"Grand Canyon University (GCU) is a for-profit exclusive Christian university in Phoenix az, Arizona. Based on student registration, Grand Canyon University was the biggest Christian university on the planet in 2018 with 20,000 participating in pupils on school and also 70,000 online.

Grand Canyon was developed by the Arizona Southern Baptist Convention on August 1, 1949, in Prescott, Arizona as Grand Canyon University. In 1999/2000, the college finished its association with the Southern Baptist Convention. Enduring financial as well as various other problems in the early part of the 21st century, the college's trustees authorized its sale in January 2004 to California based Substantial Education, LLC, making it the first for-profit Christian college in the United States. Adhering to that acquisition, the college became the initial and only for-profit to participate in NCAA Division I athletics. In 2018 the college obtained approval to go back to charitable condition from its regional accreditor as well as the IRS as well as the Arizona State Board for Personal Postsecondary Education And Learning. The UNITED STATE Department of Education declined the college's demand to reclassify it as a non-profit and remains to identify the university as for-profit. The college operations partner directly together with the for-profit publicly traded corporation, Grand Canyon Education And Learning, Inc. that packages services for the college to operate. The university president, Brian Meuller, likewise works as the Chief Executive Officer of Grand Canyon Education.

The college provides numerous programs via its 9 universities including doctoral researches, company, education and learning, arts as well as production, humanities and also social scientific researches, nursing and healthcare careers, scientific research, theology, engineering and innovation."