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Creative Writing at University of Chicago

Creative Writing at University of Chicago

If you plan to study creative writing, take a look at what University of Chicago has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UChicago is located in Chicago, Illinois and approximately 17,834 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.

UChicago Creative Writing Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing

UChicago Creative Writing Rankings

The creative writing major at UChicago 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 UChicago

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

UChicago Creative Writing Bachelor’s Program

65% Women
58% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
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 UChicago since its program graduates 6% more men than average.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 31% 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 University of Chicago with a bachelor's in creative writing.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 4
Black or African American 3
Hispanic or Latino 10
White 11
International Students 1
Other Races/Ethnicities 2

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 IL, the home state for University of Chicago.

Occupation Jobs in IL Average Salary in IL
Editors 3,830 $62,590
English Language and Literature Professors 3,120 $65,860
Professors 3,040 $66,970
Writers and Authors 1,880 $68,710

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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