Creative Writing at Eastern Michigan 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 Eastern Michigan University stacks up to those at other schools.

Eastern Michigan is located in Ypsilanti, Michigan and approximately 16,294 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.

Eastern Michigan Creative Writing Degrees Available

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

Eastern Michigan Creative Writing Rankings

The creative writing major at Eastern Michigan 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 Eastern Michigan

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

Eastern Michigan Creative Writing Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 40% of creative writing bachelor's degrees went to men and 60% 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 Eastern Michigan since its program graduates 11% more men than average.

About 80% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in creative writing at Eastern Michigan are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	4
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Eastern Michigan Creative Writing Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 0% of creative writing master's degrees went to men and 100% went to women.

In the creative writing master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 50% of degree recipients. That is 23% better than the national average.*

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

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

Related Majors

• Professional, Technical, Business, & Scientific Writing
• General Writing

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 MI, the home state for Eastern Michigan University.

Occupation	Jobs in MI	Average Salary in MI
English Language and Literature Professors	2,000	$76,340
Editors	1,670	$58,150
Writers and Authors	1,120	$60,850

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 Dwight Burdette under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.