Graduate English Degrees

Whatever your goal — pursuing a doctorate, teaching English abroad, or publishing your creative work — our distinguished faculty are dedicated to helping you achieve it. There are typically 40-50 graduate students in English enrolled each semester, and students and faculty work together closely.

The Department of English offers the following graduate programs:

M.F.A. in Creative Writing

Our Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing is for those who plan a career as a professional writer or teacher of writing.

M.A. in English

Our Master of Arts in English allows a student to focus on such areas as literature, literary criticism and theory, and rhetoric and composition.