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Devry University - DeVry is a Scam!

  • by   Sep 20, 2010
  • Review #: 199181
CompanyDevry University
Product / ServiceEducation
Location Orlando, Florida
Category Education
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The main reason consumers remove their complaints from companies like is because they are threatened with lawsuits among other threats. Most businesses like know the unlikelihood of students taking legal actions against their well-paid aggressive lawyers. is known to hire people simply to review any negative comments/complaints against them on the Internet. These people are paid employees of to defend the reputation of their company regardless of the numerous legitimate complaints against them. Ever wonder why expands their Business to areas where they know they'll get the most tuition paid for with . The company has expanded its operation in Latin American markets like Brazil and is looking to expand more abroad. Lack of government regulations on businesses like fails to protect consumers who are misled by their promise of providing a superior higher education. 's executives are well-aware how easy it is to get rich taking advantage of students who won't have the resources necessary to hire a lawyer protecting their student rights when they are ripped off. AND RIP OFF IS WHAT IS. Don't be fooled by their ads or recruiting personnel. These are well-trained individuals working only for 's best interests and they make big money for every enrolled student who signs a contract!. Do the research and be aware that most of the encouraging comments posted for are made by paid employees and not actual students". Students rarely have time from their studies to post complaints if they weren't legit and if provided them an upright education!.
traditional non profit schools are the best choice where the primary concern is education not the for profit con job thrives on:. is a so don't fall for the hype from their savoir-faire employees:. Their associates are well-paid to mislead consumers to sign their contract,. Hook, line and sinker is what they say!. 's primary interest is profit and not quality education;. If you want a quality education, look elsewhere.
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hammerman hammerman
Oct 03, 2012 
Well the school is for profit...that should be one sign.

also you can transfer to/from credits from other private/public school...Why? well it's not an acredited school..

