2025 Best Creative Writing Schools in Nevada

Creative Writing is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #120 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Creative Writing Schools in Nevada ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 56 degrees in creative writing annually.

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Pick Your Creative Writing Degree Level

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Creative Writing Schools in Nevada list to help you make the college decision. You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.

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Best Schools for Creative Writing in Nevada

If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the creative writing degrees they offer, see the list below.

Top Nevada Schools in Creative Writing

1

University of Nevada - Reno
Reno, NV

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

University of Nevada - Reno is a good decision for students pursuing a degree in creative writing. UNR is a very large public university located in the city of Reno.More information about a degree in creative writing from University of Nevada - Reno

2

University of Nevada - Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

25.9% Growth in Graduates

Any student who is interested in creative writing has to take a look at University of Nevada - Las Vegas. UNLV is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of Las Vegas.More information about a degree in creative writing from University of Nevada - Las Vegas

Best Creative Writing Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Creative Writing Colleges in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
California	999	481
Washington	831	334
Oregon	587	98
Alaska	167	15

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Creative Writing Related Rankings by Major

Creative Writing is one of 4 different types of Writing Studies programs to choose from.

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).
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More about our data sources and methodologies.