DeVry University reviews

4.3

82% would recommend to a friend

(1,424 total reviews)
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Elise Awwad

86% approve of CEO

85% positive business outlook

DeVry University has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,424 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The DeVry University employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Jul 18, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Pay and benefits are decent.

Cons

HEAVY sales focus, especially lately. They tell you it’s in the name of providing good service but that’s only because the law prohibits sales quotas. Everything is geared towards getting information about students to then use against them to guilt them into applying. If students didn’t fall for the tricks, DeVry would be out of business. If you drink the kool-aid, ignore all the shady procedures, and be “positive” constantly you can go far. Asking too many questions gets you ostracized and labeled negative. They always want more out of you. Hit your goal? Here’s a higher one. Time is so micromanaged, you’re expected to be constantly working. Management operates by looking at numbers on spreadsheets and finding “areas of improvement”

2.0
Jan 1, 2018

Don't Feel Valued

Recommend
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Pros

Telecommuting, good learning management system

Cons

Inconsistent course scheduling, no mentoring, poor benefits

2.0
Dec 6, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay for higher education, and great benefits. The best part about DeVry was the people- great employees who have a good work ethic and really care about the students.

Cons

The cons far outweigh the pros and it ends up feeling like a toxic environment. I have never been overworked or micromanaged to the level I was while working at DeVry. They monitor every second you are logged into the phones, and you have only a few minutes between calls to write follow up emails and update all your systems (and there are many) before getting an IM asking why you aren’t back in Ready Status. It’s baffling- there’s so many departments to contact, so many cumbersome business processes to work around that its quite stressful to do all of that within 2 min between calls. Thing slip easily through the cracks here because the focus is not on caring for the student and doing whatever we can for them, but hurrying to go back into Ready to maintain our SLAs. In all of my one on one meetings here, we never talked about advancement or anything else besides “what can you do to decrease your Not Ready time?” With all the complaints and uncertainty surrounding DeVry, why is management’s focus always only on SLAs? Shouldn’t it be about student retention and how we can care for them better?

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