2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Creative Writing Major in Arkansas

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Creative Writing Major in Arkansas” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Creative Writing is the 120th most popular major in the country with 6,817 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Arkansas, there were 45 creative writing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 29 creative writing graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,130 and $24,615 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Creative Writing Major in Arkansas” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in creative writing. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their creative writing program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Creative Writing Major in Arkansas

The colleges and universities below are the best for arkansas bachelor’s degree creative writing students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Creative Writing in Arkansas

1

University of Central Arkansas
Conway, Arkansas

#7 overall quality in Arkansas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Creative Writing Major in Arkansas that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Arkansas landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Conway, Arkansas, and it awarded 20 bachelors’s creative writing degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full UCA Creative Writing Report

2

Arkansas Tech University
Russellville, Arkansas

#12 overall quality in Arkansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arkansas Tech University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Creative Writing Major in Arkansas list. ATU is a medium-sized public school situated in Russellville, Arkansas. It awarded 9 bachelors’s creative writing degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Creative Writing at ATU

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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