Associate - Electronics and Computer Technology

Hands-on, problem-solving electronics and computer technologists and technicians keep our wired world running at peak performance. Technology degree holders work in areas such as field service, sales and manufacturing, building, installing, testing, evaluating and maintaining electronic systems, tools and equipment. With a technology degree, career options are nearly endless, with chip/component production and equipment manufacturing as well as companies involved in microtechnology, nanotechnology and biotechnology exceeding the average growth rate for new careers.

Earn your associate degree in Electronics and Computer Technology from DeVry University--in as few as 2 years or less!--and secure your future in the hottest fields and industries as a make-it-happen, troubleshooting professional.

Associate - Health Information Technology

Health care technology puts you in a growing industry where there's a strong career outlook for technologists like clinical coders, data analysts, patient information coordinators and health record technicians. Fueled by new information privacy regulations, careers in health care technology are among the 20 occupations projected to grow fastest through 2012.*

Let DeVry University's Health Information Technology associate degree program prepare you--in as few as 2 years or less--to work as a skilled professional in hospitals, physician's offices, clinics and other medical or mental health facilities as well as for pharmaceutical companies, educational institutions, government agencies and vendor firms.

Associate - Network Systems Administration

The Network Systems Administration associate degree program provides students with a background in network systems administration as applied to practical business situations. The degree program addresses installing, configuring, securing and administering network systems comprising users, shared resources and network elements, such as routers, in local and Internet-based environments.

Associate - Web Graphic Design

With the dramatic growth of the Internet and exciting technological advances in the design field, web design degree holders are uniquely poised to take advantage of career opportunities in a huge variety of areas, including advertising, marketing, technical communications, publishing and training. In fact, employment of graphic designers is expected to grow 10 percent each year through 2016*. With a web design degree, you'll gain both the design and technical skills and the experience to stand out in a field where jobs are growing and competition is fierce.

As you earn your associate degree in web graphic design, you'll learn to develop all types of graphic media--web pages, marketing collateral, advertising, instructional material and multimedia projects--through a collaborative approach.

By mastering key software applications, fundamental design principles, web content management and animation, you'll be prepared to design, illustrate, compile and produce visual solutions for communications, especially for the Internet.

* Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-09 Edition, Graphic Designers, http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos090.htm.

Bachelor - Computer Information Systems

DeVry University's CIS bachelor's degree program provides students with the technical skills and business principles needed to identify, analyze and design business solutions as well as develop, test and implement supporting code and databases. An accelerated program is available at select locations.

Bachelor - Game & Simulation Programming

DeVry University's Game and Simulation Programming curriculum prepares graduates to join the private and public sector game software industry in a variety of software development roles across the game programming life cycle, including programmer, software engineer and project coordinator. Applications-oriented, the degree program provides preparation in the math and physics of games; programming fundamentals; game design; modifications (MOD) and massively multi-player online game (MMOG) programming; two- and three-dimensional graphics programming; and simulation and game engine design. Also included is a full complement of general education courses, recommended by game industry experts as critical for well-rounded development team members.

(Note: the program focuses on programming, not graphic arts.)

Bachelor - Multimedia Design and Development

In DeVry University's Multimedia Design and Development bachelor's degree program, you'll learn multimedia standards, the graphics business and emerging technologies. In addition, through the multimedia core coursework you'll learn how to produce high-quality, web-enabled graphics and develop all types of graphic media - web pages, marketing collateral, advertising, instructional material and multimedia projects - through a collaborative approach. By mastering key software applications, fundamental design principles, web content management and graphics animation, you'll be prepared to design, illustrate, compile and produce visual solutions for communications, especially for the Internet.

The Multimedia Design and Development program offers the following specializations:

• Graphic and Multimedia Design
• Graphics and Multimedia Management
• Web Design and Development
• Web Game Programming

Bachelor - Network and Communications Management

DeVry University's NCM program provides students with the technical skills and business principles needed to work with telecommunications systems that range in complexity from a connection within a single building to global networks throughout a multinational organization. An accelerated program is available at select locations.