Professional, Technical, Business, & Scientific Writing at Ferris State University

Every professional, technical, business, & scientific writing school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the professional, technical, business, and scientific writing program at Ferris State University stacks up to those at other schools.

Ferris is located in Big Rapids, Michigan and approximately 11,165 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Professional, Technical, Business, & Scientific Writing section at the bottom of this page.

Ferris Professional, Technical, Business, & Scientific Writing Degrees Available

• Basic Certificate in Professional, Technical, Business, and Scientific Writing (Less Than 1 Year)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Professional, Technical, Business, and Scientific Writing

Ferris Professional, Technical, Business, & Scientific Writing Rankings

The professional, technical, business, and scientific writing major at Ferris is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Professional, Technical, Business, & Scientific 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.

Professional, Technical, Business, and Scientific Writing Student Demographics at Ferris

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the professional, technical, business, and scientific writing majors at Ferris State University.

Ferris Professional, Technical, Business, & Scientific Writing Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 43% of professional, technical, business, and scientific writing bachelor's degrees went to men and 57% went to women. The typical professional, technical, business, and scientific writing bachelor's degree program is made up of only 25% men. So male students are more repesented at Ferris since its program graduates 18% more men than average.

About 71% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in professional, technical, business, and scientific writing at Ferris 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 Ferris State University with a bachelor's in professional, technical, business, and scientific writing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	5
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• General Writing
• Rhetoric & Composition

Careers That Professional, Technical, Business, and Scientific Writing Grads May Go Into

A degree in professional, technical, business, and scientific 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 Ferris State University.

Occupation	Jobs in MI	Average Salary in MI
English Language and Literature Professors	2,000	$76,340
Editors	1,670	$58,150
Technical Writers	1,450	$68,580
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 Michael Barera under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.