2019 Most Affordable Master's in Creative Writing Online
Listed here are the 13 online colleges and universities that offer the most inexpensive creative writing master's degrees in 2019. Ranked #1 is University of Louisiana-Monroe, where tuition is $8,500 per year. In second place is Tiffin University, with an annual tuition of $10,000. Students will find great variety in program options at #10-ranked University of Denver, which offers concentrations in Professional Creative Nonfiction, Drama, Fiction, and Poetry Writing for $16,464 per year.
You can read more about our ranked schools below or browse our 2019 rankings of the most affordable online master's programs. View our methodology or learn more about SR Education Group.
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| Rank | College | Annual Tuition |
|---|---|---|
| #1 University of Louisiana-Monroe | Annual Tuition $8,500 | |
| #2 Tiffin University | Annual Tuition $10,000 | |
| #3 University of Arkansas at Monticello | Annual Tuition $12,332 | |
| #4 National University | Annual Tuition $12,900 | |
| #5 University of Houston-Victoria | Annual Tuition $13,624 | |
| #6 Bay Path University | Annual Tuition $14,600 | |
| #7 Arcadia University | Annual Tuition $15,000 | |
| #8 Southern New Hampshire University Online | Annual Tuition $15,048 | |
| #9 Western New England University | Annual Tuition $15,216 | |
| #10 University of Denver | Annual Tuition $16,464 | |
| #11 Chatham University | Annual Tuition $20,118 | |
| #12 Seton Hill University | Annual Tuition $20,628 | |
| #13 Goucher College | Annual Tuition $21,675 |
- Annual Tuition: $8,500
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 1,260
- Example Classes:
Advanced Multicultural Literature; American Poetry; Creative Writing for Teachers; Special Topics: Forms and Theories of Creative Writing
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $10,000
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: HLC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 997
- Example Classes:
Aesthetics; Creativity and its Development; Ethnic Voices: Poetry; Poetics of Western Drama; Studies in Genre Fiction; Teaching College English
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $12,332
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: HLC and COE
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 255
- Example Classes:
First books of Poetry; Magazine Edit and Design; Memoirs of the Mind; Simple Art of Murder
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $12,900
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: WASC ACCJC and WASC WSCUC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 8,873
- Example Classes:
Basics of Screenwriting; Film as Art; Fundamentals of Linguistics; Interactive Storytelling; Modern Rhetoric; Nature Writing
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $13,624
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 1,136
- Example Classes:
American Literary History; British Literary History; Creative Nonfiction Writing; Digital Publishing; Literary Theory; Screenwriting
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $14,600
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: NEASC CIHE
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 1,332
- Example Classes:
Eat, Drink, and Get Paid; Health and Wellness Writing: Storytelling as a Healing Art; Immersion in Publishing; Learning to Teach; Travel Writing; Women's Spiritual Writing Through the Ages
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $15,000
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: MSCHE
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 1,312
- Example Classes:
Contemporary Fiction; Craft of Contemporary Poetry; Fiction Workshop; Poetry Workshop
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $15,048
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: NEASC CIHE
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 19,027
- Example Classes:
Advanced Creative Writing; Fiction and Film; Literary Theory; Screenwriting Fundamentals; Shakespeare; Story and Concept
- Annual Tuition: $15,216
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: NEASC CIHE
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 1,086
- Example Classes:
Individualized Curriculum
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $16,464
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: HLC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 5,860
- Example Classes:
From Romance to Realism; Literary Translation: Crossing Borders to Enrich Your Own Writing; Personal Performance Writing: From Page to Voicing for an Audience; Writing and Healing; Writing Improvisational Poetry in Organic Verse and Prose; Writing the Memoir
Online Master's Degrees (4)
- Master of Arts in Professional Creative Writing - Professional Creative Nonfiction Writing
- Master of Arts in Professional Creative Writing - Professional Dramatic Writing
- Master of Arts in Professional Creative Writing - Professional Fiction Writing
- Master of Arts in Professional Creative Writing - Professional Poetry Writing
- Annual Tuition: $20,118
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: MSCHE
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 1,108
- Example Classes:
Ecofeminist Literature; The Craft of Poetry; The Environmental Imagination; Writing About Food; Writing Creative Nonfiction: The Lyric & Formally Adventurous Essay; Writing for Children: Mystery & Suspense
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $20,628
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: MSCHE
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 349
- Example Classes:
Independent Writing Project; Readings in the Genre; Teaching Pop Fiction and Writing; Writing About Popular Fiction
Online Master's Degrees (1)
#13
Goucher College
- Annual Tuition: $21,675
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: MSCHE
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 699
- Example Classes:
Mentorship I-IV; Workshop I: Creative Writing; Workshop II: Manuscript: Beginning; Workshop III: Manuscript: Work in Progress; Workshop IV: Final Manuscript
Online Master's Degrees (1)
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