Creative Writing at San Francisco State 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 San Francisco State University stacks up to those at other schools.

SFSU is located in San Francisco, California and has a total student population of 27,349.

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.

SFSU Creative Writing Degrees Available

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

SFSU Creative Writing Rankings

The creative writing major at SFSU 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 SFSU

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

SFSU 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 SFSU since its program graduates 21% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 35% 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 San Francisco State University with a bachelor's in creative writing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	4
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

SFSU Creative Writing Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 52% of creative writing master's degrees went to men and 48% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 29% men graduate in creative writing each year. SFSU does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 23% more men than average.

Of the students who received a creative writing master's degree from SFSU, 52% were white. This is below average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the creative writing master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 39% of degree recipients. That is 12% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	12
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Related Majors

• Professional, Technical, Business, & Scientific Writing

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 San Francisco State 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 Briantrejo under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.