I was just finishing my 6th semester a DeVry, and getting ready to schedule for my 7th, when I was told one of the classes I needed would no longer be offered on campus because not enough students signed up for it, three I think. I talked to the dean of the degree I was pursing and he told me I could take the class on-line, and that online classes were easy to follow and even more well structured than their on-campus equivalents. I trusted what he said and went ahead and signed up for two online classes, one for data base programming and the other for signal processing. The first week of class when I logged I found a link to an online book I was supposed to read, and read the assigned chapters for that week. I then looked at the lecture page, and to my surprise is was no more than 250 words long. I tried emailing the professors of the respective classes to see if perhaps I was missing something or doing something wrong, but it wasn't until 2 weeks later that one emailed me back, and the other never did. After a week of not receiving a reply from either of the professors I decided to drop the class(makes it as if I never signed up for it) so that I would not be charged for it, at which point I was told I was too late, and that the class could only be dropped in the first week. In short, DeVry Online classes are a complete ripoff. The professors in the on-campus are always well prepared and cover the material with a through lecture totaling 2-3 hours a week, but the lectures for online-classes are basically non-existent. The only learning materials I was given was a book to read and whatever comments my classmates made on the class forums. If I wanted to learn by reading a book, then I wouldn't pay $3500 to some university. I basically shelled out $3500 to have DeVry recommend two books for me to read. What a ripoff.

i've just cancelled my enrollment with devry after seeing this site and reading the horror everyone has gone through. knowing now that these people will stop at nothing to ruin the lives of innocent and trusting people, i am worried because they have my bank card information from when i paid the application fee of $50. i also signed a promissory note with sallie mae and provided a co-signer as well. this morning i went into my fafsa and took their school code off, hopefully the damage has not been done.

i hadn't even registered for classes yet and all the bogus crap had already started. i was given 2 different quotes on cost of tuition and when i questioned it i was given the runaround, admissions telling me there must have been a glitch in the system and to clarify with financial aid. when i did call fin. aid, they gave me yet a 3 third quote, this being the highest of all 3 quotes. right then and there, i made it clear that i don't intend to finish with the admissions process and i will not attend devry. she then told me to inform the admissions dept. of cancelling enrollment. i did and of course she didn't pick up so i left a voice message. when i signed the notice of cancellation and sent it back, i also sent an email with the same message, also that i cancelled before the 5 business days was up so i was entitled to a refund. i did that as a backup in case i needed something in writing. i was really surprised she emailed me back later that evening, and of course no apology on giving me the wrong info. on tuition, not even a word. she did mention that it will take 6 weeks for them to process my refund of the app. fee, so we'll see if i get it back. i just hope that this is the last of devry that i will have to deal with.