Does anyone know how transfer friendly Devry is?

TomAtkins

Does anyone know how transfer friendly Devry is?

I was looking through my transcritps form community college, a lot of the classes to don't quite line up exactly with the titles of the Devry classes, but for the most part the class I'd like to transfer in covers part of, or in some cases is a more advanced class of the Devry version.

Does anyone know if they would likely give transfer credit for those? Or would they likely make me take the Devry class?

Thanks,
Tom

networker050184

Your best bet is to contact them and find out. Straight from the horse's mouth so to say.

TechZilla

They are somewhat easy going about transfers for general classes. I recommend against DeVry though. I payed a lot of money for 2 semesters and walked away passing all my classes but actually learning close to nothing. WGU would be a much better direction if you are self motivated, if not find a real classroom.

Just my .02

ptilsen

The better questions are "How good is the education?" and "How do employers look upon it?"

I would advise against Devry.

chrisone

I believe I transfered all my Junior College units, I was pretty much done with all my general ED courses. So transferring them was easy as they were all standard general ED units and those are acceptable in pretty much any school in your respective state. If you have non general ED units, then yeah I would investigate exactly what DeVry accepts.

Good luck and dont be discouraged.

amcnow

Sorry to sidestep your question. I completed my undergrad at a for-profit school (ITT Technical Institute). While I hear DeVry is somewhat better than ITT Tech, I highly advise against for-profit education. You can find better brick and mortar schools with cheaper tuition. If you're willing to consider online schools, I highly recommend WGU.

cisco_trooper

Yeah, I agree. Avoid DeVry. I went and learned nothing and it costed a lot of money. By the time you realize you aren't going to learn anything you are so far in that you have to make a decision to stick it out knowing you aren't learning anything, or starting over at a REAL school since a REAL school won't accept most of Devry credit hours.

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chrisone

I hate to burst anyones bubble here but a degree is only going to get your foot in the door. You will still need to get certs in my opinion to go along with your experience in the field.

The fact is that a college degree gets your foot in the door. The reality is that your resume is in a stack with a bunch of people with college degrees. Now how do the employers differentiate between all these resumes with college degrees........its not hard to guess that one.

Goto the college and school that best fit your lifestyle, wallet, opportunities. An employer is not going to give much care to your degree between WGU, DeVry, ITT lol So goto school in mind that you are going to get certs after the fact and gain experience to land you jobs.

For those that just want to get a degree and stay with a devry or WGU degree, thanks , you are my competition lol!

QHalo

I went to and graduated from DeVry and I hate the high cost of any institution including state schools. Yeah it cost some cash to attend, but education isn't cheap at any institution in the US. There's a reason it was such a hot topic in the debates. Education is what you make of it. You can learn just as much or as little at DeVry as you can at DePaul if you don't apply yourself. If you're not learning anything, then perhaps you're not taking hard enough classes? The only reason that I've found attending a state or private school was so that people could oh and ah at dinner parties when they ask you where you went to school. Honestly, where you get your Masters seems to be more important these days. Lots of high end jobs asking for them. Oh and if people think that state schools aren't 'for-profit', they're fooling themselves. Those gigantic stadiums and multimillion dollar coaches salaries don't come from alumni contributions.

networkjutsu

Very easy to transfer credits in my experience. My courses from overseas were even credited (though, I had it evaluated). I was able to get over 60 units from college overseas, some IT courses I took from community colleges, and from AAS degree. One caveat though, I took the BS Technical Management degree with concentration in NCM and not the BS NCM. If I took the NCM degre then I'll only get about 30 credits. It was a no brainer for me. I was already working in the networking field at the time and was working on CCNP so having a degree that says "Network" in it won't do me any good if I was still paying for the student loans. After graduation, I paid it all off because I didn't want to pay the interest.