SO yes it is a scam
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DeVry Visiting Professor DeVry Visiting Professor
Sep 06, 2012 
I am gone now. I lasted six months and couldn't mislead anymore. I threw my blue badge out the car window and told the front office that ripping off poor kids with promises of bright futures with a McDegree and big debt was a crime against the youth of this nation. Please listen students! Go to your local junior college like President Obama suggests. Get an AA/AS without debt and then decide what you really want to study. I felt awful when an 18 year-old student, usually poor-as-dirt and from Chicago's Westside, told me how he was going to be a biomedical engineer in three years when he couldn't write a sentence. However, the "advisors" have no problem with this fantasy since they get rewarded based on how many remedial students they can sucker out of the 'hood with promises of being a full-fledged bourgeois in three years if they only sign for the loan and burden themselves with a debt that many don't understand. Remember, these "advisors" are not social workers! They are working a boiler room and prey on those seeking to better themselves. They get a percentage.
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DeVry Visiting Professor DeVry Visiting Professor
Aug 30, 2012 
Look at their business model? They get first generation college students, largely people from underserved urban neighborhood schools, and make them sign for student loans. Once the student wises up and realizes they are paying 20-30K for a three quarters worth of retaught high school, and the remedial classes count for nothing, they bounce to a community college with a big debt and no real credits. The place should be shut down by the Justice Department since all of the tuition is paid for with federal money. They also love to get veterans so they can drain their GI Bill without them getting much of a degree. Remember, I am on the inside. Go to a community college, get an AA or AS, and then decide what you want to study. DeVry will be exposed for the fraud that it is.
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DeVry Visiting Professor DeVry Visiting Professor
Aug 18, 2012 
You kids are right. Run from this school. My job isn't to teach, it is to keep you taking loans and more classes. I warn the students I can "trust" and send them to community colleges. Right now, I am playing the game and drawing a paycheck because it beats homelessness.
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50 grand for an associates 50 grand for an associates
Mar 19, 2012 
Going to DeVry was the worst decision of my life. I'm now taking classes at a community college for the sole purpose of deferring my huge loans. I was unable to get a job in IT after 200 resumes submitted online. I have them numbered in my gmail account. I complained to them and they set me up with their "career adviser". He looked at my resume and said "looks fine to me" and then told me I needed to go to some networking meetings. Their career fair was an absolute joke. The one legitimate IT company in the building needed a bachelors degree and several certs in order to hire. They don't even prepare you enough for a cert exam, let alone 2-3 for a cert! I don't even know why they were there. Has anyone had luck in bankrupting loans involving DeVry? I wasn't able to get into my career field until I had taken several classes at the community college.
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Trevor Gillett Trevor Gillett
Feb 22, 2012 
I am currently enrolled at DeVry University and within 15 classes of finishing. When I first signed up I had more than enough funding to finish my degree even if I had to retake a few classes. Now Being this close to finishing I have reached my "Aggragated Loan Level". Now I have gone over the numbers several times and have had someone else look at the numbers as well. I at some times was being charged double for the classes I was taking. I have tried to be civil with the financial aid office and explain, and send documentation to prove to them that I still have enough funding to finish. I am told that I am harassing the financial aid office, that I am to either get a private loan for $20k to finish or continue to pay back the loans that I currently have in order to take more classes. Now you are suppose to get 6 months before your have to make any payments on your loans after your drop/ graduate. Less than a month after not being able to attend the next session I was getting calls for being default on my loans that I had been paying on. Well there were a few loans that I was not aware of. There were 4 other loans that totaled $13,236 that I had not been paying on which I was now default on according to the loan company. I have contacted a lawyer to help get this disputed. I am told that this is not the first time that DeVry has been accused of providing lesser education at a higher education price, or having problems with their financial aid office and their... Show more
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James James
Feb 15, 2012 
DeVry's financial offices conveniently tell new students that everything is covered with their scholarships (Bright Futures)m military aid and grant money. They collect all the money and students get below standard education since DeVry can't afford qualified instructors for all their courses. Some are former washed up business execs who declared bankruptcy and were hire by DeVry. I had 2 such instructors in my business course and I was appalled that they had never had any experience in teaching and were hired on the basis of their outdated degrees or knowing someone in corporate. The last thing any student wants as an instructor is an executive ranting about how he lost his business due to the bad economy and no fault of his own. He also had 2 other failed businesses. Why is this 'loser' teaching a business course at DeVry? Left after the 2nd semester of this bullsh@#t school. Don't waste your money at DeVry. Local colleges don't make you sign over your federal aid money like these DeVry crooks. Glad I found a way out to save my college education and future. Don't make the same mistake I did right out of High School.My current employer advised me to also leave DeVry off my resume since many companies won't hire DeVry students or graduates.
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DeVry Fails Students DeVry Fails Students
Feb 11, 2012 
DeVry shares sharply down after profit plunges 90 percent.... :grin :grin :grin :grin :grin :grin :grin :grin :grin :grin :grin :grin :grin :grin :grin :grin ... Show more
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Juana Isela Juana Isela
Feb 08, 2012 
I am an ex former DeVry student and i have had several problems with this so called "Good Private college" I enrolled in January of 2011 and dropped out around the end of September, or the begining of October. with this being said you can obviously tell that i was NOT even enrolled at DeVry Keller graduate school for EVEN a year! I am a 19 year old girl whonat the time was 18 years old and straight out of high school and was sold a dream by a so called "addmissions advisor" I was offered a scholarship due to my good grades in high school wich I don't understand as to why I would have to take out two loans if i had TWO grants and a SCHOLARSHIP. I am now in debt with 14,000 plus loans, without an education. My advice to any person out their, go to a community college.
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Cruz De La Garza Cruz De La Garza
Feb 08, 2012 
Yes, I am wit you, and so is my girlfriend Isela Magallon. Words alone cannot express the immense anger and distasteful sense I have towards DeVry for misleading me. I am with you RnBsinger75.
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Anthony Dial Anthony Dial
Nov 25, 2011 
I am seeking information,I am enrolled at a DeVry Keller Grad School Program. I have had a number of problems with the online course. I have reported it to them and they have done nothing to assist me. They have done nothing but showed me indifference.
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Anthony Dial Anthony Dial
Nov 25, 2011 
I am seeking information,I am enrolled at a DeVry Keller Grad School Program. I have had a number of problems with the online course. I have reported it to them and they have done nothing to assist me. They have done nothing but showed me indifference.
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Anthony Dial Anthony Dial
Nov 25, 2011 
I am enrooled in a grad program at DeVry Keller Grad School. It is a rip off. They are a cloak operation. Please contact me
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Thomas Thomas
Apr 24  from Los Angeles, California
Hey I am getting ready to attend DeVry Grad School also but I do not think I am going to go now. By what I am reading now I think I am going to change my mind right away. Can you tell me more about your experience please
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BigR BigR
Jul 06, 2011 
I don't know about DeVry of the current date. I graduated in 1988 with a BS EET. I was happy with the school and it's accreditation. I was hired during my last month of school and went to work with only a week vacation between school. I have traveled around the world and I am still employed by the same employer. I have worked overseas since my graduation and am very happy with the money and job career.
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eyeswideopen eyeswideopen
Feb 18, 2011 
I am currently a student at Devry's North Brunswick campus. Initially I was somewhat skeptical when I applied to the Keller School of Management. The admissions adviser, upon meeting and sitting down with her for my initial interview, was a bit pushy and would not let me finish my sentences, as she finished them for me telling what I would want to do (I HATED THAT!) To make a long story short, I did apply, only through the advice of a friend. Some other friends warned me though. One guy said that they will accept anyone off the street.

