DeVry University Online: Cost and Outcomes (2026)
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- DeVry is a for-profit, HLC-accredited university filed under one Illinois ID
- DeVry charges $514 a credit hour for undergraduate programs
- DeVry’s $35,665 net price counts living costs on top of tuition
- 28% of DeVry’s 2017-18 starters earned an award within eight years
- Health administration certificates lead DeVry’s awards
- DeVry agreed to a $100 million FTC settlement over job-placement ads in 2016
- Who DeVry fits, and the watch-outs
- Check your own aid before you apply to DeVry
DeVry University’s average net price was $35,665 for 2024-25, and 28% of students who started in 2017-18 earned an award within eight years, according to College Scorecard’s October 15, 2026 release. Classes start every 8 weeks at $514 per undergraduate credit hour, and financial aid is disbursed to eligible students each session.
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DeVry is a for-profit, HLC-accredited university filed under one Illinois ID
DeVry University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), which continued its accreditation in February 2025 after accepting a team report. Its Keller Graduate School of Management is part of that accreditation.
| Fact | DeVry |
|---|---|
| Control | Private for-profit |
| Ownership | Transferred by Adtalem (now Covista) to Cogswell Education, LLC on December 11, 2018 |
| Accreditor | Higher Learning Commission (HLC) |
| Federal school ID (UNITID) | 482477, filed as DeVry University-Illinois |
| Undergraduates studying only online (fall 2024) | 97% |
| Degree-seeking undergraduates (fall 2024) | 27,825 |
| Graduate students (fall 2024) | 3,250 |
| Undergraduates studying part-time (fall 2024) | 56% |
| Undergraduates 25 or older (fall 2023) | 86% |
| Admission rate (fall 2024) | 98% |
Scorecard and College Navigator file federal ID 482477 as DeVry University-Illinois, at its Lisle address. That ID carries DeVry’s national online enrollment: in fall 2024, 97% of its undergraduates took only online courses, and 93% of first-time undergraduates came from outside Illinois.
So every DeVry Scorecard and Navigator figure on this page covers that one ID, online students included. To run the same accreditation check on any school, use the five checks for whether an online school is legit.
DeVry charges $514 a credit hour for undergraduate programs
DeVry’s undergraduate tuition table, dated September 14, 2026, sets $514 per credit hour for its bachelor’s, associate and certificate programs. Tuition is the same online or on campus. Classes start every 8 weeks, and a full year is six sessions, or three semesters.
| BS in Business Administration, 124 credit hours | Cost |
|---|---|
| Tuition: 124 x $514 | $63,736 |
| Fees | $5,680 |
| Textbook and equipment expense (DeVry’s average estimate) | $1,600 |
| Application fee | $30 |
| Total program cost, as DeVry lists it | $71,046 |
DeVry’s fees are $90 per course for course resources, a one-time $400 learning management system (LMS) access fee and a $60 student services charge each session. DeVry’s table sets the same $514 rate for its other bachelor’s, associate and certificate programs.
DeVry says up to 90 credit hours may transfer, depending on your program. New graduate students pay $776 per credit hour in DeVry’s traditional graduate degree and certificate programs, and active duty military and their spouses pay $250 per undergraduate credit.
DeVry’s $35,665 net price counts living costs on top of tuition
Scorecard lists $15,992 in tuition and fees for 2025-26, the same for students in every state. Net price is different: it is the full cost of attendance, housing and living costs included, minus grants and scholarships.
DeVry’s tuition page (checked October 25, 2026) estimates a full-time undergraduate year at $43,672. That is $15,532 in tuition and fees, $700 for books and supplies, $18,164 in living expenses, $3,080 for transportation and $6,196 in miscellaneous living expenses.
| Family income | Average net price, 2024-25 |
|---|---|
| $0 to $30,000 | $35,373 |
| $30,001 to $48,000 | $36,182 |
| $48,001 to $75,000 | $35,519 |
| $75,001 to $110,000 | $37,804 |
| $110,001 and up | Not published |
The average covers 782 full-time, first-time undergraduates who got federal aid in 2024-25, while 56% of DeVry undergraduates studied part-time in fall 2024. It barely moves with income, from $35,373 in the lowest band to $37,804 at $75,001 to $110,000.
75% of DeVry undergraduates had a Pell Grant in 2024-25, and for 2026-27 Pell pays up to $7,395 a year to eligible undergraduates. 81% took a federal loan in 2024-25. Your own aid depends on your income, family size and state, and the aid check estimates it from your answers.
