dedicated student and I have taken my education very seriously. I wish I felt that I was of the same importance in relations to your Institution.

I recently keep getting emails, calls, and letters about my 75k loan being late. I have a family of 8 and I don't have a good job because I don't have a degree. Devry messed up my life and I cry every night. I am stressed out. I don't have a penny to my name and they threaten me with levying my bank account. My husband still has no clue that it's past 40k. I am scared to death that he will leave me and win custody of my children if he finds out. I talked it out with a therapist and she said Devry definitely put me into depression. I don't know what to do. Someone please help me.

After graduation, I moved to CA to pursue my career. Found a couple of jobs but was ultimately let go from both. After being let go from the first job, I decided to go back for my Master's. This is where things went wrong. The girl I talked to at the Sherman Oaks campus told me in a calm and clear manner that the program would cost only $21,000 and it would be added onto my current loan account. So the math in my head told me 'Okay, that brings the total amount I owe to about $65,000' and with interest added should be about $74,000.' After graduation, lo and behold I find that they made another loan account to Sallie-Mae (now Navient) and the amount did not match up to the original agreed loan amount to take out. So according to them, I now owe $64,000+ for a program that only cost me $21,000. How does this make any sense?!

I have been back and forth between them and Navient about this. On Navient's side, the undergrad loans are correct (even though the interest rates are absurd). So 5 years of school and 4 job changes later, this school has me slated to pay back close to $130,000 when the total amount of the loans only equal to be between $64,000 - $68,000 (this is including interest added recently to the Parent-Plus loans). Because of these loans, I am afraid that I won't be able to start to have an actual life with a family and a house until I am in my 40's!

The only good thing that has come out of this is the training and degrees I earned. As far as job placement, they only assisted for 2 months. After I told the Phoenix Campus career department that I landed a job in my field, they said "OK" and asked me what I was doing now. They hung up shortly after and never bothered to contact me ever again... and that was close to 4 years ago. By the way, it should be noted that I went out, hit the ground and landed the jobs ON MY OWN! Granted, I am now employed in my field still but the fact that they never went the extra mile to ask for my resume to send out to recruiters for possible interviews was a slap in the face. All they care about is how much money are you going to shell out? I'm still battling this school about the overage of my second account which should not have been created at all!

In hindsight, I never thought it would be as excruciating an experience. They made it sound so easy that a caveman could do it (no pun intended). I go in, do the work, graduate, land a job and pay back the loans. Sounded so easy at first. Never thought that I might have to take a school to court over the fact that they made a second loan account behind my back. Frankly, I was elated to see that they are being investigated by the FTC. I hate to say this because I made some friends with my professors at the Phoenix campus but I hope that they shut them down. No one should ever have to go through what me and many other former and current students at this institution are going through now.

Towards the end of my program I started receiving notices from Federal Loan entities showing I was in debt to them for loans taken out in my name. I called about it and told them I knew nothing of these loans and would not be held liable. They were sympathetic but they couldn't help me out. I contacted the VA and the gentleman went through the system and informed me that since they had indeed sent in payments their side was clean. I agreed. He recommended I file a formal complaint through the VA system, which I did. Within days I received word from DeVry parent group asking for a teleconference with the Ombudsman. I attended the teleconference which only lasted about 5 minutes and gave them all my information and my story.

Unfortunately I hadn't written down names during the past two years, didn't think it would come to this. Within weeks the Ombudsman sent me an email giving their decision along with all the evidence against me. Funny thing is: when I inquired about the telephone conversations I knew had been recorded all those times I called, I was told they do not keep the recordings more than 6 months. And yet two years later the Ombudsman was able to obtain transcript copies of those recordings! They agreed to pay back only a portion of the loans taken out and in turn sent me to collections for the other half. I told her that I was not responsible for any of the loans in the first place. It has been a very stressful situation and I do not recommend this school under any circumstances. All this occurred between Jan 2013-Jan 2016.

During the second semester I stated the same thing to the adviser, that I could not cover any extra classes and would only be able to take the maximum amount of classes that student aid would cover. He explained that the last adviser was incorrect and could have given me an extra two credit hours. So I figured "hey sign me up for those so I can move along faster". I asked him 3 times if he was sure about it and explained that I could not take extra classes due to not being able to pay for them at this time.

Around 3-4 weeks passed after I started the semester and I received a bill in the mail from Devry University. I was "whats this?", opened up the bill to find a huge bill for extra college credit hours that my student aid did not cover. I called Devry at that time and spoke to several people because they kept pushing me around to different people since no one wanted to help me. Finally spoke to someone who said I could cancel the class and not have to worry about the bill. I cancelled the class with them and then a few weeks later received another bill.

I called back and did the same run around until I spoke with someone who stated that I have to pay due to canceling the class after two weeks after the class has started. I was extremely vexed at the school and more upset that I kept getting the run around. I explained my situation to them and they started passing me around over and over. After around 2 months of calling and being thrown around and around I gave up. I figured I would take a breather and call back and try again at a later date. They ended up sending my file to a debt consolidator. Now when I call they don't have any information of me being there and said my file was sold... I owe 19k for 2 credit hours and the fee just keeps getting higher with interest...

I have asked to receive copies of the phone call and they stated it was for their personal use only and they could not send me any copies. I spoke with an adviser today and he just kept asking me why I have waited years to get this taken care of and there is nothing he could do. He just kept saying that he would have got this taken care of at the time of the incident if it was him. I asked him to help me get it taken care of now and he transferred me. Surprise!!!

Sad part is that it was at a job interview with Erie Insurance to maintain their network etc that I was finally given an honest but life shattering truth. The interviewer could have lost his job over what he told me but I respected that he couldn't sit by tell me he will be in contact and just never call... Since most jobs in my field require you being in control of a company's whole everything (Data, Customer info, basically you could screw them badly if you had cruel and criminal intentions in the positions I am educated for) and that no company in their sound and right mind would take a risk like that.

It didn't matter if I turned into Mother Theresa. It was just not gonna happen. He told me a few times over that he really liked what he seen in me and thought I would be perfect even though 10 years prior I had a few years of crazy bad choices. It doesn't matter that I haven't gotten so much as a parking ticket since I was 19. I will never be able to use my degree for its true purpose so why should I have to pay back that 67k?

For anyone else that plans on making Devry the number one draft pick. This is my advice. I won't say don't attend or change your mind... What I will say is this. Every phone call mention to your advisor that since they are recording the call you would like copies of every single moment. This will make them think twice about lying to you or not informing you of stuff you're going to wanna scream about 5 years and 50-100K in debt later. Is there anything I can do to help myself?

