DeVry University-Georgia

Private for-profitSpecial Focus: EngineeringSmall

Fin. Resilience

Resilience score

vs. 22 peers in its group

DeVry University-Georgia is a private for-profit institution in Decatur, GA, classified by Carnegie as “Special Focus: Engineering.”

It enrolls about 516 undergraduates and is benchmarked here against 22 peer institutions (Special Focus: Engineering · Private for-profit).

On Ibex's Financial Resilience score it rates 38 out of 100 within that peer group, a transparent composite of endowment per undergraduate, net tuition revenue per student, and instructional spend per student.

Its strongest standing relative to peers is median earnings (10 yr) ($45,987, 95th percentile).

Its weakest is full-time faculty share (8.6%).

Ibex's cross-metric scan flags: Undergrad enrollment down 56% since 2016; First-year retention 40% (below 60%).

Peer group

Special Focus: Engineering · Private for-profit

22 institutions

Undergrad enrollment down 56% since 2016

First-year retention 40% (below 60%)

Policy & demographic exposure

How exposed DeVry University-Georgia is to the structural shifts reshaping higher ed: a composite structural-risk index plus the 2025 federal budget law’s endowment excise tax and Grad PLUS elimination and the demographic enrollment cliff. Only signals that apply to this institution are shown.

Enrollment cliff (home state)

-5.4%

Moderate decline

Indicative signals, not forecasts — see each metric’s definition and the methodology. Endowment-tax and Grad PLUS figures appear only where the institution is actually exposed; “nationally” compares against all schools that report each signal.

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Revenue composition

Where the money comes from $7.2M total revenue · IPEDS FY2022-23

Tuition & fees is the largest single source at 98% of revenue.

Tuition & fees97.9%

Auxiliary enterprises2.1%

Where each dollar of revenue comes from, as a share of total positive revenue. Sources are standardized across public (GASB) and private (FASB) reporting; a net investment loss in a down market is shown as 0% and excluded from the mix.

Financial Health

Net tuition revenue / FTE

Average

$11,784

45th percentile in peer grouppeer median $12,615

Instructional spend / FTE

Below peers

$1,780

32nd percentile in peer grouppeer median $2,236

In-state tuition & fees

$17,408

91st percentile in peer grouppeer median $13,920

Out-of-state tuition & fees

$17,408

91st percentile in peer grouppeer median $13,920

Avg annual cost of attendance

$38,315

69th percentile in peer grouppeer median $25,596

Avg monthly faculty salary

Strong

$9,146

89th percentile in peer grouppeer median $8,381

Average monthly salary of full-time faculty, as reported to IPEDS.

Average net price

Below peers

$28,229

69th percentile in peer grouppeer median $22,593

Graduation & completion

Graduation rate · first-time, full-time

12.5%

12.5% graduate within 6 years (150% of normal time)
16.7% on-time, within 4 years (100%)
Counts only students who entered full-time as first-time freshmen and earned a bachelor's here — the conventional headline rate. Excludes part-time entrants and transfer-ins.

Completion rate · all students

17.5%

17.5% earned a degree or certificate within 8 years (IPEDS Outcome Measures)
The broader cohort — also counts part-time entrants and transfer-ins, and any credential. More inclusive, so it can run higher than the graduation rate.

Why two numbers? They measure different students over different windows, so they are not directly comparable. The graduation rate is the standard federal headline but tracks only first-time, full-time students through a bachelor's; the all-students completion rate adds the part-time and transfer students it leaves out, over a longer window. Read each for what it covers. Source: U.S. Department of Education — IPEDS Graduation Rates & Outcome Measures, via College Scorecard.

Enrollment & Pipeline

Undergraduate enrollment

516

55th percentile in peer grouppeer median 375

Admission rate

100%

100th percentile in peer grouppeer median 95.9%

First-year retention

Below peers

40%

24th percentile in peer grouppeer median 73.3%

Graduation rate (6-yr · first-time, full-time)

Below peers

12.5%

29th percentile in peer grouppeer median 30.8%

Graduation rate (4-yr on-time · first-time, full-time)

Strong

16.7%

67th percentile in peer grouppeer median 7.7%

Pell recipient share

73.7%

73rd percentile in peer grouppeer median 54.1%

Program concentration (HHI)

Highly concentrated

5,517

— percentile in peer group

How concentrated the institution's degree and certificate output is across academic fields (CIP 2-digit families), as a Herfindahl-Hirschman Index on the latest year's completions: 10,000 means every completion is in one field; lower means output is spread across many. A higher value means the school leans on fewer fields and is more exposed to demand shifts in them; a lower value reflects a broad program portfolio. Shown for institutions reporting at least 100 annual completions. A structural-diversification signal, not a measure of quality.

