Creative Writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

67% Racial-Ethnic Minorities* (Bachelor's)

If you are interested in studying creative writing, you may want to check out the program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

MIT is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and approximately 11,254 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.

MIT Creative Writing Degrees Available

Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing

MIT Creative Writing Rankings

The creative writing major at MIT 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 MIT

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the creative writing majors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

MIT Creative Writing Bachelor’s Program

33% Women

67% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 67% of creative writing bachelor's degrees went to men and 33% 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 MIT since its program graduates 38% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 39% 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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor's in creative writing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	1
International Students	0
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 MA, the home state for Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Editors	3,160	$89,280
English Language and Literature Professors	2,780	$80,450
Writers and Authors	1,490	$70,000

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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