"Grand Canyon University (GCU) is a for-profit personal Christian university in Phoenix az, Arizona. Based upon pupil registration, Grand Canyon College was the largest Christian university on the planet in 2018 with 20,000 attending pupils on school as well as 70,000 online.

Grand Canyon was established by the Arizona Southern Baptist Convention on August 1, 1949, in Prescott, Arizona as Grand Canyon College. In 1999/2000, the university finished its association with the Southern Baptist Convention. Experiencing monetary and also other troubles in the very early part of the 21st century, the school's trustees accredited its sale in January 2004 to The golden state based Considerable Education and learning, LLC, making it the first for-profit Christian college in the United States. Complying with that purchase, the university came to be the initial as well as only for-profit to join NCAA Division I sports. In 2018 the university obtained approval to go back to charitable condition from its regional accreditor as well as the Internal Revenue Service as well as the Arizona State Board for Private Postsecondary Education And Learning. The UNITED STATE Department of Education and learning denied the college's request to reclassify it as a charitable as well as remains to classify the university as for-profit. The university operations partner directly alongside the for-profit openly traded corporation, Grand Canyon Education And Learning, Inc. that bundles solutions for the university to run. The college president, Brian Meuller, additionally works as the CEO of Grand Canyon Education.

The college uses various programs through its nine universities including doctoral research studies, company, education, fine arts and also production, humanities and social sciences, nursing as well as health care careers, science, theology, design and modern technology."