2025 Best Creative Writing Associate Degree Schools

If you plan on getting your associate degree in creative writing, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #354 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for creative writing students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 189 associate degrees in creative writing during the <nil> academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to creative writing students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of creative writing students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized creative writing related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for creative writing students working on their associate degree.

More Ways to Rank Creative Writing Schools

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Creative Writing Associate Degree Schools list, to help you choose the best school for you.

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Creative Writing in the United States

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in creative writing.

Top Schools for an Associate in Creative Writing

1

Austin Community College District
Austin, TX

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

13 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat Austin Community College District if you wish to pursue an associate degree in creative writing. Located in the city of Austin, Austin Community College District is a public college with a fairly large student population.More information about a associate in creative writing from Austin Community College District

2

Liberty University
Lynchburg, VA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

21 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat Liberty University if you want to pursue an associate degree in creative writing. Liberty University is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Lynchburg.More information about a associate in creative writing from Liberty University

Creative Writing by Region

View the Best Creative Writing Associate Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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Rankings in Majors Related to Creative Writing

One of 4 majors within the Writing Studies area of study, Creative Writing has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Creative Writing

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Rhetoric & Composition	45
Other Rhetoric & Composition/Writing Studies	31
General Writing	28
Professional, Technical, Business, & Scientific Writing	19

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to KOKUYO. More about our data sources and methodologies.