Creative Writing at DePauw University

35% Racial-Ethnic Minorities* (Bachelor's)

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

DePauw is located in Greencastle, Indiana and approximately 1,752 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.

DePauw Creative Writing Degrees Available

Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing

DePauw Creative Writing Rankings

The creative writing major at DePauw 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 DePauw

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

DePauw Creative Writing Bachelor’s Program

70% Women

35% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 30% of creative writing bachelor's degrees went to men and 70% 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 DePauw since its program graduates 1% more men than average.

About 60% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in creative writing at DePauw are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 8% 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 DePauw University with a bachelor's in creative writing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	12
International Students	1
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 IN, the home state for DePauw University.

Occupation	Jobs in IN	Average Salary in IN
Editors	1,110	$51,800
Writers and Authors	420	$61,920

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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