Grand Canyon University

Grand Canyon University (GCU) is a private, revenue driven Christian college placed in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. GCU was established in 1949 as a non-benefit liberal expressions school, and was obtained by Grand Canyon Education, Inc. (NASDAQ: LOPE) in February 2004.

Grand Canyon University is licensed by the Higher Learning Commission and gives grounds based and also online postsecondary instruction administrations concentrated on graduate and college degree programs in training, liberal expressions, business, and medicinal services through its eight schools.

The school was established as a philanthropic organization in 1949. Arizona Southern Baptists felt the need to create a religious organization that would permit neighborhood Baptists the chance to acquire a Bachelor's or Master's degree without setting off east to one of the Baptist schools in Texas or Oklahoma. 

On October 8, 1951, Grand Canyon College moved to its present area in Phoenix. First Southern Baptist Church of Phoenix gave the area vital for the establishment, and a few individuals from that congregation, drove by the Reverend Vaughn Rock and S. F. Hawkins, gave the funds and physical work expected to bring G.C.C, as it was known, into reality. Excellent Canyon College was renamed Grand Canyon University in 1989.[citation needed]

Enduring budgetary and different troubles in the early piece of the 21st century, the school's trustees approved its deal in January 2004 to California-based Significant Education, LLC, making it the first revenue driven Christian school in the United States.

In the fall of 2014, with the school in a superior place fiscally, it reported the investigation of a come back to non-benefit status on October 29. The college's leader and CEO, Brian Mueller, said in an announcement: "We don't have a philosophical issue with having a revenue driven status and having speculators. 

Then again, the disgrace encompassing the revenue driven industry – some of which is merited, and some not – is genuine and it is not moving forward. What's more regardless of what GCU does to particular itself, its depreciators keep on attempting to utilize this shame to diminish GCU's success." 

Mueller has noticed that GCU has been safe to a ton of the issues connected with revenue driven schools, primarily in light of its territorial accreditat