12-month FTE enrollment

982

59th percentile in peer grouppeer median 550

Full-time-equivalent enrollment over the full 12-month year (IPEDS 12-month enrollment, 2022-23). Counts part-time students at their fractional load, so it runs above fall full-time headcount and is the denominator used for per-student finance measures.

Student-faculty ratio

11:1

50th percentile in peer grouppeer median 14:1

Students per instructional faculty member (IPEDS, fall 2023). Lower generally means smaller classes and more faculty contact, though the measure mixes undergraduate and graduate teaching and is institution-reported.

Enrollment cliff (home state)

Moderate decline

-5.4%

— percentile in peer group

Projected change in the number of high-school graduates in the institution's HOME STATE from the class of 2025 (the national peak) to 2041, per WICHE's Knocking at the College Door, 11th Edition (Dec 2024). The 'enrollment cliff' is the post-2008 birth decline reaching college age; the U.S. total is projected to fall about 13% over this window. A college recruits from many states, so its home-state projection is an indicative directional signal of feeder-market pressure, not a forecast of that institution's own enrollment.

Completion rate (all students · 8-yr)

Average

17.5%

50th percentile in peer grouppeer median 17.8%

Share of ALL entering degree-seeking undergraduates — full- and part-time, first-time and transfer-in — who earned a degree or certificate at this institution within eight years (IPEDS Outcome Measures, via College Scorecard). Broader and more inclusive than the graduation-rate figures, which count only first-time, full-time students entering a bachelor's program — so the two are measured on different groups of students and are not directly comparable.

Admission yield

92.3%

— percentile in peer group

Share of admitted students who enrolled (IPEDS Admissions, Fall 2023): students who enrolled ÷ students admitted. A demand signal — how many accepted offers the institution converts to enrollment. Higher yield generally reflects stronger demand, though binding early-decision programs and price positioning can inflate it. Open-admission institutions do not report admissions and show none.

Student body

Undergraduate race & ethnicity IPEDS 2024-25

Black65.9%

White15.1%

Unknown8.0%

Hispanic/Latino5.4%

Two or more races2.7%

Asian1.2%

American Indian/Alaska Native0.8%

International0.8%

Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander0.2%

Undergraduate enrollment by race and ethnicity, as reported to IPEDS (College Scorecard). “International” denotes nonresident students; “Unknown” means race/ethnicity was not reported.

Student Outcomes & Risk

Median earnings (10 yr)

Strong

$45,987

95th percentile in peer grouppeer median $40,092

Median debt at graduation

Average

$24,807

48th percentile in peer grouppeer median $31,000

3-yr cohort default rate

Average

10.1%

43rd percentile in peer grouppeer median 11.3%

Share of borrowers who defaulted within three years of entering repayment (U.S. Dept. of Education official cohort default rate). Shown for the FY2017 borrower cohort — the most recent cohort whose full three-year default window closed before the 2020-23 federal student-loan payment pause. More recent cohorts are reported by the College Scorecard at essentially 0%, but that reflects the payment pause (no payments were due, so almost no one could default), not borrower health, so the pre-pause cohort is the last meaningful reading. Lower is better.

Share taking federal loans

80.7%

73rd percentile in peer grouppeer median 59.8%

Full-time faculty share

Below peers

8.6%

17th percentile in peer grouppeer median 16.7%

Debt-to-earnings ratio

Average

0.54×

47th percentile in peer grouppeer median 1.01×

Return on credential

Average

0.30×

40th percentile in peer grouppeer median 0.40×

Median 10-year earnings divided by the four-year cost of attendance (average annual cost × 4). A rough payback ratio: 1.0× means a graduate's annual 10-year earnings roughly equal the full four-year sticker cost. Earnings reflect federally-aided students; cost of attendance is the published sticker price before aid, so this is conservative relative to what families net of aid pay.

