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Creative Writing at Columbia University in the City of New York

Creative Writing at Columbia University in the City of New York

If you are interested in studying creative writing, you may want to check out the program at Columbia University in the City of New York. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Columbia is located in New York, New York and approximately 30,135 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.

Columbia Creative Writing Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing
  • Master’s Degree in Creative Writing

Columbia Creative Writing Rankings

Creative Writing Student Demographics at Columbia

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the creative writing majors at Columbia University in the City of New York.

Columbia Creative Writing Master’s Program

72% Women
29% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 28% of creative writing master's degrees went to men and 72% went to women.

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Of the students who received a creative writing master's degree from Columbia, 55% were white. This is below average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the creative writing master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 29% of degree recipients. That is 2% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Columbia University in the City of New York with a master's in creative writing.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 19
Black or African American 5
Hispanic or Latino 9
White 73
International Students 20
Other Races/Ethnicities 7

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 NY, the home state for Columbia University in the City of New York.

Occupation Jobs in NY Average Salary in NY
Editors 19,140 $83,070
English Language and Literature Professors 7,700 $92,170
Writers and Authors 7,410 $86,380
Professors 6,440 $112,000

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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