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

Pepperdine is located in Malibu, California and approximately 9,554 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.

Pepperdine Creative Writing Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing

Pepperdine Creative Writing Rankings

The creative writing major at Pepperdine 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 Pepperdine

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

Pepperdine Creative Writing Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 43% of creative writing bachelor's degrees went to men and 57% 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 Pepperdine since its program graduates 14% more men than average.

About 71% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in creative writing at Pepperdine 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 Pepperdine 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	5
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• Other Rhetoric & Composition/Writing Studies

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 CA, the home state for Pepperdine University.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Editors	11,060	$78,150
Writers and Authors	7,910	$96,910
English Language and Literature Professors	6,470	$114,110

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 Infratec~commonswiki under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.