Creative Writing at Pacific University

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

Pacific is located in Forest Grove, Oregon and has a total student population of 3,808.

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.

Pacific Creative Writing Degrees Available

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

Pacific Creative Writing Rankings

The creative writing major at Pacific 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 Pacific

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

Pacific Creative Writing Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of creative writing bachelor's degrees went to men and 50% 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 Pacific since its program graduates 21% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 23% 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 Pacific University with a bachelor's in creative writing.

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

Pacific Creative Writing Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 21% of creative writing master's degrees went to men and 79% went to women.

Of the students who received a creative writing master's degree from Pacific, 72% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	21
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Related Majors

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 OR, the home state for Pacific University.

Occupation	Jobs in OR	Average Salary in OR
Editors	1,080	$55,610
English Language and Literature Professors	820	$76,450
Writers and Authors	700	$69,050

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 M.O. Stevens under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.