I keep getting the runaround with the finance people at Devry and I can't get one single answer why I owe that money to them. The VA doesn't know why I owe Devry $2500 either. I am another Veteran that has had their school benefits taken away because of Devry being a shady, sneaky business. Oh by the way I recently get a email from Devry saying that if I hear anything about Devry getting Investigated by the FTC and US government that it's all false and the truth will come out. Well I hope they shut them down for all the hurt and pain they have cause to the thousands of hard working students and Vets.

I am a single female, over 50 with no college degree and sorely underemployed. When I questioned why I was not eligible for the Subsidized Student Loan, I was told those loans are on a needs based criteria and I didn't need it! Huh? What? How can that be? So what they are saying is I have to be a single minority mother to qualify for a Subsidized Student Loan? Sure, that's the answer, because they probably don't make as much money from Subsidized as un-Subsidized loans. I know I qualified, but they weren't going to give it to me!

Do you know I had to fight them tooth and nail for some Subsidized money (and some is the operative word here). They have taught me well, I didn't stop with bonafide actual facts about my financial situation, until the person on the other line had no choice but to bump me up the ladder. When I got to the top, I calmly laid out my undeniable case! Lo and behold, finally I was granted some Subsidized money, but the majority of my student loans are un-Subsidized. Tisk, tisk, tisk DeVry!!! You're behaving like thieves!

The beginning of my negative experience started with a class scheduling error made by an Academic Adviser. She was very nice and professional, but made an honest mistake. Long story short: when the error was realized, I, the student, was told it was too late correct it, as classes were a week in already. I made a fuss about it, but the staff: 1) Absolutely refused to get management involved, even after I made multiple requests to escalate the matter for resolution, 2) Absolutely refused to own their mistake even though it was DOCUMENTED by their previously staff. I postponed the classes because of the error, and was billed a percentage of the tuition - no exceptions - despite not attending during the term billed for.

And more importantly, Devry completely derailed my veteran's benefits. This was the result of what seemed like multiple processing delays and confusion about the issue I mention above. Subsequently, I was issued a debt letter from the VA, and did not receive benefits for a couple of months, which hurt a lot financially. Devry was overpaid, so I had to pay the VA back the money it sent to Devry (who still has the money) to prevent collections/garnishment. Devry and has acknowledged that I'm due a refund; I have yet to receive this money - a significant amount of money, btw.

Regarding academics: I would suggest, to applicants, doing enough due diligence if you decide to do business with Devry. I would recommend reaching out to former or current students to find out if you'll really get the experience and knowledge you're anticipating by taking a particular class. In one class of mine, prior to class start time, we (students) were just making small talk and the topic of course quality at Devry came up.

The classes certainly are not a waste of time, but a lot of people are left disappointed after taking classes at Devry. Why? Well, because some go into it thinking they're going to gain at least some experience in a particular class based on how it's advertised in the catalog just to find out that the "meat" of the course is precursory things, and you'll have one chapter of the "meaty" subject maybe during the last week of class, leading you to take the next level course to gain said experience. I personally haven't continued "chasing" such things - two semesters was enough for me to go elsewhere.

Transfer credits (additional): After much back and forth about getting the credit that I was told I'd get prior to enrolling in my first course (which should have been a good amount considering this was supposed to be my 2nd bachelor's), I received far less in reality. Why? Well, one guess would be that after paying $30 to have a transcript sent to Devry, confirming that it was sent (date/time/address/etc), Devry could not find it or they "never received it" and I needed to request it (and pay another $30) again; this instead of them contacting the institution to figure this out.

I can definitely see using Devry to learn one or two technical programs or something of the sort, but not for an entire degree. Until Devry Education Group reforms its training for employees and establishes some better practices, I would look elsewhere. I hate that so many people have had to deal with disappointment from making the choice to study at Devry - perhaps the recent action brought by the FTC will help Devry clean up its act in more than one way.

I had a baby, and was forced, if I wanted to continue my education, to go back to DeVry because no other University or college would accept my hours. After that, the school made it difficult to stay enrolled. The class schedule wasn't what I had asked for and the advisers were no longer readily available and helpful as they were in the beginning. Now I have $54,000 in debt to the Dept of Education with no degree and no transferable hours.

Now, currently, I owe over $100,000 in loans, which I'm almost in default because of it. I want to know how I can get in on the lawsuit. I'm not doing it for the money. I want the school to be held accountable for taking advantage of students in my situation. I want justice! I can't attend school or anything else because this has been a hindrance on my credit report and my livelihood.

Tell me why during finals when a Professor sends out massive emails about reminders, I send her one in less than 24 hrs during the day, about an issue I didn't agree with on a classmate's feedback and she gets back to me after the due date, and when I turned it in, I was 30 minutes late, and assume I was ok to use the "non-emergency" late assignment excuse (as stated in the syllabus), and she doesn't accept it, and she is aware it's the Finals that's worth the most points and that we ALL spent so much time on the research, but she won't accept a 30 minute late assignment, but will still reply back to me about what to do with my final anyway, knowing it's already late.. But doesn't take it? Then during the beginning of the week, I ask her about stuff to add on the presentation, and she doesn't answer 3 of my questions I sent to her and your ** is hanging high and dry not clarified.

You request time with the "Professor" because they are worth more than an "Instructor".. and all you get is 2 word responses that lead to NOTHING. Luckily I was able to maintain a high B without a final presentation grade, but it's the principle. The professors need to be more considerate about when ** is due especially because it's already stupid to work around the school's timezone instead of your own.. That defeats the purpose of online learning overall. You gotta work hours ahead of time. That's ** stupid but you need this degree so it's sink or swim.

Anyway, here I am working on my second Master's degree and racking up debt of over $100,000 and still have no job. Now I have too much education, but no experience. Go figure. I do not know what I am going to do, but if I could save one person from making the mistake of going to this school because of false promises of getting a job when you graduate, then I will be happy. If you are one of the few that have actually gotten a job off of a Devry or Keller degree, then you are very lucky. Please run the opposite direction if you are thinking about going to this school. This school is no good at helping you find a job.

My first few classes in my program were a joke and WAY too easy that I actually believed the reviews. After getting to the more advanced classes, I became forced to study and learn material and since then, I have learned more than I could have imagined. Stop complaining because you do not know simple math, when it comes to being overcharged. DeVry says that they are expensive before you even start, and the only reason some people perceive them to be a bad school is because of the reviews that people leave that cannot seem to pass or finish classes. There should be a website for verified graduates to post reviews, so this school can make a turn around on society.

The software compatibility to my home computer was not working and therefore I could not do my course work at home. The class was only 2 hours long and I could not stay. The library was not an option because all I had was an hour on the computer, not to mention I had my own computer at home. Compatibility was the issue... Long story short, there was nothing my professor could do although he knew my system at home was not compatible with DeVry's programming for the course and I ended failing, although I did tell someone that I could not get into the program at home. My poor professor even tried to explain the issue to the school they did not listen and I ended up failing. Now DeVry posts a memo to students to check compatibility of their systems with software from DeVry.

