Public | |
Traded as | : ATGE S&P 400 Component |
Industry | Education |
Founded | 1973 |
Headquarters | Downers Grove, Illinois, United States |
Key people
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Lisa Wardell (President and CEO) |
Revenue | $1.844 billion (2016) |
−$0.012 billion (2016) | |
−$0.003 billion (2016) | |
Total assets | $2.097 billion (2016) |
Total equity | $1.583 billion (2016) |
Number of employees
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11,770 (2016) |
Website | www.adtalem.com |
Adtalem Global Education Inc., formerly DeVry Education Group, is a United States corporation based in Downers Grove, Illinois, that operates several for-profit higher education institutions, including Advanced Academics, Becker Professional Education, Carrington College, Chamberlain College of Nursing, DeVry Brasil, DeVry University, EduPristine, American University of the Caribbean, and Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine.
Adtalem Global Education was a successor to two separate entities: DeVry Institutes and the Keller-Taylor Corporation (d/b/a Keller Graduate School of Management). DeVry Technical Institute was acquired by the Bell & Howell company in 1966, and became part of its Education Group division. The school was renamed to DeVry Institute of Technology in 1968. In 1984, the education division was renamed DeVry, Inc. ("Old DeVry"), and became publicly traded on the .
The Keller-Taylor Corporation was formed in 1973 by Dennis Keller and Ronald Taylor. Keller-Taylor was the holding company of CBA Institute in Chicago, which later became Keller Graduate School of Management. In 1987 Keller-Taylor acquired the DeVry Institutes from Bell & Howell and merged with Keller Graduate School of Management. The holding company's name changed to DeVry, Inc.
In 1991, DeVry became the first publicly traded education provider with an initial public offering on the NASDAQ stock exchange. In 1995, DeVry moved to the (NYSE) and began trading under the symbol DV (: DV). In 2017, the company changed its ticker symbol to ATGE (: ATGE).