"Grand Canyon University (GCU) is a for-profit personal Christian college in Phoenix az, Arizona. Based on pupil enrollment, Grand Canyon College was the largest Christian university worldwide in 2018 with 20,000 participating in students on university and 70,000 online.

Grand Canyon was established by the Arizona Southern Baptist Convention on August 1, 1949, in Prescott, Arizona as Grand Canyon University. In 1999/2000, the university ended its affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention. Experiencing economic and also various other problems in the very early part of the 21st century, the college's trustees licensed its sale in January 2004 to The golden state based Significant Education and learning, LLC, making it the initial for-profit Christian university in the USA. Complying with that purchase, the university became the very first and also only for-profit to join NCAA Division I sports. In 2018 the university got authorization to return to non-profit status from its regional accreditor as well as the Internal Revenue Service as well as the Arizona State Board for Personal Postsecondary Education And Learning. The UNITED STATE Department of Education and learning declined the university's demand to reclassify it as a charitable as well as continues to classify the university as for-profit. The university operations companion directly together with the for-profit publicly traded company, Grand Canyon Education, Inc. that bundles services for the university to run. The college president, Brian Meuller, likewise serves as the CEO of Grand Canyon Education And Learning.

The college uses numerous programs through its 9 colleges including doctoral research studies, service, education and learning, arts as well as manufacturing, humanities and also social sciences, nursing and health care professions, scientific research, faith, design and also modern technology."