2024 Best Creative Writing Master's Degree Schools in Oregon
4Colleges in Oregon
63Master's Degrees
Creative Writing is of the hottest master's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #63 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Creative Writing Master's Degree Schools in Oregon ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 63 master's degrees in creative writing during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Creative Writing School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of creative writing for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to creative writing students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of creative writing students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized creative writing related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for creative writing students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Creative Writing Master's Degree Schools in Oregon ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Creative Writing in Oregon
Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for creative writing students seeking a a master's degree.
Top Oregon Schools for a Master's in Creative Writing
Harness your passion for storytelling with SNHU's Mountainview Low-Residency MFA in Fiction and Nonfiction. In this small, two-year creative writing program, students work one-on-one with our distinguished faculty remotely for most of the semester but convene for weeklong intensive residencies in June and January. At residencies, students critique each other's work face-to-face, meet with major authors, agents and editors and learn how to teach at the college level.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).