The other issue I had was DeVry had my loans in deferment although I was still in school and never left. DeVry had my withdraw date as 12/21/2014. Seriously, the classes are over on the 20th of December and thus the January session is approaching. I never left school so for the past few months up until the beginning of November I have had to do deference which no one sensible at DeVry can tell me why or how I even had a withdrawn from school on my records nor how I even ended up in deferment in the first place. Last but not least, DeVry had me take a class I did not need only to tell me there was nothing they could substitute the class for. DeVry is one big headache with perks... I have a job with the student workers working at DeVry so that's a plus. Maybe the $8.50 part time will help somewhere. I am thankful for the aspect of my life with DeVry.

Here is where my dissatisfaction started. I met with my career counselor in Manhattan and the outcome was I needed to start an internship in the field. To me, that means working for free and I am not in the position to do that I have bills to pay and another son in college. My student debt is $62,000 which I am now paying back. The college was no help in setting me up with any interviews, they only looked at my resume and made suggestions. I have been on my own since I graduated and have had no luck. I have no real experience in the technical field except for what I have learned in college.

I currently work as a courier to pay my bills, which I could have done without a college degree. When I joined the college they stated that they had a 92% placement for graduates within 6 months in their field of study. I feel that Devry is not setup for the older student and If I could trade my worthless degree for my satisfaction of my student debts, I would do it in heartbeat.

I was very successful in achieving my BS degree, graduated Magna *cum Laude. Contrary to popular belief Devry is well respected here in Georgia and throughout the region. I then attended Keller School of management. I was then retired and used my GI Bill 911 benefits. Yes I still had the fill out the FASFA even though I was receiving Educational benefits from VA. I found out that I received a Student Loan through FASFA, then halfway through my first class I received my benefits from VA once all the paperwork was done. Long story short I went to finance and told I don't want any more student loans and my VA benefits is covering everything. I then graduated with no student debt for my MBA, and landed a great job.

Now I will admit the Job Assistance is a joke, and talking with other co-workers that attending the different schools Public and Private that is was pretty much the same, and you have to apply yourself when you are searching for a job. As far as the professors, Devry was very challenging and those that drop out or receive low grade didn't apply themselves No fault of the School. Case and point; While attending Devry I was an active duty Soldier so I deployed to Kuwait and then Africa for about a year. I was able to complete my course online without too much of an issue, but I was able to inform my professors through emails and other correspondence that I may need adjust the time I can take my finals etc, THEY ALL WORKED WITH ME. So those of you that have say Devry University DID NOT do this for me, well I say what did you do to plan and prepare.

After a year of classes, my business travel took me out of the country. I canceled a class the first week of the course and was charged... that's okay. When I was started the second class and was still out of the country, I just could not do it. The connection was terrible, so I canceled again and stopped classes. Now I am attempting to pay the cancelation fees and I am unable to access my account. I have to wait over the phone for 45 minutes to speak with a rep. I am absolutely flabbergasted that such a large University can have such poor customer service. In most of my communications with them, I felt manipulated and cheated. I will NEVER return to this school and I urge all inquiring students to investigate well before agreeing to attend. Even when you have the information in writing they do not honor it.

I receive a small check every month for disability from the Veterans Administration and they are going to start withholding that money until they are paid back in full for the class that they paid me to take. So I contacted DeVry and told them that I did not withdraw from the class. I completed the class and took the final exam and needed the withdrawal changed to a grade so that I can show the Veterans Administration that I didn't drop out or withdraw, and keep from withholding my disability money and forcing me to pay back money for a class that I should have never been withdrawn from. If you're a veteran reading this do not use your G.I. Bill benefits to attend DeVry University. Go to any other institution but DeVry.

It is not Devry's or for that matter any schools responsibility to find you a job after you graduate. Finding a job in your field is up to you! It comes down to how motivated and prepared you are, that's just life. After graduation it took me about 1 1/2 year to land a job in my field of study but it was well worth it. I now have a great career making great money. I still continue to study programming on my own as I want to continue to have success in my professional life. With that being said, I gave 4 stars because of high cost of tuition. I would not recommend this school to anyone straight out of high school because it is a lot of work and if you don't finish the program, then you would be stuck with high dept and no degree.

Even my professors joked about Devry and that they are for profit, and that is what worried me the most. Classes were easy - most of them. Which scared me even more. My last 3 months of classes I didn't have the money to finish but they still let me take classes? So I graduated to gain 60k+ debt. Yay me. Winner. They wanna shove your debt to your parents and you. Parent plus and your loans. 30k each. Plus the classes I couldn't afford. Now have to figure out how to pay the 9k or I'll get sued. I work full time 10 hrs. Poor as can be, and they wanna sue me now.

Don't make excuses because you weren't ready for the real world because you can always look back and say you could've done things differently or better. Whether it would be going to DeVry or not. And sticking with the path and not going off it. Everyone has challenges but you probably knew they affect your ability to do well. I do wish I started out with county college but I would've complained about the same issues. Heck I took some courses to transfer over since it cost significantly less. But I saw issues with professors at my county college. I don't regret going here but the things I didn't take advantage of when I was at DeVry.

If you are determined and give this school 100% of your time or close to it, you will have no issues. I have so many friends that went to great schools such as Rutgers University, Kean, Ramapo College in New Jersey and struggled to find jobs for years and to this day some are left without one. Some may even have jobs but not in their desired field or degree. Those especially in business and technology majors are making excuses. I did graduate from DeVry, North Brunswick NJ. Everyone I know in my graduated class received early job offers. If you can't find a job, you learn how to network, interview for a job.

I did finally speak with a Dean at the St. Louis campus. I inquired why payroll would be sending my son a check. Her reply was this: "When they have an overage on Pell or financial aid they issue the student a check that will say payroll." She could not answer why anyone would have applied for my son to have financial aid or a grant 2 years after he stopped going to DeVry. She told me she had to check into it and she would call back the following Monday, the same day the Financial Aid Supervisor was to call me back. As you probably could have guessed, neither my son or I have received a call. It's now September and my son has missed enrollment. Best advice - don't make the mistake. Go to a community college, they offer online classes also at a much more reasonable price.

In February 2009, my sister was diagnosed with stage 4 stomach cancer. I was thoroughly devastated. The counselor convinced me that I should use this as inspiration. I have emails stating this! My anxiety levels flew through the roof and my doctor put me on ** (I was already on **). This cocktail of anti-anxiety meds led me to signing the contract to take classes starting in March. I was doing really great and had a 4.0 going into the fall semester. In September of 2009, my employer started to harass me because I refused to falsify documents to be used in a labor dispute. He set out to make my life even more miserable. My grades started to slip. In January 2010, my mom had brought my sister to stay with her in our city. Mom was diagnosed with lung cancer and had to have surgery to remove 2/3rds of her right lung. My boss allowed me a vacation day off to take her to the hospital.

