"Grand Canyon College (GCU) is a for-profit exclusive Christian college in Phoenix metro, Arizona. Based upon trainee enrollment, Grand Canyon University was the largest Christian university worldwide in 2018 with 20,000 going to students on university as well as 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 affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention. Experiencing monetary and also other problems in the early part of the 21st century, the college's trustees accredited its sale in January 2004 to The golden state based Considerable Education, LLC, making it the very first for-profit Christian college in the United States. Following that acquisition, the university came to be the initial and also just for-profit to participate in NCAA Division I sports. In 2018 the college obtained approval to go back to charitable status from its local accreditor along with the IRS as well as the Arizona State Board for Private Postsecondary Education. The UNITED STATE Division of Education and learning rejected the university's request to reclassify it as a non-profit as well as continues to identify the university as for-profit. The college procedures partner directly along with the for-profit publicly traded company, Grand Canyon Education, Inc. that bundles services for the college to run. The university president, Brian Meuller, likewise acts as the CEO of Grand Canyon Education.

The university offers numerous programs through its nine colleges consisting of doctoral researches, company, education, fine arts and production, humanities and also social scientific researches, nursing and health care careers, scientific research, faith, engineering as well as modern technology."