2025 Best Creative Writing Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
3Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
99Bachelor's Degrees
Creative Writing is of the hottest bachelor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #106 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for creative writing students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 99 bachelor's degrees in creative writing to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Creative Writing School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The creative writing bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality creative writing program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on creative writing students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other creative writing students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
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 schools for creative writing students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Creative Writing Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Creative Writing in the Rocky Mountains Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in creative writing.
Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Creative Writing
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).