Creative Writing at The University of Texas at El Paso

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 The University of Texas at El Paso stacks up to those at other schools.

UTEP is located in El Paso, Texas and approximately 24,879 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.

UTEP Creative Writing Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at UTEP

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

UTEP does offer online education options in creative writing for the following degree levels for those interested in distance learning:

• Master’s Degree

UTEP Creative Writing Rankings

The creative writing major at UTEP 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 UTEP

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the creative writing majors at The University of Texas at El Paso.

UTEP Creative Writing Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 35% of creative writing bachelor's degrees went to men and 65% 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 UTEP since its program graduates 6% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 68% 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 The University of Texas at El Paso with a bachelor's in creative writing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	21
White	1
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

UTEP Creative Writing Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 28% of creative writing master's degrees went to men and 72% went to women.

In the creative writing master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 38% of degree recipients. That is 10% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	9
White	14
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Rhetoric & Composition

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 TX, the home state for The University of Texas at El Paso.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Editors	5,490	$72,300
English Language and Literature Professors	5,380	$75,720
Professors	3,510	$61,660
Writers and Authors	2,110	$56,680

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 Adrian Garcia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.