"Grand Canyon College (GCU) is a for-profit private Christian college in Phoenix, Arizona. Based upon trainee registration, Grand Canyon College was the biggest Christian college on the planet in 2018 with 20,000 going to trainees on campus as well as 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 affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention. Experiencing financial as well as other troubles in the early part of the 21st century, the college's trustees authorized its sale in January 2004 to California based Considerable Education and learning, LLC, making it the initial for-profit Christian university in the United States. Following that purchase, the university came to be the initial as well as just for-profit to participate in NCAA Division I sports. In 2018 the college obtained approval to return to non-profit condition from its local accreditor along with the Internal Revenue Service and also the Arizona State Board for Exclusive Postsecondary Education. The U.S. Division of Education rejected the college's demand to reclassify it as a non-profit and also continues to identify the university as for-profit. The college operations companion straight alongside the for-profit openly traded company, Grand Canyon Education, Inc. that bundles services for the university to operate. The university head of state, Brian Meuller, additionally works as the CEO of Grand Canyon Education.

The college offers different programs through its 9 colleges including doctoral studies, service, education, fine arts and also production, humanities and social sciences, nursing as well as health care occupations, scientific research, theology, design and innovation."