DeVry Education Group (1990–2018)
DeVry Inc. completed its initial public offering on June 21, 1991.[6] In 1992, DeVry lost the highest scoring basketball game in history to Troy State University (now Troy University), 258 to 141.
In 1995, its stock began trading on the New York Stock Exchange.[7]
In 1996, DeVry acquired Becker CPA Review—a firm that prepared students for the Uniform Certified Public Accountant Examination—for an undisclosed amount of cash,[8] the tentative purchase price of which was US$18.685 million (about ).[9] In 2003, DeVry acquired Ross University, a medical and veterinary school based in the Caribbean, for a price variously reported at $310 million (about $ in )[10] and $329 million ($ in ).[11] DeVry moved into the nursing field in March 2005 with the acquisition of Deaconess College of Nursing, a St. Louis–based nursing college that conferred both associate's and bachelor's degrees in nursing,[2] at a price variously reported at about $5.3 million ($ in )[12] and $5.4 million ($ in ).[11] Deaconess College of Nursing was later renamed Chamberlain College of Nursing.[2]
DeVry Inc. entered Brazil with its 2009 acquisition of Faculdade Nordeste (FANOR), Ruy Barbosa and ÁREA 1, which are universities located in the Northeast of Brazil.[13]
In 2010, DeVry University had nearly 90 campus learning sites in 26 states and more than 7,000 employees. The parent company had more than 12,000 employees. DeVry University's undergraduate enrollment reached 68,290 students by the summer of 2010.[14]
In 2012, the university acquired Faculdade Boa Viagem and Faculdade do Vale do Ipojuca.[13] DeVry acquired a sixth Brazilian university, Faculdade Differencial Integral, in 2013.[13] DeVry Inc. was renamed DeVry Education Group later that year.[15] DeVry Education Group changed its name to Adtalem Global Education in May 2017,[16] and announced in December 2017 that they would hand off DeVry University and Keller Graduate School to Cogswell Education (a division of Palm Ventures) for no upfront cost, pending regulatory and accreditor approval.[17]
In December 2018, the parent company Adtalem finalized the handover of both DeVry University and Keller Graduate School of Management to Cogswell Education.[18]
