Bachelor's · Lisle, Illinois
Is Communication and Media Studies at DeVry University-Illinois worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 12.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $55,588
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- Not enough borrowers to report
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $171k (likely $151k – $215k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $17k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in IL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 12.7 years (likely 8.6–20+)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$229k (likely −$351k – −$123k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$30k (likely −$208k – $156k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 40%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications (Graduate certificate)$91,271
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- Northwestern University$93,541
- Southern Illinois University-Carbondale$69,034
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign$66,439
- Lake Forest College$64,580
- Augustana College$63,730
- Wheaton College$60,695
- Illinois State University$60,414
- Loyola University Chicago$58,256
- Eastern Illinois University$57,887
- University of Illinois Chicago$56,845