I had to take over for my mom in taking my sister to her chemo treatments. I told my counselor a that I could not take classes and needed a medical leave. I was told that they don't allow medical leave and that my student loans would be due and I would have to start paying back what I had accrued. I should have just stopped right there. I failed a core algebra class. At this point, my boss was piling on even more responsibilities. Between work, home and Devry, I was spinning out of control physically and mentally.

In March 2010, I was fired. I was diagnosed with pre-cancer ulcers. The idea that I was most likely to follow my sister scared me to the core. My medical issues increased and my sister died May 13, 2010. Devry counselor were relentless in taking advantage and applying pressure to me. I was now unemployed and the thought of having to pay back student loans was overwhelming. Over the next 2 years, I took classes but I failed the same math class 2 more times. I failed 9 more classes in a row before being expelled with $55K in Stafford loans. Devry had been raising their tuition during this time and I didn't even know. My final GPA was 2.8.

I contacted the Dept. of Education Ombudsman's office in 2013 to file a complaint that they took advantage of me. I told them about my medical issues and medications and that I could email them all my records and emails. They blew me off! When they finally got around to submitting an inquiry to Devry, it didn't even include anything about my medical issues during this time. They found in favor of Devry.

I was looking at transferring everything to a local college only to find out the classes I did pass were not transferable because Devry is a TECHNICAL SCHOOL not a University. I was also informed that I only had $5,000 in student loan funds left. I have not been able to find employment since 2010 and I am now disabled. Devry was ordered by the DOE to not contact me but I continually get Student Perk emails and offerings. I am 54 years old now and have this huge debt destroying my life.

Devry lied to me and took advantage of me. The DOE claims I signed the contract so I am accountable. The fact that I signed it while under the influence means nothing. I was taken advantage of. Devry paid an investor $4.3M in a settlement in 2012 in misleading recruiting. Unfortunately the students, like me, have been left with nothing but a huge debt ruining their lives. Buyer beware! Devry is not a University. They are abusive in their recruiting. Do not buy a lemon. Go to your local college or even community college. Learn from my experience before you sign anything.

This last semester they enrolled me in classes without authorization or confirmation which caused me to lose housing allowance. They even tried to get me to take a 20k loan out. I made it very specific that I wanted to make sure I would get my housing allowance and did not want to attend this semester if I did not. One semester I dropped classes in the end of the first week and the school tried to charge me for basically the whole semester and threatened to send me to collections. If anyone would like to discuss please call me. I am looking into getting a group of people for a class action lawsuit.

They are telling me that I owe them money because I've reached and aggregated loan limit and they were allowing me to continue my education since I was so close to completion. Funny thing is this is the first time that I ever heard of it. I was busy with a divorce, travel for work, and then moving for work that I didn't put time into checking this out. Now it looks like a $78,000 mistake by choosing Devry. The teachers were ok, some better than others but the courses were outdated for my field.

Finally when I got everything complete as much as I could, I turned in as soon as I could. Some of the assignments were difficult which would need assistance. Robert ** reached out, I explained the situation and he was going to escalate it. He even said a response should have been made and to forward him my initial e-mail. I do agree, the e-mail was not thorough, but should of still received a follow up e-mail!!! I could not think straight, finding my father is diagnosed with dementia. The response from Robert ** was too slow.

I tried calling my professor. She, Audrey **, asked me what I wanted her to do. With that response, I had no comment. I haven't had the chance to think about it, so I immediately wrote Robert **, which his e-mails were screened by Paul **. I will forward the response from him. It does not make sense at all to me and I made him aware. I am a VETERAN using the GI BILL and they disrespect me every chance they get. And I want anyone that reads this to be AWARE of how DeVry is ran. READ THEIR REVIEWS.

The biggest issue I have had is that I received a D+ in 1 class, a C+ in another and the rest are high A's and B's. Apparently schools have the right to cancel a Veteran's GI Bill if you drop below a 3.0. Since November 2014 because I got a low grade in one class I have had to use Federal Loans to pay for my school and I am out my BAH and GI Bill completely. My school said that I had a 2.99 and they placed me on Academic Probation. I have since November 2014 got nothing less than a B+ but that is not good enough. I have to stay on academic probation until the end of August. At that point I do not get back paid for anything and in order to get the rest of my hard earned GI Bill I have to attend another college. I feel like VA has put too much control in the For Profit Schools where they control part of my financial Outcome.

I have been put in massive debt and been stolen benefits from all due to 1 minor mistake which I have corrected. Also Keller has tried to charge me for the Statistics class I withdrew from back in March so I sent all of this information to the GI Bill Compliance Feedback System. They launched a supposed full investigation with members from DeVry and Keller and they concluded that they could use Grants and Federal money to take care of my debt of $731 since VA has already sent a check in April for $1,500 due to a mistake on their part so they put this on my account for the class and I still owe $731. But they said according to the report that it was not their fault, it was mine and VA's. However they are authorized to pull money from a magic hole and cover my debt but I am wrong.

Something does not seem right here. I feel like I have been mislead, stolen from, and taken advantage of due to having a full ride to school by the GI Bill. However it seems it is more work for a school to use the VA so they use anything they can to get a student to use federal loans which allow them to perform less work and less rules. I feel I have been deprived of my hard earned benefits and stolen from and put in massive debt for no reason. VA has washed their hands off my issues because according to them Universities have the right to do this. How do they have the right to control somebody else's benefits and money when all they are doing is taken advantage of the system. Nobody is monitoring them because they all benefit from it. I want nothing more than the money and benefits that I earned being an Honorable Disabled Veteran.

I attended college like I was supposed to so what gives the college the right to suspend my money and then turn around and charge me long term debt and loans. I know I am not the only one that For Profit Schools have taken advantage of and I want to help make the system correct and take control away from the schools and give it back to the people. Three strikes of taking advantage of me and if I had not been aware of the situation I would have paid money back to a school that already benefited from payment and profits. Please help me or guide me to an organization that can assist me in getting my benefits back and not be in $50,000 or more in debt when I already had financial aid that I earned by serving this country. Total benefits taken from me has equaled $7,000 in BAH monthly payments and close to $20,000 in federal loans that should be from my GI Bill.

My assignments are late and I am not given any opportunity to make it up because tech support contacts me the next day after I send an email, while I am working and then closed the ticket saying I did not respond. I am stuck with a huge loan for school I cannot complete and assistance promised to me when I enrolled is not available. I'm to the point now where I am hoping to find a Pro Bono attorney to get me out of this.

