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Our Industry Partners Help Enhance Your Education

At DeVry University, we continuously develop and update our undergrad and graduate degree programs with input from industry leaders. These curriculum partners help you gain skills and access to technology from today’s top employers. As a result of these educational partnerships, our students can:

- Receive training to become proficient in the use of Adobe applications
- Apply for several $1,500 scholarships each year from Hewlett-Packard
- Purchase the latest version of the Microsoft Office suite of applications at a significantly reduced price

Our Education Partners and Affiliations

Cisco

The worldwide leader in networking, Cisco partners with DeVry to help develop programs that can provide students the skills they need to excel. Students develop the foundational Information and Communications Technology (ICT) skills needed to design, build and manage networks, along with career skills such as problem solving, collaboration and critical thinking. Students complete hands-on learning activities and network simulations to develop practical skills that can help them fill a growing need for networking professionals around the world^.1

Adobe

Our students learn to proficiently use Adobe Creative Cloud and other Adobe applications. From programs as diverse as Multimedia Design and Development and Computer Information Systems, to specializations like Technical Communication and Business Information Systems, students use Adobe products. These can include Flash Professional, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and Premiere Pro. Students use them to apply design skills, hone presentation skills and engage in virtual collaboration. Through our partnership with Adobe, students can acquire the necessary implementation skills for their chosen career fields^.1

Hewlett-Packard

We partner with Hewlett-Packard (HP) to provide College of Media Arts & Technology students and faculty with HP Desktop and Mobile Workstations that have the processing power and stability required for all educational tasks. In addition, HP generously provides scholarship funding available for our students through the DeVry Education Group Scholarship Fund. As a result, we award Hewlett-Packard scholarships to qualifying DeVry students^.1

Microsoft

We partner with Microsoft to make the current version of Microsoft Office, as well as a number of other applications, available to our students at a greatly reduced price. In addition, through our partnership with Microsoft, we create and deliver webinars to help students build their skills.

DeVry students also can take part in the Microsoft Imagine Cup, a global intramural competition and community, which inspires students to make a positive change in the world through the use of technology. To date, over 10,000 DeVry students have participated.¹

Becker Professional Education

We partner with Becker Professional Education, a leader in CPA Exam preparation for over 60 years, allowing you to integrate their CPA Exam Review materials into select graduate degree programs to aid in your test prep.

Professional Affiliations

The backing of prestigious professional organizations - whether through the continuous education of our instructors or the integration of exceptional criteria and methodology in our curriculum - is one more way we help you hone your professional edge.

When your instructors continuously sharpen their own skills and stay up-to-date on the latest practices and developments in their fields, you can be sure that you're truly learning from experienced professors. Here are some of the professional organizations in which our faculty and staff participate or have membership:

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Federation of Schools of Accountancy
Institute of Managerial Accounting
Project Management Institute
Academy of Management
American Management Association
American Marketing Association
American Society for Quality
United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship
American Hotel and Lodging Association
American College of Healthcare Executives
American Health Information Management Association
American Society of Training and Development
Society for Human Resource Management
American Society of Industrial Security
Association of Information Technology Professionals
Association for Business Communication
American Association of Cost Engineering International
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

¹Cisco, Adobe, Hewlett Packard and Microsoft are the property of their respective owners.