DeVry Institutes

DeVry University

Type	For-profit
Established	1931
Founder	Herman A. DeVry
Parent institution	Adtalem Global Education
President	James Bartholomew
Provost	Shantanu Bose
Students	19,287
Location	Downers Grove, Illinois, United States Coordinates: 41°51′30″N 87°57′15″W / 41.858301°N 87.954059°W / 41.858301; -87.954059
Campus	Multiple: 55+ United States, Canada, Brazil
Website	www.devry.edu

DeVry University (/dəˈvraɪ/) is a for-profit college based in the United States. The school was founded in 1931 by Herman A. DeVry as DeForest Training School and officially became DeVry University in 2002. As of September 2017,^[update] DeVry had a total enrollment of 19,287, falling at 20% year over year.

DeVry University has been involved in numerous investigations, lawsuits, and settlements, mostly over inflated claims about the employment rates and salaries of its graduates, but also over criticized education quality and loan practices.

The university is, like many other for-profit education institutions, a division of Adtalem Global Education, formerly known as DeVry Education Group (CEO Lisa Wardell). Since February 2002,^[update] DeVry University has been regionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. In December 2017, Adtalem announced that it would be selling DeVry University to Cogswell Education (a division of Palm Ventures); the details of the deal remain^[update] unclear.

DeVry was founded in 1931 as the DeForest Training School in Chicago, Illinois. School founder Herman A. DeVry, who had previously invented a motion picture projector and produced educational and training films, named the school after his friend Lee de Forest. De Forest Training School originally taught projector and radio repair, but later expanded to include other electronic equipment such as televisions. The school was renamed DeVry Technical Institute in 1953 and gained accreditation to confer associate degrees in electronics in 1957.