DeVry grads - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: eugenenine
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2017, 01:15:51 am
content: A while back I saw a couple threads about ITT and profit colleges in general and wondered what the opinion is of DeVry?I graduated in 1995.

author: spudboy488
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2017, 12:48:33 pm
content: I graduated in '83 with their BSEET. What I saw initially was that some companies wouldn't look at a "T" degree for any kind of engineering position. When I was hired at a major (at the time) communications company, I was a bench tech. Over time, I moved up to a lab tech position, then finally to an actual engineer position. Others that I graduated with went to smaller companies and were hired as engineers so it depends on what you want to do. I wanted to work for the company that hired me so I just did what I had to do to get to where I wanted. If I went to a different school, I might have gotten to my goal quicker but it was a decision I made in high school based on accessibility and cost.

author: george graves
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2017, 01:36:51 pm
content: ITT is a huge red flag for most HR people. But with that said HR people suck. If you can get past the HR people and show some skill, you'll be ok.

author: rrinker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2017, 02:40:01 pm
content: After 22 years your work history probably counts more than where you got your degree.I'm sort of torn. I already knew which university I wanted to go to before it was time to start applying. I knew I wanted to be an EE before I started high school. I only applied to that one university. But a DeVry rep came by and put on a real hard sell. It would be cheaper, and there was a lot more hands-on practical work - more technician than engineer. After talking it over with my Uncle, it took him calling to get them to stop contacting me. I was accepted by the university I wanted to go to, graduated - and didn't do an actual EE job ever. I could have saved a lot of money and POSSIBLY achieved the same thing although I am somewhat certain that a degree from a top university helped open some doors.

author: eugenenine
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2017, 04:10:14 pm
content: Quote from: rrinker on March 08, 2017, 02:40:01 pmLong story short, I ended up in an IT career so electronics is done at a hobby level. Most of the IT jobs required a degree but many didn't specify what it had to be in.Now I'm looking ahead a bit for my own kids I see my son will most likely not fit a traditional university.I graduated form the Columbus OH location, wondered if there were any others that I went to school with on the forums.

author: rrinker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2017, 09:06:15 pm
content: I almost instantly shifted to IT as well. I've gotten back into hobby electronic in a much more serious way as of recent, and I do think what might have been, but on the other hand, my best friend is a top notch RF/microwave engineer and been unemployed for far too long. No one's hiring in that field and the last place he applied, he even said he would work for far less than his previous salary, just to have a job, but instead they gave the job to an H1B applicant. I have never been unemployeed, not even for a day, so maybe it's better I wasn't an actual engineer.My oldest, post-HS education just wasn't for him. He tried a few courses ar community college, then tried an IT program, but gave up on both. More recently he did an online thing for web design (which I tried to talk him out of, way too much money spent for possible return, not to mention it's easy enough to learn the tools yourself. The creative side, either you have it or you don't). So far he's done nothing with that, but he will soon, the retail store where he is a department manager is closing.My youngest was a perpetual goof off in school, until he finally found his place the last two years of high school. At his graduation I honestly could not believe his teachers were talking about the same kid as each one praised him for his academics, especially math and science, and for his help in mentoring younger students, and for his photography work for the school paper. I seriously checked to see if there were perhaps by coincidence two kids with the same name - nope, the same kid who was banned from the property of the area vo-tech (and nearly arrested) really was now someone to be used as a positive example of what you can do when you put your mind to something, winning both the math and science awards plus all this praise from the teachers. He's still a bit of a wild child, but he's holding down a steady job with a plan to eventually go to college and study biology.

author: Benta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2017, 10:20:03 pm
content: Well, ITT's folded, and DeFry is busy paying back money to students they've cheated.Not really a recommendation in my eyes.QuoteThat's a start. But did you ask your son whathewants? Perhaps he's not the academical type. In your place, I'd take that conversation before making plans on his behalf. Think about it.

author: eugenenine
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2017, 10:39:19 pm
content: Not picking for him but hes interested in electornics. I wasn't going to go to college myself at the advice of the school but my vocational electronics teacher suggested I at least try devry.