28% of DeVry’s 2017-18 starters earned an award within eight years
| Measure | DeVry | Who and when |
|---|---|---|
| Earned an award within 8 years | 28% | All students who started in 2017-18 |
| Graduated within 150% of normal time | 40% | First-time, full-time students, fall 2019 cohort |
| Median earnings 6 years after starting | $46,622 | Aided students who entered in 2015-16 and 2016-17 |
| Median earnings 10 years after starting | $51,716 | Aided students who entered in 2011-12 and 2012-13 |
| Graduates’ median earnings 4 years after finishing | $63,172 | Graduates who finished in 2017-18 and 2018-19 |
| Graduates’ median federal loan debt | $17,038 | Graduates who entered repayment in fiscal 2024 and 2025 |
| Undergraduates with a Pell Grant | 75% | 2024-25 |
| Undergraduates with a federal loan | 81% | 2024-25 |
72% of students who started in 2017-18 had no DeVry award eight years later. The 40% rate (graduated within 150% of normal time, fall 2019 cohort) counts a narrower group: students who started full-time with no prior college.
These are school-wide medians. Your payoff depends on the program, the job you target and what you pay.
Health administration certificates lead DeVry’s awards
These are DeVry’s largest fields by awards in 2023-24, from Scorecard’s field-of-study file. Scorecard shows every credential in each of them as fully online.
| Field and credential | Awards, 2023-24 | Median earnings, 4 yrs after | Median federal debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health and Medical Administrative Services (certificate) | 4,058 | $40,853 | $13,579 |
| Computer and Information Sciences, General (certificate) | 2,358 | Not published | $16,097 |
| Computer and Information Sciences, General (associate) | 1,055 | Not published | $25,189 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations (bachelor's) | 907 | $68,231 | $35,378 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations (master's) | 765 | $87,024 | $45,795 |
| Business/Commerce, General (certificate) | 676 | Not published | $14,250 |
| Health and Medical Administrative Services (associate) | 498 | $45,431 | $27,299 |
| Business/Commerce, General (associate) | 496 | $62,848 | $25,161 |
Field names are the federal program categories Scorecard uses, not DeVry’s program titles. Earnings are medians for graduates who finished in 2017-18 and 2018-19, measured in 2022 and 2023 in 2024 dollars. Debt is the median federal loan balance of graduates who finished in 2022-23 and 2023-24, a different group.
Certificates fill three of the top six rows. The business master’s has the highest median debt in the list, $45,795. For computing degrees, compare online technology programs at other schools on the same Scorecard measures.
DeVry agreed to a $100 million FTC settlement over job-placement ads in 2016
In December 2016, DeVry University and its parent company agreed to a $100 million settlement of a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) lawsuit filed that January in federal court in the Central District of California. The defendants were DeVry Education Group Inc., DeVry University, Inc. and DeVry/New York Inc.
The FTC charged that DeVry’s ads claimed 90 percent of graduates actively seeking employment landed jobs in their field within six months of graduation. It also charged that DeVry claimed its bachelor’s graduates had 15 percent higher incomes one year after graduation than bachelor’s graduates of all other colleges or universities.
The order states: “Defendants neither admit nor deny any of the allegations in the Complaint, except as specifically stated in this Order.”
The settlement required DeVry to pay $49.4 million in cash for qualifying students and provide $50.6 million in debt relief, including $30.35 million in private loans it issued to undergraduates from September 2008 to September 2015.
The FTC says the order prohibits DeVry “from misrepresenting the likelihood that graduates will get a job as a result of their degree” and from “misrepresenting the compensation or compensation ranges that students or graduates have received or can be expected to receive.”
The FTC’s refunds page (May 2024) says it first mailed checks in July 2017 and has returned more than $49 million to former DeVry students.
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The FTC sues DeVry
FTC v. DeVry Education Group Inc. et al., Central District of California, over job-placement and income ads.
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The $100 million settlement is filed
$49.4 million in cash for qualifying students and $50.6 million in debt relief.
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Adtalem completes the transfer of DeVry
Cogswell Education, LLC takes full ownership.
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ED approves about 3,800 borrower defense claims
The claims came from DeVry and four other schools, nearly $131 million in discharges. ED finds that “DeVry made substantial misrepresentations about graduates’ job placement rates.”
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ED announces a collection proceeding
ED says it formally initiated a proceeding against DeVry for previously approved claims.
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The Secretary sends the proceeding back to an administrative law judge
The proceeding covers discharges for 649 borrowers. DeVry had sued in the Northern District of Illinois (No. 1:22-cv-05549) to block it. Our sources show no later outcome of either case.
