14 Locations Of DeVry U. Will Close, Parent Company Announces

“The DeVry Education Group will close 14 campuses of its namesake DeVry University by the end of the year, the company said on Thursday as it announced declines in enrollments and earnings for the fiscal quarter ending in March,” The Chronicle of Higher Education’s The Ticker blog reports.

“For the March session at DeVry University, new undergraduate enrollments decreased by 17.2 percent, to 4,156, compared with 5,018 the previous year, the company said in a news release. Total undergraduate enrollments were down 15 percent, to 36,188. Graduate-level enrollments were down also.

The Commercial Appeal, a newspaper in Memphis, where one of the campuses that will close is located, said existing students who elected to move their course work to DeVry’s online catalog would receive a 20-percent reduction in tuition. It also said the company had offered to help students transfer to other DeVry locations or to find comparable college programs in Memphis.

Other cities where campuses will close, according to The Commercial Appeal, are Detroit; Indianapolis; Milwaukee; Minneapolis; Pittsburgh; Portland, Ore.; Seattle; St. Louis; and Tampa, Fla.”