As a nervous student entering the doors for orientation, they provide you with limitless resources. Unlike big major Universities, DeVry offers virtually a personal counselor to assure all things are handled so you can just focus on your courses. Getting into the classroom you'll notice that the instructors are world class professionals in the subject that they are teaching. Unlike a State University, where the instructors have been teaching full time for 20+ years. Not that teaching full time is a bad thing but they cannot possibly offer the practical expertise and experience that these world class professionals at DeVry offer.

Just because the staff give you all of the tools needed to be successful does that mean they will do the work for you too. You still need to want it! You still need to dig in, and go get it. The professors aren't there to take your tests for you. If you work for it, If you study, If you want it, it's very clear that the DeVry process of educating is revolutionary. I used to tell people that my time in the US Navy was the best professional experience I've ever had. That until I walked through the doors of DeVry University.

I have been to two other institutions and none of them has been like DeVry. My first term, I got enrolled in a week. They have me registered up to January of next year upon my request. When I wanted to take 3 classes a term, they would not let me. I was told multiple times that I did not have enough aid to cover 3 courses a term. Also, I was kept from overloading myself. Instead of allowing me to take 3 courses and having an out of pocket course, I was warned that it would cost me money. I really don't see how anyone has had a bad experience with DeVry. I guess it happens but I personally have had a wonderful experience with them. My current course of study is Health Information Technology. I plan to continue with them on to Health Information Management.

After getting there when I was eighteen, I found out that being out of state that I could not get as many grants that I need and no loans, as I was still considered a dependent. I had already started in electrical engineering finding this all out while attending class. Then my dad said he could no longer help me after a couple of months, so I had to start looking for a job. Work was hard to find as I did not have a car. I could not seem to find anything over minimum wage as many better jobs were already taken by Devry students that were farther along the classes.

I found a graveyard job at Jack in the Box. I got a 3.96 GPA for the first trimester (they went by trimesters back then). I transferred to Electronic Tech as it was so hard working full time and going to school full time. Long story short, when I got done, I owed over $30k back then and got very limited help getting a job while I was there. I read on Wikipedia that "DeVry's tuition for an associate degree is 10 times higher than at community colleges; it has a dropout rate of 50 percent". I should have transferred to ASU.

In the end I never went back nor did I ever find out what happened with my scholarship and on top of all of that my father passed away. So yeah, I wouldn't recommend this school to anyone and for those saying it's great - well, you were just one of the few lucky ones that didn't have to go through what some of us did. But that didn't stop me from living my life, my only regret was losing my scholarship that I worked so hard for.

They acted like FASFA was of the highest importance and I wasn't going to be able to begin my studies if I didn't complete it. I just blew them off. 90 percent, if not 100 percent of the professors probably wouldn't get hired at community colleges or schools such as Columbia, NYU or Pace to name a few. I have attended three other schools, including one in the Dominican Republic. The quality in DR was about 5 times higher than Devry and they were serious. I am also a Graduate Student at Pace University and being here feels like going back to kindergarten.

Although I only started an Associates Degree and I knew it was bad, I expected better. I am not referring to level of difficulty. I am referring to the teaching methods and the high level of pedagogical negligence. Although you may get a good professor 1 percent of the times, the rest are so incapable that they often come across as defensive/offensive. I have seen professors make the classroom environment uncomfortable when students ask simple questions. I have seen patronization, verbally belittling students, being treated like they are mentally challenged. This then leads to a very awkward interaction ending with a very irritated student ready to knock somebody out. I knew this was bad when I saw a professors Electrical Engineering Masters Degree (ONLINE).

Do not be fooled by nice looking posters and fabricated successful stories used in advertisements. My personal opinion is this: if a school advertises, DON'T GO TO IT! Good schools don't fish for students. On the contrary, they actually try to keep students out and select the excellent few to maintain their prestige. If you've made the decision to get a degree, go to an accredited school. If you're academically deficient, study up on your math and English and apply to a real school.

I decided to end my studies here when I received a phone call from and advisor trying to get me to enroll in classes for the next semester. They might disguise that and say it's convenient to the student but a real school would not call you like a telemarketer, disregarding whether you're doing good or bad in your classes. IF YOU ARE PART OF THE STAFF, SHAME ON YOU, YOU ALL KNOW YOU'RE SELLING FALSE DREAMS AND DRAINING STUDENTS OF THEIR MONEY. AFTER READING OTHER REVIEWS, I AM HAVING A HARD TIME TAKING DEVRY SERIOUSLY. THIS IS A JOKE OF A SCHOOL.

My fiancee was going to go here for her Graphic Design degree and it was supposed to be accelerated. It was going to take her 3 1/2 years to get her ASSOCIATES degree. She decided to leave because that time frame was absurd. She then proceeded to get texts, emails and phone calls from the advisor after telling her that she was not interested. This went on for month. Whatever you do, do not, DO NOT, go to school here.

During my time there, various financial aid issues arose that were out of my control. I could not get a straight answer out of anyone in the financial aid office. The one woman even blamed me for my lack of planning. I ended up paying hundreds of dollars out of pocket just to continue my schooling in hopes of graduating. Thankfully, I eventually was able to work it out, but had to max out my financial aid each semester to ensure proper coverage. My final semester was paid completely out of pocket since I had no financial aid money left. Savings account depleted! It took me about 1 1/2 years to graduate partly because I could only handle 1-3 classes per semester while working full-time during the day.

During my last semester there, my student success coach began emailing me. She was pumping me up for graduation and "getting to know me." She said she would help me find an awesome new job in business management. She told me how highly qualified I was for these types of positions and appeared genuine. I graduated October 2013 and began my job search by ferociously applying for all management job postings. By Christmas, I hadn't heard back from ANY of those applications. I have been in the work field for about 10 years, I have a BS in Business Management, I graduated Summa Cum Laude, I was a member of the business honor society, Sigma Beta Delta, so this was quite surprising to me.

I emailed my student success coach in December deciding to take the help that was offered to me. This was a joke! She didn't respond until well into January and didn't "help" me at all. She asked me to send her job postings that I was currently looking at. She looked over my already completed resume and emailed me back saying everything looked good. I explained how I had been applying, but couldn't find a lead. I was reassured by my success coach that my time would come.

By February, I decided to start applying to ANY job posting that seemed even the slightest bit interesting. I even applied to entry level positions and positions that had a posted salary significantly lower than I was currently making. I figured, "Hey, at least I'll get new experience and maybe get a better job with more money down the line." I STILL received not one single call back after applying to hundreds, HUNDREDS of postings. At this time, the head of the student success team got involved in my process. I finally felt relief that I was going to get the help I was promised by the admissions counselor. Except this coach was no more helpful than the previous "coach." He reviewed my resume (again!), told me it looked great, and then forwarded me to these jobs agency websites that posted random positions throughout the US. None were even remotely close to Philadelphia, let alone in my field.

