2024 Best Creative Writing Master's Degree Schools in Connecticut
2Colleges in Connecticut
34Master's Degrees
Ranked #63 in popularity, creative writing is one of the most sought-after master's degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Creative Writing Master's Degree Schools in Connecticut ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 34 master's degrees in creative writing to qualified students.
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 complete 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.
The creative writing school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Creative Writing Master's Degree Schools in Connecticut.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Creative Writing in Connecticut
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in creative writing.
Top Connecticut 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.
Creative Writing is one of 4 different types of Writing Studies programs to choose from.
Notes and References
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).