Grand Canyon University

Grand Canyon University.

Fantastic Canyon University (ordinarily alluded to as GCU or Grand Canyon) is a private Christian metropolitan examination college situated in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. GCU was established in 1949 as a non-benefit human sciences school, and was acquired by Grand Canyon Education, Inc. (NASDAQ: LOPE) in February 2004. At present Grand Canyon is the main revenue driven college partaking in NCAA Division 1 sports. The college is locally certify by the Higher Learning Commission and gives grounds based and in addition online postsecondary instruction administrations concentrated on graduate and college degree programs in training, human sciences, business, science, building, math, religious philosophy and Christian studies, and social insurance through its eight schools. The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education arranges GCU as an exploration college with moderate examination action. The school was established as a not-for-profit organization in 1949 in Prescott. Arizona Southern Baptists felt the need to build up a religious establishment that would permit nearby Baptists the chance to get a lone ranger's or graduate degree without going east to one of the Baptist schools in Texas or Oklahoma. On October 8, 1951, Grand Canyon College migrated to its present area in Phoenix. In 2006, the Grand Canyon University grounds got a US$150 million makeover including a block promenade, an aquatics focus, with pool and hot tub, and a bistro offering a variety of diversions and extra large TVs. In 2009, Grand Canyon University's grounds started deal with a $60 million grounds extension venture which incorporates a 500-bed quarters, a 55,000-square-foot (5,100 m2) wellness and amusement focus, 125-classroom office, sustenance court and rocking the bowling alley back street, and a 5,000 seat enclosure. The GCU Arena, which opened on September 2, 2011, is used for mainstream and non-common shows, speakers, and occasions, and also being home to Grand Canyon University's Men's and Women's b-ball groups, and Women's Volleyball games, starting in the fall of 2013. The three-year-old stadium is now experiencing real extension starting in Spring of 2014 with the objective of extending to around 7,000 seats. it is very famous univercity.