"Grand Canyon College (GCU) is a for-profit personal Christian college in Phoenix, Arizona. Based on pupil registration, Grand Canyon College was the biggest Christian college worldwide 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 College. In 1999/2000, the university finished its affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention. Experiencing financial and also various other problems in the very early part of the 21st century, the institution's trustees authorized its sale in January 2004 to The golden state based Considerable Education, LLC, making it the initial for-profit Christian university in the United States. Following that acquisition, the college ended up being the first and also just for-profit to join NCAA Division I sports. In 2018 the university obtained authorization to go back to non-profit standing from its local accreditor along with the Internal Revenue Service and also the Arizona State Board for Personal Postsecondary Education And Learning. The UNITED STATE Division of Education declined the university's request to reclassify it as a charitable and continues to categorize the college as for-profit. The university operations companion straight alongside the for-profit publicly traded firm, Grand Canyon Education And Learning, Inc. that bundles services for the college to operate. The university president, Brian Meuller, also works as the CEO of Grand Canyon Education.

The university supplies numerous programs with its 9 colleges consisting of doctoral research studies, organisation, education, fine arts and production, humanities and also social scientific researches, nursing and also healthcare careers, science, faith, design and also technology."