I graduated from DeVry back in Feb. of this year with an AS in the ECT program. When I first started a few years ago, my class was packed with students, mostly just out of High School. I was the old guy in the bunch, which made things interesting. By the end of the second week, about half the class had dropped out or transferred to another program. There is a pretty good explanation for this. Either they were directed into the program by a bad advisor, as mine was, or just weren't ready for the amount of work that was being thrown at them. I originally wanted to get me BA in Electronics Engineering, but the advisor told me not to go directly into that and get my AS first. When I graduated from that I could go into the AS program with my credits transferring over. Well right before I signed on the dotted line, they changed that and only a few credits transferred over. Once I found out, I was pretty unhappy, but decided to stick with it.
A lot of people believe DeVry to be a cakewalk school. In some instances I will agree completely, but like most of my classmates though after the first couple weeks of school, this is college, not High School where things will be handed to you. I had very strict teachers and very loose ones, but all of them knew their stuff. Throughout my schooling I transferred jobs, moved, etc. and it had a huge effect on my degree. what was supposed to take me 18 months ended up taking me almost 3 years. Halfway through I changed from full time to part time as hat's what my schedule allowed, and then to night classes and some online classes. The night classes I believe were some of the best classes I had there. Most of the professors aren't full time teachers, but work in the industry during the day and teach at night. Also the small class makes for some better interaction with each other and the professor.
The online classes at the time were only offered for my general education classes (english, psych, etc.) and were generally pretty easy. The biggest issue with the online classes is self dicapline and making sure that I logged in and did the discussions and read all the material. My last semester they offered a core class I had been waiting for and that went pretty good. It was the same quality of class I received at the school and took less time.
Still in the end of it all I was happy to finish with DeVry, but the lack of real jobs for an ECT grad made me a little angry. I went to almost every career fair and they all seemed to be geared towards IT, Business, and Software. There were the usual DoD companies, but they wanted Engineers really. I really felt cheated by DeVry after I left. I ended up working somewhere that had almost nothing to do with my degree. I've now just began talking to them again though and will be going back here next term to start on my BS degree.
So I would recommend this place if you are willing to really work hard. The classes are fast paced and can get complicated easily. The teachers just don't have the time to work with every student that's falling behind. Also understand this it's not Harvard so don't expect to be walking out with a 6 figure job. The degree will get you in the door, but it's you that need to carry it past that. I had one interview through the DeVry Career Services where the owner of a company asked me to figure out a simple resistor circuit (first electronics course stuff). I told him the answer and he looked at me sad. He told me that I was the first one to answer that question correctly that day. So, pay attention in class and ask for help. It will make all the difference.