Field-demand outlook (10-yr)

Outpaces job-market average

+3.8%

23rd percentile in peer group

Projected 10-year (2024-34) change in U.S. employment for the occupations this institution's degrees and certificates feed, blended across its program mix. Built by mapping each CIP 2-digit field to its occupations via the NCES CIP-SOC crosswalk, taking the employment-weighted average of each occupation's BLS-projected percent change, then weighting fields by the institution's latest-year completions. The U.S. all-occupations benchmark is 3.1%, so a higher value means the school's graduates concentrate in faster-growing labor markets. An INDICATIVE field-level signal at broad-field granularity — not a program-specific or graduate-specific projection, and not a placement or earnings guarantee. Structurally diffuse CIP families whose crosswalk maps to 'any job' are excluded from the signal: 05 Area/Ethnic/Gender Studies, 24 Liberal Arts & Humanities, and 30 Multi/Interdisciplinary. Shown where at least 50% of completions fall in fields with a coherent occupational mapping and the school reports 100+ annual completions.

Loan repayment rate (3-yr)

37.6%

95th percentile in peer grouppeer median 24.6%

Share of student-loan borrowers who had repaid at least $1 of their loan principal within three years of entering repayment (College Scorecard, FY2024-25). Read it as context, not a simple good/bad score: a low rate can mean borrowers are struggling, but it can also mean many graduates have postponed payments while enrolled in graduate or professional school, which is common at selective schools and pushes their rate down. Unlike the cohort default rate, it is not distorted by the 2020-23 federal payment pause. Reported only where enough borrowers exist.

Top fields of study (bachelor's)

DeVry University-Georgia’s largest fields by completions, with graduate earnings (4 years out) and debt benchmarked against the same field at its peer group. Sparklines show the 8-year completions trend.

Field	Completions / yr	Median earnings, 4 yrs out	Median debt	Earnings premium	Risk score
Business, Management & Marketing	107	$68,207 88th pct · 16 peers	—	Above benchmark +93%	Moderate · 50
Computer & Information Sciences	21	$64,371 7th pct · 15 peers	—	Above benchmark +82%	Moderate · 50
Health Professions & Clinical Sciences	4	$52,470 67th pct · 6 peers	—	Above benchmark +49%	Low · 15
Engineering Technologies	1	$83,911 100th pct · 5 peers	—	Above benchmark +138%	Moderate · 50
Communication & Journalism	—	$51,752 100th pct · 5 peers	—	Above benchmark +47%	Low · 0
Engineering	—	$86,645	—	Above benchmark +146%	Moderate · 50
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting	—	$58,145 100th pct · 14 peers	—	Above benchmark +65%	Moderate · 50

All 7 top fields shown clear the GA state earnings-premium benchmark (indicative).

Earnings-premium status is an indicative estimate: median graduate earnings four years out vs the GA state median earnings of a high-school graduate (undergraduate credentials) or a bachelor’s-degree holder (graduate credentials) from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (2022 ACS 5-year). The official U.S. Department of Education determination uses its own cohort definition and may differ.

The risk score (0–100) is an indicative blend of earnings-premium margin and the five-year completions trend—higher means a field pays closer to (or below) the benchmark and is shrinking. A directional screen, not an official determination.

See the interactive dashboard for all fields and credential levels (associate through doctoral). Source: College Scorecard Field of Study.

Frequently asked

How selective is DeVry University-Georgia?

DeVry University-Georgia admits about 100% of applicants, and roughly 40% of first-year students return for a second year.

What is DeVry University-Georgia's student-faculty ratio?

DeVry University-Georgia reports a student-faculty ratio of 11:1 (IPEDS, fall 2023) — that is, about 11 students for every instructional faculty member.

How much does DeVry University-Georgia cost?

The average published cost of attendance is $38,315 and the average net price after aid is $28,229 (College Scorecard).

How much do DeVry University-Georgia graduates earn?

Median earnings ten years after entry are $45,987 (College Scorecard), measured across students who received federal aid.

Are DeVry University-Georgia's programs at risk under the federal earnings-premium test?

Indicatively, at DeVry University-Georgia, all 7 of the largest fields with available earnings data clear the GA state earnings-premium benchmark used by the 2025 federal test (effective July 1, 2026) — median graduate earnings (four years out) exceed those of a typical worker without the credential. This is an estimate using College Scorecard earnings vs ACS medians; the official Department of Education determination may differ.

Which schools are DeVry University-Georgia's peers?

DeVry University-Georgia is benchmarked against 22 institutions in the Special Focus: Engineering · Private for-profit peer group; all percentiles and medians on this page are computed within that group.

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Source: U.S. Department of Education — College Scorecard & IPEDS (most recent releases), with the U.S. Census Bureau (ACS), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Employment Projections, field-demand outlook) and WICHE (enrollment-cliff projections). Figures lag the current academic year by roughly two to three years. Percentiles and medians are computed within the institution's peer group. Financial Resilience is a transparent composite — see each component above. Compiled by Ibex Insights.