2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Creative Writing for a Master’s
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Ranked Colleges
138
Degrees Awarded
$33,100
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Creative Writing for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 6,817 people earned their degree in creative writing, making the major the 120th most popular in the United States.
Across Pennsylvania, there were 444 creative writing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Creative Writing for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in creative writing. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality creative writing programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the creative writing program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Creative Writing for a Master’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for pennsylvania master’s degree vets studying creative writing.
Top 2 Best Creative Writing Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Pennsylvania
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Temple University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Creative Writing for a Master’s list. Temple is a large school located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that handed out 8 masters’s creative writing degrees in 2020-2021.
Temple also made our “Best Creative Writing Master’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list, coming in at #1.Of the 37,236 students enrolled at Temple University, 830 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 510 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $13,479. During this same period, 9 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.
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Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Creative Writing for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Chatham University landed the #2 spot on the list. Chatham University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It awarded 12 masters’s creative writing degrees in 2020-2021.
Chatham also took the #2 spot in our “Best Creative Writing Master’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 54 of the 2,353 students enrolled at Chatham were GI Bill® students, of which 27 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $5,888. On top of their other funding sources, 10 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Chatham]](/colleges/chatham-university/student-life/veterans/)
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Notes and References
References
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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