Grand Canyon University Projected to Have Record Breaking Enrollment

“The university expects enrollment to reach 133,000 this fall, drawing students from all 50 states.”

Posted by Mike LaChance Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 10:00am 1 Comment

This is big news because GCU is a Christian school that was targeted under the Biden administration.

Christian university breaks records despite Biden-era probes

The largest Christian university in the country is projected to have record-breaking enrollment for the 2025-2026 school year after years of legal battles with federal agencies under the Biden administration, which recently ended when charges were dropped.

“Our growth never stopped… we just grew right through it,” Grand Canyon University (GCU) President Brian Mueller told Fox News Digital.

During the Biden administration, GCU faced numerous federal probes into their operations.

“As a result of our growth… we plowed right through it because we have something that is a big part of what America wants,” he said. “The largest private university in the country now is a university that teaches from a Christian worldview.”

The university announced on Monday that it is projected to have record-breaking enrollment this fall. The university expects enrollment to reach 133,000 this fall, drawing students from all 50 states.

GCU was recently cleared of federal allegations after university officials said the school was unjustly targeted by the Biden administration. In 2023, the FTC under the Biden administration filed suit in federal court against GCU, claiming it used deceptive advertising and engaged in illegal telemarketing. The complaint was the Arizona-based school misled prospective doctoral students about the amount of time it would take to finish its accelerated program, deceptively marketed the school as a nonprofit, and illegally called prospective students who submitted their contact information on the school’s website but requested not to be contacted. The Biden administration denied GCU’s nonprofit recognition after it was approved by the Arizona Board for Private Postsecondary Education, the Internal Revenue Service, the State of Arizona, and the Higher Learning Commission.