• How agentic AI helps prospective and existing students at DeVry The hybrid online and on-site university has developed an AI agent to help students at any hour. • DeVry University has turned to agentic AI to solve a major pain point for its students. • Founded in 1931 as DeForest Training School in Chicago, DeVry serves more than 32,000 students with both online and hybrid educational programs in technology, business, and healthcare. • About 83% of the private for-profit university’s undergraduate students are older than 25, with most holding full-time jobs, and about 50% are parents. • They’re doing most of their learning in the hours the university typically has no faculty or advisors available to help when they have questions. • “Our students are doing the vast majority of their learning at the end of their workday, after they’ve made dinner and put the family to bed,” says DeVry CIO Chris Campbell.
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- The hybrid online and on-site university has developed an AI agent to help students at any hour. Credit: DeVry University DeVry University has turned to agentic AI to solve a major pain point for its students. Founded in 1931 as DeForest Training School in Chicago, DeVry serves more than 32,000 students with both online and hybrid educational programs in technology, business, and healthcare. About 83% of the private for-profit university’s undergraduate students are older than 25, with most holding full-time jobs, and about 50% are parents. The problem? They’re doing most of their learning in
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