2018 Most Affordable Online Colleges for a Master's in Creative Writing
These 18 online colleges and universities offer the most affordable online master's in creative writing programs. In first place, Tiffin University offers a Master of Humanities in Creative Writing at a cheap annual tuition rate of $7,500. Southern New Hampshire University Online, ranked ninth, offers multiple program options including an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in English and Creative Writing with concentrations in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and screenwriting. Tuition for SNHU's online creative writing programs is $12,540 per year.
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| Rank | College | Annual Tuition |
|---|---|---|
| #1 Tiffin University | Annual Tuition $7,500 | |
| #2 University of Louisiana-Monroe | Annual Tuition $8,500 | |
| #3 Regent University Online | Annual Tuition $9,750 | |
| #4 University of Arkansas at Monticello | Annual Tuition $10,800 | |
| #5 Central Washington University | Annual Tuition $10,969 | |
| #6 Lindenwood University | Annual Tuition $11,520 | |
| #7 National University | Annual Tuition $12,064 | |
| #8 Fairleigh Dickinson University-Metropolitan Campus | Annual Tuition $12,210 | |
| #9 Southern New Hampshire University Online | Annual Tuition $12,540 | |
| #10 University of Houston-Victoria | Annual Tuition $13,461 | |
| #11 Bay Path University | Annual Tuition $14,600 | |
| #12 (tie) Arcadia University | Annual Tuition $15,000 | |
| #12 (tie) University of Nebraska at Omaha | Annual Tuition $15,000 | |
| #14 University of Denver | Annual Tuition $15,840 | |
| #15 Albertus Magnus College | Annual Tuition $19,764 | |
| #16 Seton Hill University | Annual Tuition $19,818 | |
| #17 Chatham University | Annual Tuition $20,118 | |
| #18 Goucher College | Annual Tuition $20,825 |
- Annual Tuition: $7,500
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: NCA 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: $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: $9,750
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 4,809
- Example Classes:
Aesthetics for the Contemporary Communicator; Playwriting; Redemptive Cinema; Story Structure for Stage & Screen; Writing for Television; Writing the Short Film
Online Master's Degrees (2)
- Annual Tuition: $10,800
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: NCA 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: $10,969
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: NWCCU
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 852
- Example Classes:
Advanced Creative Nonfiction Writing; Advanced Poetry Writing; Publishing Strategies and Practice for Writers; Special Topics: Narratology; Special Topics: Writing with Sound
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $11,520
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: NCA HLC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 3,201
- Example Classes:
Classic Foundational Literature: Fiction; Contemporary Foundational Literature: Creative Nonfiction; Focused Fiction Workshop; Genre Fiction as Literature; Poetry Craft Foundations; The Literary Novel
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $12,064
- 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: $12,210
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: MSCHE
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 2,776
- Example Classes:
Contemporary World Literature; Dramatic/Cinematic Writing; Ethnic-American Literature; Modern Poetry; Non-Linear Narrative; Shakespeare
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $12,540
- 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: $13,461
- 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: $15,000
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: NCA HLC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 3,091
- Example Classes:
Fiction Seminar; Nonfiction Seminar; Playwriting Seminar; Poetry Seminar
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $15,840
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: NCA 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: $19,764
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: NEASC CIHE
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 335
- Example Classes:
Seminar in Fiction I and II; Seminar in Non-fiction I and II; Seminar in Poetry I and II; The Creative Process; The Literary Marketplace; Writing Portfolio
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $19,818
- 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)
- 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)
#18
Goucher College
- Annual Tuition: $20,825
- 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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