Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon University

83% Racial-Ethnic Minorities* (Bachelor's)

If you are interested in studying creative writing, you may want to check out the program at Carnegie Mellon University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Carnegie Mellon is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and approximately 13,519 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Creative Writing section at the bottom of this page.

Carnegie Mellon Creative Writing Degrees Available

Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing

Carnegie Mellon Creative Writing Rankings

The creative writing major at Carnegie Mellon is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Creative Writing. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Creative Writing Student Demographics at Carnegie Mellon

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the creative writing majors at Carnegie Mellon University.

Carnegie Mellon Creative Writing Bachelor’s Program

67% Women

83% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 33% of creative writing bachelor's degrees went to men and 67% went to women. The typical creative writing bachelor's degree program is made up of only 29% men. So male students are more repesented at Carnegie Mellon since its program graduates 4% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 56% more racial-ethnic minorities in its creative writing bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a bachelor's in creative writing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	1
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Careers That Creative Writing Grads May Go Into

A degree in creative writing can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for PA, the home state for Carnegie Mellon University.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
English Language and Literature Professors	3,860	$75,970
Editors	3,020	$62,870
Writers and Authors	1,400	$60,140

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

College Factual
National Center for Education Statistics
O*NET Online
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