DeVry University
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What is the best part of working at the company?Meeting people of all backgrounds and ages to help plan a future with a degree behind them.What is the most stressful part about working at the company?Second guesser . Those who are on the fence regarding going back to school and trying to help them see the sacrifice is worth it.What is the work environment and culture like at the company?Everyone has the same helpful energyWhat is a typical day like for you at the company?Calling leads and setting up appointments and interviewing candidates for various programs offered
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Adjunct/Visiting Professor Online

I like the flexibility of the online environment and there is a lot of support from the faculty advisors. The only complaint is scheduling. You are never clear on if you will be assigned a class or not.

Pros

Flexible

Cons

Unknown schduling
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DeVry University insights

Based on 230 survey responses
What people like
  • Feeling of personal appreciation
  • Supportive environment
  • Time and location flexibility

Student surveys used against Faculty

DeVry used to be a good place to work. Today, Online Faculty are assigned courses based upon the results of end-of-course surveys. Students expect A's for minimal work and take it out on the instructor through the survey if they don't receive a good grade. Dean's and department chairs don't care about anything except high student satisfaction scores. This sets up a model in which instructors that challenge students to perform well are given fewer classes than instructors that give students all good grades regardless of the effort. Shame on the university.I have over 30 years of industry experience and over 17 years of teaching computer science at the collegiate level and am leaving DeVry soon. I expect students to at least give a marginal effort and quite often that is too high an expectation.

Pros

None

Cons

Deans and department chairs punish faculty for low survey results.
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Official response from DeVry University

July 16, 2021
Thank you for taking the time to write this review. We take your feedback seriously and encourage you to reach out to us and share more about your experience. Please email us at Talent_Acquisition@devry.edu.

Its not what it seems

It starts off good but suddenly changed. Its a stressful work environment, and it's nothing but a sales job, numbers is all they care about. Everything changed when COVID hit and we started working from home. Behaviors became aggressive. They put lots of pressure on you to meet goals. Huge turnover rate!! Replacing you is a big thing with this company so keep that in mind.
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Official response from DeVry University

July 5, 2021
At DeVry University our goal is to ensure our colleagues are happy, thus we take your feedback very seriously. We’d like to learn more about your experience. Please reach out to us by emailing us at Talent_Acquisition@devry.edu.

Good place to work

Good place to work if you don’t mind working in a call center environment. Management was extremely helpful and nice and very team oriented. Other managers did not seem to care too much, but my manager was super nice.

Pros

Some free lunches, decent PTO but it went on seniority for the days you can request, management is good

Cons

Call center environment, lots of gossip
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Productive and rewarding job.

This job is rewarding and fun, while it can be stressful at times. They have a super in depth four week training program where you are taught the basics. Management and coworkers also guide and give you help along the way. Great team environment and pay.
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Official response from DeVry University

June 29, 2021
Thank you for taking the time to leave this review! We appreciate the feedback and are happy that you are enjoying your experience with DeVry University.

Nice Job, Horrible management.

Being a student at the time of working there was fun. Everybody has to go through you to get their books each semester. Workplace culture was very unpleasant. My Professors always asking me how I can work for such an evil person? The hardest part was finding the school itself (DeVry) was just in it for its Shareholders and lying to make profits. The only fact I learned was that education is the governments greatest Con.

Pros

Nothing Free

Cons

Had two 10 min. breaks taken down to one 15 min. break.
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Fun Place to Work with Great co-workers

Enjoyed working on my team. Great senior leadership. At times the work could get overwhelming with the tight deadlines. Pay and benefits were great.
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Official response from DeVry University

June 23, 2021
Thank you for taking the time to leave this review. We are happy you enjoyed your time with DeVry University!

Great place to work.

Great place to work. Leadership is very supportive. Great pay and benefits. Long training but the company does invest in you. Lots of support from coworkers.

Pros

Good pay and benefits
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Micromanager on enrollment side

On the enrollment side, management tends to be micro managers. Real bad manager for me there—worst I’ve ever bn around. Loved the job itself and believe in the education level at DeVry. Not for the average student though, it’s upper level.

Pros

Great education level, education benefits

Cons

Lots
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Official response from DeVry University

July 5, 2021
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Teaching students

I really enjoy teaching students but classes go to full time faculty and hardly anything goes to adjunct. A bit unfair but it's okay because those are the guidelines.

Pros

Pay and students

Cons

Get a class every so often
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Great product, place, people!

I worked for DeVry University Ft.Washington, PA campus. I was in the field. I believed in The program of educating students for high-demand career fields. It helps when you are passionate about what you get to do every day! Had some EXCELLENT managers (one not so much).

Pros

Independence, training, support

Cons

One manager was not great-that could be anywhere
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Official response from DeVry University

May 20, 2021
We are happy you enjoyed working at DeVry University and appreciate your feedback. Thank you so much for taking the time to write this review!

