Creative Writing at Central Washington University

Every creative writing school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the creative writing program at Central Washington University stacks up to those at other schools.

CWU is located in Ellensburg, Washington and has a total student population of 11,174.

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.

CWU Creative Writing Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing

CWU Creative Writing Rankings

The creative writing major at CWU 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 CWU

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

CWU Creative Writing Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 27% of creative writing bachelor's degrees went to men and 73% went to women.

About 60% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in creative writing at CWU are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 5% 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 Central Washington University with a bachelor's in creative writing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	14
White	40
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	12

Related Majors

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 WA, the home state for Central Washington University.

Occupation	Jobs in WA	Average Salary in WA
Editors	1,830	$67,560
English Language and Literature Professors	1,450	$61,580
Writers and Authors	1,400	$65,200
Professors	1,060	$74,330

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
• Image Credit: By Bobak Ha’Eri under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.