An honest review of DeVry University (formerly DeVry Institute of Technology) from a former student.
I am a graduate of DeVry University Long Beach. I received my associate’s degree in Electronics and Computer Technology in 2001 and have been working in the aerospace field for the last 11 years. I have no ties to Devry Long Beach, I am not being paid by them nor do I care to either pump them up or deflate them. I am strictly giving people who are interested in attending DeVry my real assessment of their education and job placement.
Instructors and Coursework - DeVry University
Like other schools, DeVry has some good professors and some bad. On the whole, I was pleased with my instructors. However, there were a couple of real dogs in there, guys who were completely unsuited for teaching. I’ve also attended Long Beach City College and the worst instructors there were no match for the instructors at DeVry Long Beach. I had a DeVry ‘physics’ professor who was so bad at teaching that he ultimately had to walk down the aisle during tests to coach students and work with them through problems since they were all completely clueless (myself included). To illustrate the point, I took an actual college-level physics course at Long Beach City a few years later and passed it with an A...and my instructor wasn’t coaching us during the test.
On the other hand, where DeVry University’s general ed instructors sometimes fail, their specialized coursework succeeds. My electronics labs were excellent and worthwhile and nearly all of my electronics instructors were good. Like most school work, you get what you put in to it. I put in a lot of effort because the material was exciting, and it truly was very cool. And the instructors for the electronics-based classes at DeVry Long Beach were very knowledgeable.
Course Costs - DeVry University
The tuition rates at DeVry are about twice the costs of other standard universities, with the difference being that DeVry gets you out much faster than a 4-year and has much better job placement (depending on your degree of study). DeVry tuition is currently listed at $8100 per semester. For my Electronics and Computer Technology degree which takes five semesters, that would amount to $45k. I was fortunate enough to have a GI Bill which helped to subsidize my tuition, and I make about $70k per year now from the job that DeVry placed me in. Still, this is quite expensive for an associate’s degree education so you need to really consider what you’re signing up for at DeVry. To their credit though, DeVry financial aid tries very hard to assist students in getting what they need to cover the bills (especially the staff at DeVry Long Beach). They know it’s expensive.
Campus Atmosphere and Facilities - DeVry University (Long Beach, CA)
The atmosphere and facilities of DeVry Long Beach leave a lot to be desired. Much of this is due to the student culture (or lack therof, see DeVry Long Beach student culture), but some of it is specifically due to the facility itself. The typical University campus is rather sprawling, with grassy areas and other locations where you can kind of chill out and gather your thoughts. Not so DeVry Long Beach. This DeVry University Campus is as cold and unwelcoming as you can get. I’m not sure how much it’s changed since I attended, but it’s basically a two story building paralleling the Long Beach airport runway in the middle of an office park. The only thing more embarrassing than the cafeteria food is the available seating. The parking has improved somewhat since they’re now off-loading people to a parking structure, but there’s nothing more annoying than having a DeVry rent-a-cop give you a parking ticket.
The computer lab at DeVry Long Beach is fairly standard, I wouldn’t give it rave reviews but I wouldn’t call it terrible either. The library on the other hand is completely worthless for studying (or even finding books). Completely worthless. You would do better going down the street to study at Cal State Long Beach.
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I was a part of your same class. I 100% agree with your review of the DeVry experience, btw I forgot about that Shalabi dude. He copied my lab work all the time. I can't believe he even got into Boeing for a day, we even had to do a lab entrance exam for that interview ?? I appreciate DeVry and still work in the same field that DeVry got me into. I had a a job before graduating. I didn't go into aerospace, I went into post production media. I use about 5% of what I learned at DeVry but nonetheless it was a good experience.
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