The process however raised some flags for me. First the person I did the interview with was supposed to walk me through the rest process but she was going on vacation the next day, so she asked if another adviser would help while she was away. I hope she doesn't ask him for any more favors because this guy wasn’t helpful at all! I had to track him down half the time and when I finally set up for an appointment with him at a specific time and date, I found out that day that he left early! Where is the professionalism??? Anyway some other guy helped me out with the rest of what I had to do and I was good to go. Well, maybe not so good.

As I went through my first two classes I noticed that they make a huge emphasis and making the curriculum a bit easy for you to pass. I have NEVER been in any class, other than a statistics class in college, where all of the exams in the class are open book or notes. All the tests
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Chris Chris
Feb 11, 2011 
Their attorney has threatened me to sign their proposal otherwise they will take legal action against me to pay for a class I never took. The reason why I dropped out of the class the 1st day is they replace the original instructor with someone who had no prior teaching experience. My mom came to meet my Professor before my 1st class & it was obvious thet he had been partying the night before with the amount of booze that was on his breath. We reported it & requested a different class and instructor but they denied our request stating it was a class needed to be taken. They apparently didn't have any other instrutors to teach the course the drunk was supposed to teach & now they are demanding payment or to agree to their contract terms of partial class tuition. They are a bunch of crooks and my mom shouldn't have to go through this stress because of unethical business practices.

There are new laws being reviewed in Congress now to set regulations on these scam businesses that put themselves off as educational univ. Shut them down before they ruin hundreds of unsuspecting students education & lives.
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stogho stogho
Jan 17, 2011 
I completely agree, I wish I had never heard of Devry. After 4 years of lost time I completed my degree in CIS and now owe way too much money for a degree that taught me nothing but to get by in classes.

I would never recommend this "school" to anyone and if a class action lawsuit ever comes around add me to the list.
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Michael O. Michael O.
Jan 17, 2011 
I wish I had never heard of DeVry, it cost way too much money, wasted way too much time and after my degree have learned nothing from them that will gain me anything in business. If anyone needs another petitioner for a class action count me in.
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lady lady
Nov 06, 2010 
I you started a class action sue against DeVry
please contact me. I live in Miami.count me in
thank you

blair_123@live.com
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