"Grand Canyon College (GCU) is a for-profit personal Christian college in Phoenix az, Arizona. Based on trainee registration, Grand Canyon University was the largest Christian college on the planet in 2018 with 20,000 attending trainees on school and also 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 college finished its affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention. Experiencing economic as well as other troubles in the early part of the 21st century, the institution's trustees accredited its sale in January 2004 to The golden state based Considerable Education and learning, LLC, making it the initial for-profit Christian university in the USA. Adhering to that acquisition, the college became the very first and only for-profit to take part in NCAA Department I sports. In 2018 the college obtained authorization to go back to non-profit status from its regional accreditor in addition to the IRS as well as the Arizona State Board for Exclusive Postsecondary Education And Learning. The UNITED STATE Division of Education turned down the college's request to reclassify it as a non-profit as well as remains to categorize the college as for-profit. The university procedures companion directly along with the for-profit openly traded corporation, Grand Canyon Education And Learning, Inc. that bundles services for the university to operate. The university president, Brian Meuller, additionally functions as the CEO of Grand Canyon Education.

The college provides numerous programs via its 9 colleges including doctoral research studies, service, education and learning, arts as well as manufacturing, humanities as well as social sciences, nursing and also health care occupations, scientific research, faith, engineering and technology."