[It was] found that GCU advertised prices for its doctoral programs that only 2% percent of those programs’ graduates ended up paying. The rest paid more—much more. By the time they completed their degrees, 78% of graduates from these programs had paid $10,000-12,000 more in total tuition than GCU advertised. The increase in total costs stemmed from “continuation courses”—classes that were required for most students to complete their dissertations but that GCU failed to make clear in enrollment and financial aid disclosures.

Most GCU doctoral programs cost $40,000-$49,000, so the difference between advertised and actual prices amounted to a tuition increase of 25% from what GCU told students to expect to pay and what most students in the doctoral programs ended up paying.

Cool that they spent a ton of money quickly on their sports programs though in an attempt to sportswash the university into normalcy.


.https://www.forbes.com/sites/edwardconroy/2023/11/06/grand-canyon-university-fined-377-million-by-department-of-education/