I began to feel even more frustrated. I began to feel misguided, duped. The dept head continued to email me on a weekly basis even though he was really no help at all. Consistently repeating the same insufficient nonsense. Then, it dawned on me. I realized I was being pushed, coerced into taking ANY job because I was closing in on the end of my "6 months after graduation" period. They didn't care if I found a job in my field. They weren't concerned about helping me. They weren't interested in keeping their side of the deal. They only cared about their stupid statistics. If it weren't for the high job placement rate advertised to me at the admissions office, I wouldn't have signed up for classes with DeVry University. They made it seem like they had connections with corporations and would guarantee at least an interview.

I am currently at the same company as I was in 2012. I am still making about the same amount of money. The only difference is now I have an extremely large amount of debt. Debt with monthly payments so high, that I had to request an extended plan. Debt so high that it will take me 30 years to pay off on that extended plan. Debt so high that it will cost me double, DOUBLE my original amount if I continue at my current monthly payments. Debt so high that it will cost the price of a house in my neighborhood. Debt so high that it's causing stress, panic and duress. Debt so high that it's not going away. I hope that this review can help other people like me avoid the trap that DeVry continues to advertise and market. No one should have to go through this.

After I confronted the Dean on the issue and how she allowed another student to work from home with no issue. He passed the class. I received a F turning in the same complete work. The Dean changed my grade to a C with false class work she made me complete in 3 min to change my grade to a C. My grade should have been higher but this would possibly save them. I have had many issue from having to sign documents so Devry would continue to get support from the government, and other things. Devry ruined my VA Post-9/11 to where I had to pay back most of it during my attendance. I don't know what else to do???

They refused to assist me in any way and once I started the class our instructor had never taught before and he had no clue how to teach the material so new learners could understand it. I tried to do the work staying late in the computer lab to complete the homework but the computers were full of viruses and the Visual Studio was so unstable that everyone was struggling. I had to drop the class before it impacted my GPA and the only thing my counselor could suggest was that I change my major, which is what I did despite the fact that I had wanted to go in a completely different direction. I had so many other issues that I should have left the school way before I did but I was trying to honor the contract that I had signed.

I also had trouble getting the financial advisers to explain the financial aid I was receiving but repeatedly they told me don't worry about it they would take care of it. They did not explain to me that if I dropped both classes I was taking during the same semester that financial aid would not pay anything which left me owing money that I was unaware of until I tried to get my transcript. They claim I owe them $3,000 and that I can't get my transcript until I pay it off. My student loans had went into default at one point and some guy from Devry contacted me saying that I owed $2000 for a Perkins load through the school and so I had asked him if I paid it off would that take care of everything I owed the school and he told me yes.

In 2013 I consolidated my student loans taking them out of default and the Perkins loan was paid off so I thought it was taken care of. I tried to get my transcript and they hit me with the $3000 they claim I owe. I am at another school now and getting close to finishing my degree taking classes that I know I needed but I need my credits for the classes I took at Devry to finish. I don't have the money to pay it and now I don't know what to do. This whole situation with Devry has really been a nightmare.

Devry's degree means nothing but toilet paper - just wipe your **. If you are passionate about your career and want to advance further in life (which I believe you are and thats why you are here) this is NOT where you want to go to. DeVry and such universities should immediately close down. If all you folks want to get together and protest against such schools, I'm in. Let me know when and where.

Anyway I was told to reduce classes and the out of pocket would be solved. So I did just that I requested that since my coach knew what I was covered to take for her to just assign my classes every semester and I would take them, simple enough. Well April 2015 I received notification stating that my loan and my classes weren't balancing out, I had a greater amount of loan used than classes completed. I proceeded to contact my success coach. After nearly 3 weeks of calling and leaving messages she return my call and told me I was nowhere near completion. I needed 124 units and only completed 24 of those and that if I were taking more classes I would have been closer to completion. I would not be graduating for at least another 4 years!! It is now May 2015 needless to say I no longer want to be a student here.

I am in debt thousands of dollars and feel I have nothing to show for it. I was told if I withdrawal now I will owe for March session which I completed and passed and also May session which has begun 2 weeks ago and they will not release my transcripts if there is a balance on my account. I do not want to continue to give my loan money to Devry. I feel I have wasted 3 years believing that I was close to accomplishing something, to be completely let down. I am extremely disappointed at this time and just want to move on to a school where I am able to complete my degree and move on with life. I will be taking this directly to NELNET in regards to owing March and May sessions and seeking advice on how to receive my transcripts so that I may move on to another school as I strive for success.

So after arguing with them for weeks they told me they will give me a grant for $250 for March and $250 for May session. I still did not receive my funds for the March session and now that March spring session is wrapping up, I did my financial aid for the summer session and I still don't know what I'm getting. I think they are waiting until I get in this class and let weeks go by before they respond to my emails and phone calls and then tell me once again that I won't get it so by the time I try to drop out or transfer to another school, it will be too late and I will owe them money. Their financial aid officers are horrible. They never return anyone phone calls and they never know the answer to what I'm talking about. I'm still showing a credit on my account which is owed to me and they won't release it so now I'm contacting an attorney and will not be returning to this school.

I do not have enough financial aide left to continue with a different school, even if I got lucky and didn't have the holds on my account. I have to finish with DeVry and only have 5 classes left. I can't believe DeVry is that money hungry to leave me out in the pasture to die. I am a straight "A" student with a 4.0. I can't anyone at DeVry to communicate with me and pay this semester so the holds are released so I can finish my final 5 classes. This is not right, not right at all. I do not recommend this school to anyone. I am just here because I have nowhere else to go.

What I didn't like is the fact that it would take me 2 1/2 yrs. to obtain my AA instead of 18 months like the ad says. Financial aid put me in a situation where I could only take 4 units in one section and 3 in the other section for a whole semester. Devry is very strict with their payments. They do not offer flexible payment plans. When I started the advisor enrolled me in classes that exceeded the units financial aid was going to cover for, and I had financial aid after me for out of pocket expenses. They kept telling me they wanted me to pay and blaming me for going over the units. They placed a hold on my account until I paid them. Good thing it was just $100. I was told if I didn't pay I couldn't take my next math class. If I was to go to a community college I can take more units and for less money.

The tuition is $600 a unit, and at the community college it is $47. I am going to transfer my credits from Devry to my community college. I decided to switch major since I already have a certificate on the legal field. I am going to go for my AA at the community college. Now I have to pay a $150 fee to withdraw from my class plus 75% percent of the tuition for the section. I did learn a lot; I cannot say I did not. I am satisfied with the books. They are great. The only problem is the financial aid, and also the staff at the campus. Career services told me twice they cannot find an internship because they don't get any HIT medical billing and coding job offers. Once again I am going to say it's up to the student to learn and be motivated to finding employment.

So the bottom line: is Devry worth it? Honestly NO! You're better off going to a county college and then transferring to a real university. Employers look at you as more marketable.

