Writing Studies at Roanoke College

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

Roanoke is located in Salem, Virginia and has a total student population of 1,920. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 17 students received a bachelor's degree in writing from Roanoke.

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.

Roanoke Writing Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Writing

Roanoke Writing Studies Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the writing progam at Roanoke compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The writing major at Roanoke 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Writing Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	114
Best Value Writing Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	162
Most Popular Writing Studies Schools	183
Best Writing Studies Schools	189
Best Value Writing Studies Schools	288

How Much Do Writing Graduates from Roanoke Make?

The median salary of writing students who receive their bachelor's degree at Roanoke is $20,889. This is less than $27,021, which is the national average of all writing majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Writing Student Demographics at Roanoke

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

Roanoke Writing Studies Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 17 writing majors earned their bachelor's degree from Roanoke. Of these graduates, 35% were men and 65% were women. The typical writing bachelor's degree program is made up of only 31% men. So male students are more repesented at Roanoke since its program graduates 5% more men than average.

About 59% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in writing at Roanoke are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 6% more racial-ethnic minorities in its writing bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	10
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Roanoke also has a doctoral program available in writing. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

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 VA, the home state for Roanoke College.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
Editors	3,450	$72,660
Technical Writers	2,840	$85,450
English Language and Literature Professors	2,320	$61,690
Writers and Authors	1,220	$68,600

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 roanokecollege under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.