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Grand American University

Designed from first principles for serious online scholarship.

Grand American University LLC is a new, deliberately small institution being built in Utah to offer rigorous, research-informed degree study in business and management, education, and public administration and governance — entirely online, in small cohorts, under published academic rules and with complete transparency about what the University is and is not.

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Nine planned programmes in three subject familiesPlanned programmes, not yet open for enrolment

Pre-registration status

Current institutional status

Not yet registered Not enrolling students No applications or payments Planned programmes

Grand American University LLC has not yet been issued a registration certificate by the Utah Division of Consumer Protection. It is not enrolling students and does not accept applications or payments.

This website is an information site published while the University prepares its application for registration. Its programmes are planned programmes, not yet open for enrolment. Full status statements, including accreditation and licensure, are on the Consumer Information page.

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25Teaching cohorts are limited to twenty-five

Institutional purpose

Why the University is being built

Grand American University is being designed for online study from the outset. Its calendar, credit framework, assessment rules, student-support standards and governance have been developed as one academic architecture before any programme is opened.

The University's mission is to provide rigorous, research-informed degree education in business and management, education, and public administration and governance to working adults by distance, taught by qualified faculty in small cohorts, with honest public information about what the University is and is not.

It will remain small by design. Teaching cohorts are limited to twenty-five. Nine degree programmes in three subject families make up the whole of the planned curriculum, and each has been designed in full — outcomes, courses, assessments, calendars and workload — before the University asks anyone to enrol.

About the University

Small by design

It will remain small by design.

Nine degree programmes in three subject families make up the whole of the planned curriculum, and each has been designed in full — outcomes, courses, assessments, calendars and workload — before the University asks anyone to enrol.

25Teaching cohorts are limited to twenty-five

taught by qualified faculty in small cohorts

9Nine degree programmes

each has been designed in full — outcomes, courses, assessments, calendars and workload

3Three subject families

business and management, education, and public administration and governance

Academic philosophy

Scholarship in applied fields

The three subject families share a conviction: that management, education and public administration are fields in which evidence, judgement and ethics must be studied together.

Each programme is built around explicit learning outcomes, courses that develop and assess those outcomes in sequence, and work that uses public or provided information rather than access to an employer.

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  • Bachelor's

    Bachelor's programmes rest on a general-education foundation;

  • Master's

    master's programmes culminate in supervised research;

  • Doctorate

    the doctorates are research degrees examined by internal and external examiners.

Assessment is designed to be transparent

Academic integrity, including the permitted use of artificial-intelligence tools in each assessment, is stated course by course rather than left to inference.

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    published criteria,

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    moderation,

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    written feedback within a stated period,

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    and a published route of appeal.

Academic portfolio

Three subject families

Business and Management · Education · Public Administration and Governance

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    Business and Management

    organisations, decisions, markets and responsible leadership, from a general-education foundation to doctoral research on management questions.

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    Education

    how people learn, how curriculum and assessment are designed, how education systems are governed and made fairer, studied academically and without a route to teacher licensure.

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    Public Administration and Governance

    institutions, law, policy analysis, budgeting and accountability in public and nonprofit organisations, studied academically and conferring no official status.

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Planned provision

Nine planned programmes

Planned programme — not yet open for enrolment

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Business and Management

organisations, decisions, markets and responsible leadership, from a general-education foundation to doctoral research on management questions.

  • Bachelor'sBSBS Business and ManagementPlanned programme — not yet open for enrolment
  • Master'sMSMS Business and ManagementPlanned programme — not yet open for enrolment
  • DoctoratePhDPhD Business and ManagementPlanned programme — not yet open for enrolment

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Academic model

Online by design

The University's academic framework is designed around a sixteen-week semester, a credit defined as forty-five hours of expected student work, and a weekly rhythm of a live session, faculty-moderated discussion, reading and an assessed activity. Live sessions are designed to be recorded and captioned so that study fits around work in different time zones. The assessment framework requires identity verification for live and timed assessment. Support — academic, technical and welfare — is designed with published response standards. Research ethics, data protection and accessibility are built into the rules under which every course will run.

The full model is described on the About page.

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16wka sixteen-week semesterThe University's academic framework is designed around a sixteen-week semester
45ha credit defined as forty-five hours of expected student work
The semester
a weekly rhythm of a live session, faculty-moderated discussion, reading and an assessed activity
a live sessionfaculty-moderated discussionreadingan assessed activity

Live sessions are designed to be recorded and captioned so that study fits around work in different time zones.

The assessment framework requires identity verification for live and timed assessment.

Support — academic, technical and welfare — is designed with published response standards.

Research ethics, data protection and accessibility are built into the rules under which every course will run.

Consumer transparency

What the University tells you before it asks anything of you

The University publishes its legal identity, its registration status, its accreditation status, its licensure position and its outcomes record on one page, in the same controlled words used across the University's regulatory and student-information documents.

Today that page records that the University is not yet registered, is not accredited, prepares no one for a licence, and has enrolled no student. When those facts change, the page will change — and only then.

Consumer Information

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  • Legal identityGrand American University LLC
  • Registration statusnot yet registered
  • Accreditation statusnot accredited
  • Licensure positionprepares no one for a licence
  • Outcomes recordhas enrolled no student

Grand American University

Grand American University is being built slowly and in the open. Its rules were written before its first course, its status is stated before its first student, and nothing on this site asks you to do more than read.

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