I had taken my placement tests and scored high in both Math and English. My counselor at the time called and congratulated me and asked if I was able to handle advanced classes and I said that I like to be challenged, but the classes that I had taken did not feel advanced or challenging at all. The same counselor tried convincing me to major in "liberal arts" and not English Literature because I "will get tired of all the English classes;" even though I want to become a writer and become an English Teacher. Being easy to please, I did major in Liberal Arts at the time, in denial and regret after I had made that choice. Later in the year, I had realized that they didn't offer English Literature Degrees during my registration.

Many months into the school year I realized that this school was a joke and that the classes that I was taking did not teach me anything at all. I had taken a course called COLL 148, keeping in mind that these classes were 8 weeks long, we had presentations every time I went to class. It would be fine if we had presentations that had to do with the class, but instead, they were presentations on "Devry's education plan" or "Planning our schedule ahead" or even "Learning to write an essay." The presentations were not from the teacher, but from the staff. In total, I believe that I had 3 or 4 days of my 7 days for that class (not counting 8 because we didn't go to class for our final) where the teacher actually taught us anything.

After that session was over, I realized that this school was not fit for me, being an 18 year old who graduated fresh out of high school to take the more challenging road into college. I had already registered for my next classes in November of 2014 and I took 3. One on campus and 2 online. I was struggling with the online classes because they were very confusing and the professors online do not bother to help you when you ask them for help. The class that I was taking on campus was an English class and I was really looking forward to this since I enjoy writing. I sat through the class, unbelievingly sitting there while the teacher was teaching us how to write an essay. It was elementary all over again. The blame is not towards the professors at all, but towards the fact that they need to follow this type of teaching plan.

Three weeks into that session, I realized that I was finished with this school and that I would rather start at a community college where I can get some kind of education. My first step was to email my counselor and let her know that I wanted to drop the classes and drop out of that school. She emailed me back the following day and she let me know that I will receive a further email stating my amount after it was deducted from the remaining class days. As I did receive the email a couple of days after, I didn't realize that I had to pay an amount of almost $2,900 out of pocket. No one made it clear to me that my loan company would not cover that portion. I received a bill one month for an amount due, which was around $750. I put the bill to the side, not discarding it, thinking that the loan would pay for that also.

The second month I got a bill for twice that amount, the other being from a past due bill. I didn't realize until I had contacted my counselor that I had to pay that amount out of pocket. Under no intention was I planning to play the sympathy card, I was just letting them know that I came from a single working parent and a sister who completes our house payments and utilities. I was working a part time job that I had to quit, due to it involving in my education and school schedule. I told my counselor that there was no way that I could pay that amount and if I can pay something less every month, but all I got was a closed door every time I would ask. My other problem during this, was that I applied to a community college and I wasn't allowed to take classes without a transcript. That is not a problem considering that there was a hold on my account preventing me from being able to request a transcript.

At this point I hit rock bottom and thought that I was going to be in debt and not be able to go to college and continue my goal of being an English teacher. I got threats of being sent to collections and having a bad credit if I do not pay for it. I couldn't take this risk so I had contacted an 'out of school' finance and I spoke to a lady who heard my story and let me pay the amount at a less payment every month. This was working fine for me until I realized that I was still not able to get a transcript without paying that full amount.

Once again I got a closed door every time I asked. They expect me to pay a small amount every month, which I was doing every month and on time, but they wouldn't, under any circumstance, provide me with a transcript so I can continue my education because it was under "Devry's Policy". So what year am I supposed to go back to college? 2020? It is unfair in many levels, especially for families who are unable to provide so much.

I thought that I would try to speak to finance one more time about getting a transcript, but she already had her word for it. I didn't want them to win this battle, but I had no choice but to pay the full amount (after I had spoken to my sister for help). Even though my sister struggled with this, she was willing to give me the money so I can continue my education. Once I paid the amount, by phone to finance, I asked and she made it clear that I was able to request a transcript and that my hold will be removed right away. I waited about half an hour until I went online and tried requesting a transcript, unsurprisingly, I had two holds on my account (the same holds that were there before). Nothing had been removed. I checked my payment statement online and it showed that I had paid my full amount, but no hold was removed.

I did notice another thing, there was an 'out of school' balance for $2,100. I thought that there was no way I was going to pay this amount because as soon as I paid my other bill, they surprise me with another. I have nothing that shows I have to pay that amount and I am unaware of what it is for. I contacted my counselor who said that this "was a mistake" and that she would let her manager know as soon as possible. She told me to request my transcript tonight or tomorrow because the amount and the hold will be removed.

As I checked tonight, one hold was removed, but I still had another hold. Where I have to pay $2,100. That was not removed. It is always a roller coaster ride with this school. I can't wait to hear their excuse on why I have to pay that much. They give me news that I want to hear and then hit me hard with something I don't. I am done with this school and all its catches and scams. Never did I think that I would have a problem like this. They need to fix their finance issues because it is affecting many people and causing others to pay money for unknown or unclear reasons.

Entire professor assistance and interaction when asked specifically for help: 1st Professor asked: "Keep on keeping on." 2nd Professor asked: "You're over thinking it." While there are some great professors involved with this school, about every third one or so are completely uncaring, unhelpful, and disregard students all together. Asking for help when struggling often gets no response.

Other Issues: Online class required a download (which turned out to not even be necessary) which gave my computer a horrible virus. When asked for assistance, I was told by the VP that I would be "contacted by Tuesday" regarding the matter, but that the school was not responsible. That was around 8 months ago, and I am still waiting.

Academic Advisement Team: Non existent. "Critical thinking" is a prerequisite course which is intended to help students understand the college environment, rules, regulations, and basic navigation. This course was never brought to my attention, and I spent 5 or 6 semesters questioning everything, completely unaware that this course was supposed to help orient students. I have still not once been "advised" on a single thing here.

Online system malfunctions: When enrolled in online courses, we as students have no control over the system supported our education. When this system fails, which it does VERY OFTEN, professors still apply deductions to our grades, rather than allow make up time, or acknowledge that such a thing is not the student's fault. These malfunctions can cut a week's worth of time on an assignment down to just two or three days, and we still get graded as if we had the full week.

Student Feedback options: At the end of every course, there are two surveys to help "make DeVry better." One is for the course attended, and the other is for the school. At the end of each, we are asked if we would like to be contacted regarding the matter. I have answered "yes" to any that I had concerns with, yet regardless of specifying contact through email or telephone, have not once been contacted.

I am anywhere between minutes and days from dropping out of my first college attempt due to the lack of consideration provided by this money hungry, neglectful excuse for a school. I ask the general public to PLEASE find a way to do better by yourselves than attempt this alleged learning experience. It truly is not worth all the hassle.