The FTC said in February 2022 that ED would forgive $71.7 million in federal loans for “students deceived by the for-profit university.”
ED’s 2022 summary of its evidence found that DeVry counted “old jobs” held by its mid-career students and “improperly deemed graduates as inactive in their job search and thus excluded them.” It says: “When accounting for these two manipulations of the job placement rate, DeVry’s rate drops from ninety percent to less than fifty-eight percent.”
DeVry disputes ED’s findings. Its January 23, 2025 statement says the claims “relate to advertising from over a decade ago under prior ownership” and that “any allegation that DeVry misled students at any time is unsubstantiated and wrong.”
DeVry says it “has challenged the legality of the Department’s actions” through “an action pending in Federal Court.” ED’s May 2024 order places that lawsuit in federal court in the Northern District of Illinois, case No. 1:22-cv-05549.
Who DeVry fits, and the watch-outs
It fits if
- You bring credits. DeVry says up to 90 credit hours may transfer, depending on your program, and 11,233 of the 28,046 undergraduates College Navigator counted in fall 2024 were transfer-in students.
- You are a working adult studying online. 86% of undergraduates were 25 or older in fall 2023; in fall 2024, 56% studied part-time and 97% took only online courses.
- You want business, health administration or computing. Those fields fill DeVry’s largest award counts in 2023-24.
Watch-outs
- Most 2017-18 starters had no DeVry award after eight years. That was 72% of them.
- The net price counts living costs. The 2024-25 average was $35,665, against $15,992 in tuition and fees for 2025-26.
- Borrowing is common. 81% of undergraduates took a federal loan in 2024-25, and business bachelor’s graduates who finished in 2022-23 and 2023-24 owe a median $35,378.
- The advertising record. The FTC case and ED’s 2022 findings were about job-placement claims, so check any job or pay figure a recruiter gives you against Scorecard.
Check your own aid before you apply to DeVry
DeVry’s averages describe what other students paid. The aid check applies the federal aid rules for the year you start (2026-27 or 2027-28) to your income and family, takes about two minutes and shows the result before any email or school contact. DeVry’s Student Finance office sets the actual offer.
To compare on the same measures, see Colorado Technical University (26% of 2017-18 starters earned an award within eight years; graduates who entered repayment in fiscal 2024 and 2025 owe a median $29,971) or Strayer University (15% and $39,188 on the same measures, for its Global Region ID), from College Scorecard’s October 2026 data.
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Sources
Every figure in this guide comes from one of these pages. How we check sources
- U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard: DeVry University-Illinois (UNITID 482477)
- College Scorecard data files, October 15, 2026 release
- College Scorecard data dictionary: field definitions and cohort years
- NCES College Navigator: DeVry University-Illinois (enrollment, distance education and residence, fall 2024; age, fall 2023)
- DeVry University: Undergraduate Tuition, Fees and Expenses, September 14, 2026
- DeVry University: College tuition and expenses (per-credit rates, cost of attendance)
- DeVry University: Financial aid (Student Finance Office)
- DeVry University: How to transfer colleges (transfer credit limit)
- DeVry University: Accreditation and recognition
- Higher Learning Commission: February 2025 actions (DeVry University, Lisle, IL)
- Adtalem Global Education (now Covista): Completes divestitures of DeVry University and Carrington College (December 11, 2018)
- Covista: Adtalem Global Education becomes Covista (February 5, 2026)
- Federal Trade Commission: DeVry University agrees to $100 million settlement with FTC (December 15, 2016)
- Federal Trade Commission: FTC v. DeVry Education Group Inc., case page (Matter 132 3278)
- Federal Trade Commission: Stipulation as to entry of order for permanent injunction and monetary judgment, FTC v. DeVry
- Federal Trade Commission: DeVry refunds (May 2024)
- Federal Trade Commission: FTC enforcement action leads U.S. Dept. of Education to forgive $71.7 million in loans for students deceived by DeVry University (February 16, 2022)
- StudentAid.gov: Borrower defense updates (DeVry approvals, February 16, 2022; collection proceeding, August 16, 2022)
- StudentAid.gov: DeVry University borrower defense executive summary (2022)
- U.S. Department of Education: In re DeVry University, Dkt. No. 22-54-BD, Order of Remand (May 1, 2024)
- DeVry University: Statement on borrower defense to repayment loan discharges (January 23, 2025)
- Federal Student Aid, 2026-27 Federal Pell Grant maximum and minimum award amounts
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