Creative Writing at Queens College
If you plan to study creative writing, take a look at what Queens College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.QC is located in Queens, New York and approximately 19,700 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.
QC Creative Writing Degrees Available
- Master’s Degree in Creative Writing
QC Creative Writing Rankings
Creative Writing Student Demographics at QC
Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the creative writing majors at Queens College.
QC Creative Writing Master’s Program
In the creative writing master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 50% of degree recipients. That is 23% better than the national average.*
The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Queens College with a master's in creative writing.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
---|---|
Asian | 2 |
Black or African American | 1 |
Hispanic or Latino | 0 |
White | 4 |
International Students | 0 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 1 |
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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.
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 Queens College.
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.