Bachelor's · Lisle, Illinois
Is Computer and Information Sciences, General 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 7.6 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $65,717
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $42,329
- 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
- $30k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in IL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 7.6 years (likely 5.5–11.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$101k (likely −$232k – $24k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $214k (likely $9k – $440k)
- 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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Other majors at DeVry University-Illinois
- Management Information Systems and Services (Master's)$93,642
- Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications (Master's)$92,609
- Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications (Graduate certificate)$91,271
- Electromechanical Technologies/Technicians (Bachelor's)$88,911
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Graduate certificate)$88,594
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$87,024
- Computer Engineering (Bachelor's)$86,645
- Accounting and Related Services (Graduate certificate)$84,386
- Engineering Technologies/Technicians, General (Bachelor's)$83,554
- Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians (Bachelor's)$83,322
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$80,445
- Computer Engineering Technologies/Technicians (Bachelor's)$79,501
Computer and Information Sciences, General at other schools in Illinois
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign$146,946
- Loyola University Chicago$99,112
- Illinois State University$98,382
- Illinois Institute of Technology$97,153
- Western Illinois University$92,824
- DePaul University$84,554
- Saint Xavier University$75,138
- Southern Illinois University Edwardsville$73,513
- Eastern Illinois University$72,220
- Governors State University$70,895