The main focus area for this major is Creative Writing. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Writing Studies is a major offered under the English language and literature program of study at Oregon State University. Here, you’ll find out more about the major master’s degree program in writing, including such details as the number of graduates, ethnicity of students, related majors and concentrations, and more.
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Out-of-state part-time graduates at Oregon State paid an average of $967 per credit hour in 2019-2020. The average for in-state students was $492 per credit hour. The average full-time tuition and fees for graduate students are shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $13,257 | $26,109 |
Fees | $2,012 | $2,012 |
The median early career salary of writing students who receive their master’s degree from Oregon State is $35,060 per year. That is about the same as the national average of $34,720.
Online degrees for the Oregon State writing master’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Oregon State Online Learning page.
About 71.4% of the students who received their MA in writing in 2019-2020 were women. This is higher than the nationwide number of 67.9%.
Of those graduates who received a master’s degree in writing at Oregon State in 2019-2020, 23.8% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is about the same as the nationwide number of 25%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 0 |
Black or African American | 1 |
Hispanic or Latino | 3 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 16 |
International Students | 0 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 1 |
Writing Studies students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Creative Writing | 21 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to writing studies.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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General English Literature | 10 |
*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.