Don't enroll in DeVry- find another college. Any other college!
I give this school a -5 star rating. RUN FAR AWAY FROM THEM!!


Where to start:
I am a current student at Devry, attempting to get my Bachelors in Business Management. I take online classes, I've taken 3 terms so far. This is the worst college I've ever attended (I've taken some transfer classes at 3 others). My dad is a teacher here, I get FREE tuition but I now REFUSE to get a degree from them. That is how much I dislike this school and how they "handle" themselves. I could get a free degree from them, but instead I'm choosing to pay for a degree at a different college!!

My dad is a teacher at a LA campus, and so I get to use his "vouchers" to pay for my classes. Great right?! It would be if their admin and HR did anything correct. ALL three terms I've been enrolled, the HR department has FAILED to submit those vouchers to the dean for signing. Thus, every term, I get a call once a week saying I owe them $1000-3000 dollars for tuition. Come time to enroll in the next term's classes I cannot because I have a financial hold since I "didn't" pay for the previous session's classes. And every term, more than once, I call the financial department and explain this situation in full, and every term I tell them to put this in the notes so that the next person will know the circumstances and not call saying I owe money, but then every term I get someone calling me saying I owe thousands of dollars for unpaid tuition fees. Literally, it is not until, at the earliest, a week before next term's classes start that they MIGHT submit them, it's even taken into the next term so at one point I wasn't able to enroll in classes until the classes already started! Every term I have to fight with them, and they say they can't do anything because it all depends on that specific HR department to submit the papers.
I have found that most of the teachers are ok, except for one: Brian Trautman who teaches COLL 148 (a mandatory class). He was the WORST teacher I've ever had(including middle, high, and other colleges I've attended). I spent the last 8 weeks trying to get through that damn class. we have to post in a threaded discussion three times a week, a couple times I only did it twice, and instead of giving me partial credit, he gave me none. I have asked him a few questions all I got was an automated response saying to go find the answer "here". I wouldn't have asked him the question if I was able to find the answer there. So I would ask again with a little more explanation and he would never respond- I STILL have yet to get a response from him and the class is over!
Also, By the end of the term I started to get worried about my grade and emailed him asking if there was something I could do. I got no response. So i posted in the threaded discussion asking if he got my email. I got no response. By this time the term has ended and he gave me a 69% 1% under passing. Since I still hadn't gotten a response from him I called my academic advising team and they gave me his office phone number to call. So I call and leave a voice-mail asking if there is anything I can do to raise my grade 1%, explaining that I had been trying to contact him through email and the threaded discussion. He responds through email saying the grades are final and that he had told everyone to contact him if they had any questions or concerns about their grade before the end of the term. So I email him back saying I tried to contact him but he never responded back to me. He emails me back saying to direct any further concerns with my grade to my academic advising team.
I mean it's fucking ridiculous I tried to contact him more than once about my grade and he never responded to me! So I submit a 'case' to the review board giving them all the information and supporting documentation showing that he never contacted me back and they VOTED IN FAVOR OF THE TEACHER!!!!! how can they accept and condone that kind of behavior from a teacher. How can they tell that teacher that it was OK for him to ignore me during that last week of class when I was reaching out for him asking for help.
After that class ended, I was reviewing some posts on the threaded discussion and found that another student had asked him the same question I did and he responded to that student but he wouldn't respond to me?? That is fucked up. I brought that information up with the review board as well and they STILL voted in favor of the teacher stating that "I could have found the information I needed elsewhere." WTF.... I obviously didn't find it, another student obviously didn't find it, the teacher answered the other student's question but refused to answer any of my multiple attempts? that's not right- in what world is that right? How can a company, and school, and a teacher even try to say that it is right?? I am so disgusted with their lack of ethics and lack of business operations, and lack of logic. and I'm so disgusted that I can't do anything about it! I've already gone to the managers and the teacher's boss- and they all vote in favor of the teacher.

To make matters worse, every student has like 10 or 12 different academic advisers, so when you call in you almost always talk to a different person, and every time you have to talk a different person you have to explain the entire string of events all over again. They keep "notes" of conversations in their computer system but it's extremely faulty. Sometimes they don't record the conversation (usually the times when it counts) or they don't record everything you talked about, or they record something that was wrong. And then of course the person you're talking to doesn't believe what you (the student) says because the advisers keep "records of every phone call".

This school is terrible- they fail at every attempt to operate at any set of standards. I have done nothing but fight with them every term about the same things.
I warn you, DO NOT ATTEND THIS SCHOOL. They can't do anything and don't do anything. Their HR, academic advising, and financial departments, basically every form of operations they have is screwy and they can't do anything. On the bright side, they don't do anything with a nice attitude (most of the time).