Creative Writing at Emory 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 Emory University stacks up to those at other schools.

Emory is located in Atlanta, Georgia and has a total student population of 13,997.

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.

Emory Creative Writing Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing

Emory Creative Writing Rankings

The creative writing major at Emory 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 Emory

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

Emory Creative Writing Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 33% of creative writing bachelor's degrees went to men and 67% 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 Emory since its program graduates 4% more men than average.

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 Emory University with a bachelor's in creative writing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	14
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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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 GA, the home state for Emory University.

Occupation	Jobs in GA	Average Salary in GA
Editors	2,190	$61,330
English Language and Literature Professors	1,160	$71,190
Writers and Authors	960	$63,260

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 Mpspqr under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.