GCU Student User Reviews

GCU Student
GCU Student
Grand Canyon Education Inc

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Online Student

I live in Texas. The amount of money I have saved thanks to this app is incredible. I do not understand the hate.

Buggy

Constantly signs you out, no matter how many times you sign in. It has nothing to do with password changes. The whole app will break until you have to sign out and back in again regularly.

It’s especially annoying since I only use it to check my future schedule on my phone - pretty simple task. Apparently not.
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never working

always says failed to retrieve data and cat access anything

Budget is Messed up

Unable to get an accurate assessment of how much dining dollars I can spend because it says the semester ends on July 2nd, 2026. For frame of reference, today is September 14, 2025, so the semester actually ends sometime in December. Thus it always says that my daily budget is super low and I go into the negative every day. Pls fix this.
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Useless

I cannot access my classes or coursework. This app is useless.

Terrible

This app is so unreliable and it’s terrible for an “ID.” It will sign you out without warning and then you can’t even sign in because it keeps looping the sign in page. It’s the only app for a valid student ID and it’s terrible. I’ve been using the GCU Life app for food and stuff but I can’t add my picture so it’s not a valid ID.
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Worthless app

This app is basically worthless. You can’t access your class and course work through it.

This app is for campus students only.

I can’t access my classes on the phone. They need to develop an alternative student app for online students. This only serves people who attend school in person.

Not worth the download

This app is useless. At my other college we used canvas and once we downloaded the canvas app we could receive messages from instructors and type messages to instructors through our phone. We were also able to view homework assignments and more on the app. With the GCU app it has none of those functions. Which is useless for an online student. I messaged my instructor about an issue I encountered and now I have to constantly check to see if I got a message by logging into a browser (which takes time). This is not practical for students who do not live on campus or in Arizona.
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Worthless

This app is pointless; doesn’t let you into the student portal at all. Not sure why this app even exists.

awful

awful app

ON CAMPUS review

This is the worst app in the history of apps. It was bad last year but the problems have increased tenfold. The moment I close the app it’s like the devil has possessed it. Suddenly I can’t see any of the stuff I want to anymore. So I log out and log back in. Then I get stuck on the log in page for a billion years. ALL I WANT. IS TO BE ABLE TO OPEN THE APP. AND SEE HOW MANY DINING DOLLARS I HAVE. it cannot possibly be that difficult to create an app that can fulfill that.
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Garbage

For GCU to force students to use this app to show I’d while no longer printing out physical ids is peak idiocy. The id never works the cache never loads. Need to re login again every time the cache fails. Forgot my phone one day and I had to argue with security at the gate to let me in so I can get to the classes I pay thousands of dollars for, all could have been avoided if you still printed out physical ids. Maybe use the tuition students pay to actually make functioning app before forcing them to use this trash app.
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Bad app

This app just always breaks and never works

Worst app i've ever used in my entire life

This app is so bad that I finally lost my mind after 4 years and threw my phone, leaving it basically bent at a 60 degree angle. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE never download this app and everyone possible needs to report it for being the worst app ever. A high school student could develop a better app. Like I don't even know what to do anymore, it is just utterly baffling that they cannot develop a better app. Just simply unbelievable.
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Fix the app!!

Worst app of all time, always broken, sometimes the ID feature doesn’t even work so I can’t use my dining dollars so I’ve had to pay cash for meals.

ground student review

good for scanning to get ur food and seeing the map but that’s it
this app ALWAYS glitches out or says it doesn’t work until u delete and redownload it i had to wait in line while it did that to me, in turn holding up the line

Trash

Dysfunctional, glitchy, and you always have to restart the app and log in again. Fix it.

Never Works

The app never is operating at full functionality. It always forces its users to sign out and back in with each time the app is used. The app would be better off being disbanded.

Horrendous

I have no words this is useless and nothing is being done about it