Press releases

GCU’s Point of Dispensing (POD) site for the Maricopa County Department of Public Health’s distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine is set to reach a milestone that reflects the POD’s importance and growth. It will pass the 50,000 mark in vaccinations Thursday afternoon. It is averaging more than 1,300 vaccines per day and has regularly exceeded 1,700 per day during the past two weeks, including a new daily high of 1,968 on Wednesday.

(Feb. 16, 2021) – GCU’s Colangelo College of Business (CCOB) has received a multiyear grant from Schwab Advisor Services, in partnership with the Charles Schwab Foundation, to create the Charles Schwab Foundation Learning Center and expand the college’s financial planning offerings. The new center will be built in CCOB’s existing 150,000-square-foot, four-story building, serving as a resource center for students and encouraging growth in the Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) industry. The center will also serve as a finance classroom and event/guest speaker space.  “GCU and the Colangelo College of Business are so appreciative of our relationship with Charles Schwab and we are grateful to the Charles Schwab Foundation for this funding to create a learning center,” said CCOB Dean Dr. Randy Gibb. “Financial wellness is vital to our society, so we are so proud of our students for taking an interest in finance and demonstrating their competence to find success with the help and support of Charles Schwab.” CCOB has been working with Charles Schwab since 2018 when the multinational financial services company partnered with GCU to help students prepare for the Securities Industry Essentials (SIE) Exam.   “We are excited to expand on our work with Grand Canyon University […]

GCU is reluctantly filing a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education due to that agency’s continued refusal to acknowledge the university’s nonprofit status for Title IV, HEA purposes. GCU became an Arizona nonprofit institution on July 1, 2018 and is recognized as such by the IRS, the State of Arizona, the Higher Learning Commission and every other regulatory body that governs the University. The Department of Education, 30 months after that transaction, still refuses to recognize GCU’s nonprofit status.

Grand Canyon University is kicking off 2021 with its largest-ever spring semester enrollment and the same commitment to in-person instruction on its campus. Approximately 20,250 students are enrolled for the spring, including 3,500 traditional students and 1,400 evening cohort students who have chosen to attend the University completely online.

GCU is stepping up to assist with COVID-19 vaccination efforts in Arizona by becoming a public Point of Dispensing (POD) for the Maricopa County Department of Public Health. The University’s commercial hub at 27th Avenue and Camelback Road will serve as one of seven POD sites in Maricopa County.

Grand Canyon University is posting a statement to address comments made during a racial reconciliation workshop on campus that portrayed Christianity as a platform for White supremacy and White privilege, as well as defamatory comments that were published in a one-sided Arizona Republic article about a faculty member whose contract was not renewed in the aftermath of that profanity-laced workshop.

For the 13th consecutive year, GCU will be freezing tuition rates on its Phoenix campus. Tuition before institutional scholarships are factored in will remain at $16,500 for the 2021-22 academic year. The campus also is competitive when it comes to room and board, which means graduates at GCU are incurring less debt than the national average at public and private nonprofit colleges.

GCU’s Student Inspiring Students (SIS) Scholarship Program has received a $500,000, five-year grant from The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation. The grant, largest in the program’s history, will fund full-tuition scholarships for “Parsons Scholars” – high school seniors who are the most academically qualified among SIS recipients.

GCU began the 2020-21 school year with another increase in the number of traditional students connected to its Phoenix campus. It expects its largest incoming class ever — more than 8,200 new students — when the fall semester started Sept. 8, bringing total campus-based enrollment to approximately 23,000.

(Aug. 28, 2020) — Grand Canyon University’s bachelor’s degree program in Computer Science has been accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET and bachelor’s degree programs in Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering have been accredited by the Engineering Commission of ABET, the global accreditor of college and university programs in applied and natural science, computing, engineering, and engineering technology.   ABET accreditation assures that programs meet standards to produce graduates ready to enter critical technical fields that are leading the way in innovation and emerging technologies, and anticipating the welfare and safety needs of the public. “We are very excited to receive this acknowledgment from the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET),” said Brian Mueller, President of Grand Canyon University. “Our computer science program was launched in 2014 and engineering followed in 2015, so this was our first opportunity for accreditation after they had their first graduating classes. These innovative, interdisciplinary, project-based programs are already meeting the high standards that GCU academics are known for.” Sought worldwide, ABET’s voluntary peer-review process is highly respected because it adds critical value to academic programs in the technical disciplines, where quality, precision, and safety are of the utmost importance. […]