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Creative Writing at Colby College

Creative Writing at Colby College

If you plan to study creative writing, take a look at what Colby College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Colby is located in Waterville, Maine and approximately 2,155 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.

Colby Creative Writing Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing

Colby Creative Writing Rankings

The creative writing major at Colby 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 Colby

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the creative writing majors at Colby College.

Colby Creative Writing Bachelor’s Program

73% Women
41% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 27% of creative writing bachelor's degrees went to men and 73% went to women.

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About 55% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in creative writing at Colby are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 13% 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 Colby College with a bachelor's in creative writing.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 2
Black or African American 1
Hispanic or Latino 5
White 12
International Students 1
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

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 ME, the home state for Colby College.

Occupation Jobs in ME Average Salary in ME
Professors 420 $57,880
English Language and Literature Professors 390 $68,840
Editors 360 $50,650
Writers and Authors 90 $61,090

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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