"Grand Canyon College (GCU) is a for-profit personal Christian college in Phoenix metro, Arizona. Based on trainee registration, Grand Canyon College was the biggest Christian university worldwide in 2018 with 20,000 participating in 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 university ended its affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention. Enduring financial as well as various other problems in the very early part of the 21st century, the college's trustees accredited its sale in January 2004 to California based Considerable Education and learning, LLC, making it the initial for-profit Christian university in the USA. Following that acquisition, the college came to be the very first as well as just for-profit to participate in NCAA Division I sports. In 2018 the university got authorization to go back to non-profit status from its regional accreditor along with the Internal Revenue Service as well as the Arizona State Board for Exclusive Postsecondary Education And Learning. The U.S. Division of Education declined the university's demand to reclassify it as a non-profit and also remains to classify the university as for-profit. The university procedures partner straight together with the for-profit openly traded corporation, Grand Canyon Education And Learning, Inc. that bundles solutions for the college to run. The university president, Brian Meuller, also works as the CEO of Grand Canyon Education And Learning.

The college offers various programs through its 9 colleges including doctoral researches, business, education and learning, arts and also manufacturing, humanities and social sciences, nursing and health care occupations, science, theology, design and innovation."