"Grand Canyon University (GCU) is a for-profit personal Christian college in Phoenix metro, Arizona. Based on trainee enrollment, Grand Canyon University was the biggest Christian university on the planet in 2018 with 20,000 going to pupils 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 college ended its affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention. Experiencing monetary and also various other troubles in the early part of the 21st century, the school's trustees licensed its sale in January 2004 to The golden state based Significant Education, LLC, making it the first for-profit Christian university in the USA. Adhering to that purchase, the university became the first and only for-profit to join NCAA Division I athletics. In 2018 the university got authorization to return to non-profit standing from its regional accreditor in addition to 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 declined the college's demand to reclassify it as a charitable and also continues to classify the college as for-profit. The university procedures companion directly together with the for-profit openly traded firm, Grand Canyon Education, Inc. that bundles services for the university to operate. The university head of state, Brian Meuller, also acts as the CEO of Grand Canyon Education.

The university provides various programs via its nine universities including doctoral research studies, company, education, arts as well as manufacturing, liberal arts and also social sciences, nursing and also health care careers, science, faith, design and modern technology."