About DeVry University
DeVry University (formerly known as DeVry Education Group) is an American for-profit college. The school was founded in 1931 as DeForest Training School, and officially became DeVry University in 2002.
The university has been a division of Adtalem Global Education, a re-branded company that is also the parent organization for many other for-profit education institutions. DeVry University is regionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.
In December 2017, Adtalem announced that it was selling DeVry University to Cogswell Education, a division of Palm Ventures. As of October 2017, DeVry had a total enrollment of 19,287.