DeVry to Purchase Caribbean Medical School
By Ronald Roach
OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill.
Business and technology education provider DeVry Inc. has announced that it will buy Ross University for $310 million in cash, in a bid to enter the medicine and health sciences education market. Ross, based in Dominica and St. Kitts-Nevis in the Caribbean, has more than 2,500 medicine and veterinary students, the company said.
Students of Ross University are almost all citizens or permanent residents of the United States and are eligible for financial assistance under Title IV of the Higher Education Act. Ross’ curricula follow the models used in U.S. medical and veterinary schools
