About DeVry University

To further develop our unique and important role in the education space, DeVry University is acquired by Cogswell Education, LLC.

The University’s accreditation is reaffirmed by the Higher Learning Commission¹, signaling that DeVry meets key standards in quality, student support, transfer credits and more.

DeVry University becomes an official education provider of Team USA.

Keller Center for Corporate Learning, now known as DeVryWorks, is created as a business unit that provides talent development, skills-gap training and talent acquisition to employee partners.

DeVry Institute of Technology and Keller Graduate School of Management merge to become DeVry University. The university’s accreditation is reaffirmed by The Higher Learning Commission.

Business Administration becomes DeVry’s first bachelor’s degree program offered online.

DeVry begins offering online programs.

Keller acquires DeVry from Bell and Howell, joining the two schools to form the parent organization of DeVry Inc., now known as Adtalem Global Education.

DeVry earns regional accreditation from North Central Association, known today as The Higher Learning Commission.

Degree programs are expanded to Accounting, Business Administration and Network and Communications Management.

Computer Science for Business, now called Computer Information Systems, becomes DeVry’s second bachelor’s level program.

Keller earns accreditation from North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

The Keller Graduate School of Management is founded by Dennis Keller and Ronald Taylor, former DeVry teachers.

The first bachelor’s degree program is offered in electronics engineering technology.

DeVry Technical Institute is renamed DeVry Institute of Technology.

DeVry Technical Institute is acquired by Bell and Howell.

DeVry begins offering its first associate degree program, the Associate in Electronics Engineering Technology.

DeVry’s associate degree program in Electronics Engineering Technology is accredited by the Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (TAC of ABET).

DeForest Training, Inc. becomes DeVry Technical Institute.

DeVry receives the Army-Navy “E” award for its production of motion picture sound equipment.

During WWII, DeForest’s Training school is selected by the United States to educate Army Air Corps instructors on electronic devices and becomes one of the first schools to be approved under the G.I. Bill.

Dr. Herman DeVry and Dr. Lee DeForest, inventor of the vacuum tube, open DeForest’s Training, Inc., a DeVry School, in Chicago to prepare students for technical careers in electronics, motion pictures, radio and later, television.

Dr. DeVry established the DeVry Summer School of Visual Instruction. Educators came to the school to learn about motion pictures and how the technology could be adapted to learning.

Dr. DeVry’s portable projector shows the first in-flight movie.

Dr. DeVry founded DeVry Corporation, which manufactured 35mm and 16mm motion picture projection equipment. The projectors become standard technology in U.S. schools nationwide.

Dr. Herman DeVry invents the “Theater in a Suitcase,” a 35mm portable silent motion picture projector. This Model E projector launches his career as an entrepreneur in the motion picture business and ultimately shifts the education technology paradigm.