I once opted to take an online course because the onsite one was full, which turned out to be a huge mistake. The software required for my course was not compatible with my computer, I couldn't use it on a school computer, and since I didn't want to go out and buy a whole new laptop for one course, I was forced to drop the class, and of course, I still had to pay for it. I had one semester where my student success coach was changed THREE times. You can't enroll without one, for whatever insane reason that is, so when I finally met my third coach who happened to only know about the nursing program (I was a clinical laboratory science major) I ended up wasting a good hour of my day trying to explain to her what she was supposed to do and what classes I should be in.

My clinical rotations were a complete screw up. My first rotation turned out to NOT EVEN EXIST. Of course I wasn't informed of this until two days before I was supposed to show up for it. I was constantly belittled by the Dean and Assistant Dean of the program. We all were. We were treated like children who were completely incapable of doing anything. I did not receive any help whatsoever in my job hunt. The ONLY reason I had a job in my career field before I graduated was because of the friends I had made through the program who provided excellent references. I actually got my job IN SPITE of this useless excuse for a school.

My education was completely inadequate and outrageously overpriced. My degree cost about twice what I was originally quoted when I enrolled. I actually maxed out the amount of financial aid I was allowed to receive by my last semester. By the time I graduated I had to pay them $2000. I am now 57 thousand dollars in debt (that's only counting my loans. My actual degree cost around 90 thousand) with a degree from a school that is not even remotely respected in my career field. There is not enough time in the day for me to list everything that is wrong with that place other than JUST DON'T DO IT. Like other people have said, if there is some kind of lawsuit involved with this school, I want in on it.

I did want to add by putting in the positive about how my experience going there. Most of the professors were great. I liked them a lot, and they did manage to give me some help in some areas in my work (on campus). The clubs they allowed us to form was great since we manage to meet new people and make new friends which I still tend to see and hangout with. They had great customer assistance. I was able to talk to someone and they manage to see me ASAP.

Aside from that I couldn't think of anything else to support Devry as a great school. Aside from the professors being great when they first formed the school in my area the professors they had there had no knowledge to what they were teaching. Even though they helped me they didn't know what they were teaching and we were both in an area that we were trying to figure out what to actually learn. By them allowing this it led to so much free passes and us not gaining any actual information on what we were trying to learn at times. The way we were going to learn anything we had to look in the book, the most confusing text book that we had for the most part at times.

Even though they helped me with assistance they didn't give me proper guidance in what to do at times or for the most part, and when talking to my student success coach (who is there to help me to get my degree which helped well at my point) there were instances where I left there feeling that I wouldn't be going nowhere with my degree. After a certain point of going to Devry for a while and being in many position that didn't help me pass my classes I would go to my success coach for help. I want to add that I always told people I do not like online classes since I need a physical person for help since online stinks at actually helping you at all. Even though Devry saying at times is that it helps getting to your goal in degree or something like that I asked for help, and my student success coach would tell me that I have to take online which I couldn't do. I pleaded with her if I can wait or do something, but she insisted and told me that I had no other option and "I had" to take online. I failed so many times because they put me in a position where I couldn't get any help and made me take an option that I knew that I would fail every single time.

Sure it was my fault to take the class online, but even though I got to a point where I would feel since I took the class I can quit ASAP before the second week (since you would get the money back before then), but since I was unable to drop the class before I got to that point I had to pay the class. Since they were closed on the weekend and for the most part I can tell most people would at least want to try before they quit even though they have taken the class already. The reason I was too late is because the work wasn't due until Saturday night if I can remember correctly, and I wanted nothing more than just to pass my class and not quit. To be able to get close to achieve my degree.

For the online class I wouldn't say they are impossible to pass it's just if you're planning on getting help to pass the class you're just going to run into trouble in any case. I took online and from what I can remember correctly at that time they didn't help me at all. I would ask the teacher for help, and I would get a response later the next day with something in the words of "I don't get what you're saying. Can you please be more specific?". How can that help me if the teacher is going to give me a notice the next day. By the time I got an actual response the homework would be due. When I got close to the point of me stopping they just started an online tutoring to help you at home for my final class there. I tried, but for the most part it didn't help. Trying to get a tutor online is like winning the lottery. It would be impossible to actually get someone since everyone needed help.

As for the tutors they had there, it wasn't bad, but they would have someone who is taking classes at Devry and make them help you with your classes by tutoring. It didn't help me much since most of the tutors there were my friends, and also the times I was to come and get tutoring they were not available. Even though they were my friends they wouldn't help me off the clock which kind of frustrates me that they wouldn't offer that help. I just wished they had people who could help in those cases since when I got help from them (just once) they had to look at the book again to remind themselves how to do the problem again. I kind of understand but it still stinks.

Their financial help wasn't as helpful from how they are. When I got to the very end they told me that I had $8,000 left at Devry from what I was told, and when I went to see them again they said I had nothing. I recently talked to them about it, and they told me that the income goes in other places (which I don't remember what they said), but it didn't make sense since I wasn't taking any classes at the times, and from what I was told it was paying the school. I don't know how that's the case.

So the thing that made me stop going to Devry wasn't my choice to stop unlike now, but the fact that I got a bill that I had to pay, and since I wasn't going to classes I had to start paying my loans. At the times I didn't know what option I had since this was my first University experience and I didn't have any actual knowledge on what to do in these cases. I then just started to ask for a deferment to stop from being charged and at that point I started to pay off the bill so I can continue my education. After so long of repeatedly asking for a deferment I finally paid the bill, but at that point I had no actual feeling of going to Devry anymore. After being in a position I was in I had no real intention on going back, but unaware to my knowledge I had no idea that I had another bill/loan that I took from Devry which was in the beginning when I first started. I probably signed it, but I don't remember, and why would I want to take a loan right off the back of starting to go to Devry?

The loan was a Private Loan which was from some company or something. I have yet to figure it out, but as I got a letter from it they always used Devry University name within the loan. I contacted them to sort this out after a constant argument for some answer, and when I called Devry about it they told me that the loan had nothing to do with them. If that was the case why would this loan brand itself towards Devry if they didn't have anything to do with this loan? It got to a point where it went to a collection agent. I contacted them since before it got to this point I was trying to figure out how to fix this, but no one actually gave me any answers instead told me to call Sallie Mae which made no sense since it wasn't tied to them.

This is pretty much my review and my experience at Devry. I would say that Devry is a University that is good for someone who is able to handle things themselves or people who form a team to help each other out which I didn't have that option. Now where I'm at I'm getting my loans and my one private loan to be combine together, and because I have asked for a deferment for quite a while to pay a bill I'm in a bad position. Devry might screwed me up by not being there to help as they should have, but it did help me to realize what I'm actually good at aside from what I was going to do at Devry. I hope this review helps you to identify what Devry is like or whether Devry is good for you from my experience. If you do plan on still going to Devry good luck to you.