Don't Even Waste Your Time

This was the worst job that I ever had in my life. If you are looking to get into higher ed, DO NOT work at Devry. It is a glorified call center. You are calling and bugging the same people over and over again. You will feel worse than a used car salesman. The people who run this "school" don't care about the students. They just want to sign them up for classes.The management was not good at all. Everyone tells you something different. I worked there for 7 months and had 4 different managers. Devry lacked a lot of structure. I have never worked for such a bad company in my life.

Pros

The pay

Cons

Everything ELSE
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Official response from DeVry University

May 20, 2021
Our goal is to ensure our colleagues are happy, thus we take your feedback very seriously. We’d like to learn from your experience. Please reach out to us by emailing us at Talent_Acquisition@devry.edu.

Mission driven organization

DeVry University had a positive, collaborative culture. Staff work together to help students achieve success. Everyone's goals are aligned to the care of the student.

Pros

Positive Culture, dynamic staff, great benefits and pay

Cons

You need to be able to move fast and work hard
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Have a plan B if work here.

It's the training that needs work. Nobody has time to help you because you have to be on call before 1 min. I like to earn my money and it's unfortunate that the job was basically done for me since the training wasn't well put together. Nobody has time to teach you. You should have patience to teach. You can tell who are the favorites. It didn't seem genuine working there. Very micromanage. I felt I wasn't moving up in the company. I stayed just at my position. I've seen 2 other new people move up higher than me and they were still asking me questions. Getting 12 registered students was always the goal and I did it twice for being there for 1 year and half. I wish I would've stayed, but I knew I wasn't feeling fulfilled anymore as a role. I was noticing people were getting let go if you ended up only having 2 reg students and you would get letter concern and then get on PIP (performance improvement plan). Then after that, you would get let go. I felt they had control of your numbers in your dial. They would pick those who needed to go. I just couldn't wait to be let go like that. I couldn't risk my finance. This company pays well to start, but really need to think through how to keep their real good advisors and not push them away. I didn't feel I earned my money right when others do the job for me. I kept telling them how much I didn't want them to think I was lazy and I wanted to earn my way. Felt it was just being ignored. I still have old coworkers I still speak to and its unfortunate I won't be able to see them since we worked remote. Met some great people.

Pros

Pay is decent

Cons

Training needs work, so you are on your own later. Asking questiones is a must
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Official response from DeVry University

May 20, 2021
Thank you for leaving us a review and letting us know how we can do better. We take your feedback very seriously and would like to learn from your experience. Please reach out to us at Talent_Acquisition@devry.edu with any additional information you can share.

Too Much Emphasis on Getting New Students in the Door

I wasn't even in admissions, but with the pressure coming to our department from admissions and the huge amount of resources in that department, it was easy to see that getting new students in the door was a bigger priority than taking care of them once they were there. I was happy with the pay and promotions came regularly, lots of people were just phoning it in so it was easy to stand out. Communication was very siloed and mostly via email, so tensions flared easily with people in other departments because it wasn't easy to meet someone face to face to smooth things over and come to an understanding. Very production focused, daily counts of how many accounts each of us worked were sent out to my team. At my next workplace they had to coax me out and assure me that it was OK to spend a little time talking to my officemates about what we did over the weekend.

Pros

Pay, ability to be promoted, free tuition

Cons

Communication between departments, overall sinking feeling that we weren't do the best for most of our students
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Very slow but chill place

Not much foot traffic to the office. Very slow and don’t learn alot from the position. Good people to work with but just too much expectations for little training.
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Deans don't really care about faculty.

Too many people only care about themselves. Leadership positions would go out of their way to take credit for you accomplishments while not recognizing their subordinates.

Pros

University day - free breakfast and lunch.

Cons

Lots of expectations and little rewards.
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Official response from DeVry University

May 20, 2021
Thank you for your the time to leave a review. We appreciate any additional feedback on how we can improve by emailing us at Talent_Acquisition@devry.edu.

Good starter job.

Most enjoyment is lunch and typical day at work you say hi to a few people and work. You will usually have a little time to reset after lunch and then you can fully focus on your work.

Pros

Lunch

Cons

N/a
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Company Culture Was Great

Company culture was great. Best part of working here would be coworkers and management. Everyone was super supportive and helpful. Overall a very fun and rewarding place to work!
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Official response from DeVry University

April 14, 2021
We are happy you enjoyed working at DeVry University and appreciate your feedback on our Culture of Care. Thank you so much for taking the time to write this review!

great place to work

large complex lots of opportunity sometimes internal politics I felt supported lots of growth potential and chance for both online an face to face teaching and learning

Pros

flexible strong managers large system good resources
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Official response from DeVry University

March 29, 2021
Thank you so much for taking the time to write this review! We are happy you enjoyed your time with us at DeVry University.

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Based on 1,462 reviews

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3.7 out of 5 stars for Work/Life Balance
3.5 out of 5 stars for Compensation/Benefits
3.0 out of 5 stars for Job Security/Advancement
3.4 out of 5 stars for Management
3.6 out of 5 stars for Culture

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