"Grand Canyon University (GCU) is a for-profit exclusive Christian university in Phoenix metro, Arizona. Based on student registration, Grand Canyon College was the biggest Christian university in the world in 2018 with 20,000 going to trainees on campus 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 college finished its association with the Southern Baptist Convention. Experiencing monetary as well as various other troubles in the early part of the 21st century, the college's trustees accredited its sale in January 2004 to The golden state based Substantial Education, LLC, making it the very first for-profit Christian college in the USA. Complying with that acquisition, the university became the initial and just for-profit to take part in NCAA Department I athletics. In 2018 the university received approval to go back to charitable standing 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 U.S. Department of Education and learning rejected the university's request to reclassify it as a non-profit and remains to categorize the university as for-profit. The college procedures partner straight together with the for-profit openly traded company, Grand Canyon Education And Learning, Inc. that bundles services for the university to operate. The university president, Brian Meuller, additionally serves as the CEO of Grand Canyon Education.

The college offers different programs through its nine universities consisting of doctoral researches, service, education, fine arts and also manufacturing, liberal arts and also social scientific researches, nursing and health care careers, science, theology, engineering and modern technology."