Writing Studies at Goucher College

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

Goucher is located in Baltimore, Maryland and has a total student population of 2,015.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Writing Studies section at the bottom of this page.

Goucher Writing Studies Degrees Available

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

Goucher Writing Studies Rankings

The writing major at Goucher is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Writing Studies. 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.

Writing Student Demographics at Goucher

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the writing majors at Goucher College.

Goucher Writing Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 31% of writing bachelor's degrees went to men and 69% went to women. The typical writing bachelor's degree program is made up of only 29% men. So male students are more repesented at Goucher since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

About 56% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in writing at Goucher are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	9
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Goucher Writing Studies Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of writing master's degrees went to men and 50% went to women.

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

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

Concentrations Within Writing Studies

If you plan to be a writing major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Goucher College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Rhetoric & Composition	11
General Writing	7

Related Majors

• General English Literature

Careers That Writing Grads May Go Into

A degree in 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 MD, the home state for Goucher College.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
Editors	2,280	$59,560
Technical Writers	2,000	$80,130
English Language and Literature Professors	1,180	$73,490
Writers and Authors	920	$75,430

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 Rob Coyle under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.