2019 Most Affordable Master's in English Online
For less than $16,000 per year, these 25 schools all offer affordable online master's in English programs. Eastern New Mexico University-Main Campus is ranked in the top spot with an annual tuition of only $6,364 per year. Students enrolled in ENMU's Master of Arts in English can choose from classes such as Literary Theory and Pedagogy of College Writing. In second place with a tuition rate of $6,825 per year, Gardner Webb University offers an MA in English with concentrations in English Education Studies, Literature Studies, and Writing Studies.
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- Annual Tuition: $6,364
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: HLC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 1,419
- Example Classes:
American Authors/Genres/Themes; Bibliography and Methods; Inventing Realities, Fabricating Truths; Literary Theory; Methods of Teaching Secondary English; Pedagogy of College Writing
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $6,825
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 1,553
- Example Classes:
African-American Literature; Literary Theory; Mythology; Selected British Writers (non-Shakespearean) - Renaissance Period; Seminar in English Studies; Teaching of Writing
- Annual Tuition: $6,993
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: HLC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 1,973
- Example Classes:
American Literary History and Criticism; Bibliography and Research; Desktop Publishing; Editing Technical Publications; Film Theory and Criticism; International Technical Communication
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $7,125
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 987
- Example Classes:
Advanced Studies in Language and Gender; Digital Culture: Theory and Practice; Ethnographic and Documentary Film Making; Folklore and Film; Literature of the Southern Renaissance; Young Adult Fiction
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $8,500
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 1,260
- Example Classes:
American Poetry; American Prose; Bibliography; English Literature Before 1800; Fiction Writing Seminar; Practicum in College Composition
Online Master's Degrees (3)
- Annual Tuition: $8,835
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 1,289
- Example Classes:
American Romanticism and Realism; Eighteenth-Century Prose and Poetry; Modern American Literature; Teaching English as a Second Language; The Middle Ages; Young Adult Literature
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $8,880
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: HLC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 18,407
- Example Classes:
Contemporary Critical Theories; Critical Reading and Writing About Literature; Elements of English Language and Cultures; Introduction to Creative Writing; Introduction to Writing, Rhetorics and Literacies; Pedagogy
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $9,306
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: HLC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 1,732
- Example Classes:
Creative Nonfiction; Descriptive Linguistics; Fiction Writing; Language and Composition in the Secondary School; Principles of Literary Criticism; Writing Tutorial
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $9,572
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 8,365
- Example Classes:
Continental European Fiction Since 1900; Harlem, Haiti, and Havana; Hypertext Theory and Design; Literature of the South; Methods of Bibliography and Research; Milton and His Age
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $9,660
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 1,609
- Example Classes:
Historical Principles in Composition Theory; Life-Writing; Project Design and Usability; Special Topics in Rhetoric and Composition; Teaching Writing in Schools; Writing Proposals and Grants
Online Master's Degrees (6)
- Annual Tuition: $9,690
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 994
- Example Classes:
Chaucer; Contemporary Literature; Milton; Old English Literature; Restoration and Eighteenth Century British Literature; Romantic Period
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $9,890
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: WASC ACCJC and WASC WSCUC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 8,873
- Example Classes:
Composition Pedagogy; Film History: The Silents; History of Rhetoric; Literary Period or Movement I; Major Author Seminar I; Seminar in Poetry
Online Master's Degrees (3)
- Annual Tuition: $10,000
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: HLC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 997
- Example Classes:
Creative Writing: Performance Writing; Ethnic Voices, Poetry; Poetics of Western Drama; Studies in Genre Fiction; Teaching College English; The Culture and Literature of Modernity
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $11,260
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 1,391
- Example Classes:
American Poetry; Occupational Technical Writing; Shakespeare Seminar; Specification, Bid, Grant, and Proposal Writing; Teaching College Composition
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $11,677
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 5,196
- Example Classes:
History and Theory of Rhetoric; Learning Through Composing; Literary Genres; Multicultural Literature and Languages; Problems in Adolescent Literature; Structure of the English Language
Online Master's Degrees (2)
- Annual Tuition: $11,700
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: HLC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 2,578
- Example Classes:
Authors’ Houses: Nodes and Networks; Citizen Hollywood or Theory at the Movies; Sociologies of Print, Histories of Reading; Texts and Textile: Reading Material Culture; The Fiction of Reform
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $12,168
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 6,588
- Example Classes:
Critical Methods; History and Theories of College Composition; History of the English Language; Old or Middle English; Studies in Linguistics; Writing for Publication
Online Master's Degrees (6)
- Annual Tuition: $12,320
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: NWCCU
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 316
- Example Classes:
American Literature II: Modernism to the Present; J.R.R. Tolkien; Modern Science Fiction; Native American Literature; Shakespeare In the World; World Literature II: 1650's - Present
Online Master's Degrees (1)
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Mercy College
- Annual Tuition: $13,080
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: MSCHE
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 2,942
- Example Classes:
American Gothic; History of Poetic Forms; Humanism in Renaissance Texts; Literature of the Left Bank, Paris; Narrative Strategies in the Novel; Oral Performance of Literature
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $13,374
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 2,803
- Example Classes:
History of the English Language; History, Theory and Practice of Writing Centers; Literary Theory and Criticism; Practicum in Composition Instruction; Studies in Composition; Studies in Technical and Scientific Writing
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $13,464
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: HLC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 296
- Example Classes:
Advanced Research Methods; Disciplinary Foundations; Elements of Scholarship; Research Methods
Online Master's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $14,428
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: HLC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 2,792
- Example Classes:
Ethics in Professional/Technical Writing; Professional/Technical Editing; Seminar in English Studies; Teaching of Literature; Teaching of Writing; Theory and Methods of Literary Criticism
Online Master's Degrees (2)
- Annual Tuition: $14,914
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 5,993
- Example Classes:
American Literature Before 1865; British Literature Before 1800; Literary Theory; Literature and the Environment; Southern Regional Literature
- Annual Tuition: $15,048
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: NECHE
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 19,027
- Example Classes:
American Modernism; Graduate Seminar in Global Literature; Graduate Studies in Gender and Text; Graduate Studies in Multi-Ethnic Literature; Graduate Studies in Post-Colonial Encounters; Nonfiction Writing Workshop
Online Master's Degrees (7)
- Annual Tuition: $15,342
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 1,586
- Example Classes:
Digital Humanities; Grant and Proposal Writing; Psycholinguistics; Studies in Modern Fiction; Studies in Rhetoric; Studies in the English Language
Online Master's Degrees (2)
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