DeVry University has a whole set of "Would You Like Fries with That" degrees. Whether you love art or computers DeVry can help you find your way to the McDonald's or Burger King of your dreams. That $60,000 in debt you incur will only last until the day you die. Who needs to buy a house or retire anyways? You're not Donald Trump you know.
Advice I give Youngsters Spend 1000$ - get ya A+ Network + Security+ that will get ya something entry level but still more money than McD's It will help you pay for whatever school you want to go to and live better than the Avg Student QUESTION: After you DeVry degree .. . how much do you expect to make an hour and/or year? Rocket River BTW - like the Cool Story Bro Gif!
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If you want to get your Master's degree, I think that is a great idea. That will make you more marketable. It is also very expensive. You need to: 1. Identify the schools with good Master's programs in your chosen field and talk to them to see if they consider students for admission that obtained their bachelor's from DeVry, and 2. Figure out how much tuition debt you can withstand. If DeVry costs $60k for your bachelor's degree (plus any accrued interest on those loans) and you add $25-30k for a Master's, you are looking at a student loan payment of $1,000 a month or more. Please do some real research on this BEFORE you enroll at DeVry. I do not want you to make a mistake based on promotional materials from DeVry. They do NOT have your best interest at heart.
It's kind of funny that everyone here is making fun of Devry, and then suggesting alternatives like JuCo or community college. These all bear the same weight with perspective employers. In all honesty, it doesn't even matter if you go to UH, A&M or UT. If it isn't Ivy League, no one really cares where you got your undergraduate degree. Nowadays to get proper employment, one needs some sort of Masters or professional degree. Starting out at Devry, and working one self up to Masters is a step in the right direction. Good on you, GlenRice.
So I helped out in recruiting at where I worked and I would say that's not true in my limited experience. We have a list of schools we were willing to do campus recruiting at, and UT and A&M are on the list while most other state schools are not. Now, after working a few years, I would agree that your undergrad matters less unless applying for grad school, but that's a whole another argument all together. As far as community college, the argument is save money your first year by enrolling there, get a good transcript then transfer to a state college (UT, A&M, UH, Tech, and Etc.). That to me is a better way of doing things.
I think what people are getting at is the price. If I'm getting this right, DeVry isn't that much better than a certificate at a JuCo or CC, and costs much less. Granted JuCo or CC would probably grant a prospective employee's resume an express lane to the trash bin.
so everyone that is going to school needs to go for a masters? this is why bachelor's degrees are almost meaningless.
That's the point though. You don't spend 60k on a JuCo or CC. After 2 years there, you can transfer some of those credits to a university. With public state tuition, you spend at most 30k for those 4-5 years and still look better to a prospective employer or graduate school. It's GlenRice's (fake?) decision, but that type of money is gonna cut down on his steroids and whitening cream.
That is simply false. Go to any significant company and see how many employees went to DeVry. Then compare that to the number of people that went to UH, A&M or UT. I think the facts will not support your assertion.
From a teaching perspective, the quality of student at DeVry is also a decent amount lower than your average CC. Because of that, among other things, the giant mill of adjunct instructors that can choose CC or DeVry and similar will most often choose a CC, thus ensuring that the crappier ones end up at DeVry. Further, if you want a masters good luck getting into a non-DeVry program with that "degree". Lower quality peers + lower quality instructors + higher tuition + for profit motivations = better than community college or UH, etc.? Say no go.
Most of us are suggesting the guy/gal/thing go to a CC for a year and then transfer to a university like UT, UH, U Whatever, if getting in was a problem.
ClutchFans has come to the rescue again. Let me explain, i've been trying to figure out whether to go to Devry or just finish my basics at san jac then transfer to uhcl, but after reading this thread and all the vets comments, i'm simply going to go with latter. Thank You guys
That's an excellent decision and a very good school. A relative of mine retired not too terribly long ago from UH-Clear Lake. He was the Dean of one of the colleges there. (I just figured out that you aren't GR!)
