Creative Writing at Columbia University in the City of New York

If you plan to study creative writing, take a look at what Columbia University in the City of New York has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Columbia is located in New York, New York and has a total student population of 30,135.

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.

Columbia Creative Writing Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing
• Master’s Degree in Creative Writing

Columbia Creative Writing Rankings

The creative writing major at Columbia 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 Columbia

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the creative writing majors at Columbia University in the City of New York.

Columbia Creative Writing Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 36% of creative writing bachelor's degrees went to men and 64% 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 Columbia since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 27% 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 Columbia University in the City of New York with a bachelor's in creative writing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	14
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

Columbia Creative Writing Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 28% of creative writing master's degrees went to men and 72% went to women.

Of the students who received a creative writing master's degree from Columbia, 55% were white. This is below average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the creative writing master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 29% of degree recipients. That is 2% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Columbia University in the City of New York with a master's in creative writing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	19
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	9
White	73
International Students	20
Other Races/Ethnicities	7

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 NY, the home state for Columbia University in the City of New York.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Editors	19,140	$83,070
English Language and Literature Professors	7,700	$92,170
Writers and Authors	7,410	$86,380
Professors	6,440	$112,000

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 Nandaro under License

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