I found when taking classes at devry they babied you through the work. If you had a lab to complete, they would take you through step by step, telling you what to do, not why you're doing it or how its working. I dont think I ever failed an exam there, even the ones I didnt know squat about, just put down something that looks like it could be an answer and you'll get partial credit. Most of the tests were open book. And almost everyone cheated at least once. It is entirely possible that your employee cheated his way through school, or just went with the flow and didnt bother to retain any knowledge. I took a networking class, the tests were a joke, and the labs were pathetic. They guided me through every lab, I had no idea what I was doing!

Then I go to a state school, and all of a sudden my tests are closed book. I found you cant get past these tests unless you know what you are doing! You need to understand the fundamentals and theory behind what you are working on or else you will fail. There is no partial credit, you either know the answer or you dont. The professors will help you in the labs, but they will not guide you through them. They are there for you IF you come across a problem in the lab, or you have a question. They will explain what you need to do, but not how to do it. You learn so much more this way it's amazing.

Yeah, you're right. You are judging 50,000 other people based on one guy. Who did you say you hire for? You are a professional hiring manager for a big company and you are that biased, narrow-minded and predisposed to wild exaggerations of stereotyping behavior? You won't last long in your line of work, I'm afraid.

I went to two different state schools, two community colleges, and a few military and civilian technical school courses; haven't quiet finished a full degree yet. I'm taking classes at DeVry University now. This is by far the best school I've found to date. These previous posters I'm unfortunatly forced to believe are either imposters or found a DeVry adjuct that is violating all of their rules therefore violating the Higher Learning Commission's accreditation requirements. DeVry is accredited with the same Dept. of Education process as any and every state university in the country. It is not a technical school. DeVry/Keller was just recently awarded Project Managment Instute's Global accreditation. It's one of the very few universities in the world with that accreditation. Google it.

All of my tests are difficult, even the open book weekly exams. And I've had a fulfilling career already servicing top of the line military grade avionics and developing bleeding edge technology and microchip work at Texas Instruments, among other things.

After graduating with AP honor classes in physics in high school, on top of all my real world electronics and physics work at TI; I made a B in my DeVry physics class. It was that hard. I almost made B's in my psyc classes at DeVry, but my wife and friends helped me study harder to keep those A's. (Wife and friends couldn't help with the physics class.)

State schools are not always closed book. I finished 2 junior level chemistry and some math classes at a state school that were open book and open notes exactly how DeVry is.

The largest benefit I've found at DeVry however are the professors. All of them are highly educated and most are actively employed in their professional field of expertise. One of my professors had designed computer simulations for NASA for 40 years. My C++ OOP professor was currently working for a software firm that does the software development for the Kennedy Space Port in Florida. Needless to say, they were phenominal professors of higher education.

I've been in the high tech industry for 10 years now, in both private and government sectors. I've meet more DeVry graduates in my career than probably any other. And I'm learning more at DeVry than I ever have in my life. I could not say that at the other school's I've been too previously. I highly recommend this school for any and every professional path you may be looking to get into today.