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2012 MFA Rankings: Creative Writing PhD Programs
{NB: As there are only 31 creative writing doctoral programs in the United States, and as the largest reported annual applicant pool for any one of these is 200--with the second-largest being under 170--the total number of applicants to such programs annually is undoubtedly in the hundreds rather than the thousands. For this reason, what might seem like a small polling "N" (were it to be used for Master of Fine Arts programs) is actually not insignificant, and would represent a substantial percentage of each year's creative writing doctoral program applicant cohort.}
2012 Top 15 Creative Writing PhD Programs
(with votes in parentheses)
1. University of Denver (64)
2. Florida State University (59)
3. Ohio University (52)
4t. University of Houston (48)
4t. University of Utah (48)
6t. University of Illinois at Chicago (44)
6t. University of Southern California (44)
8t. University of Cincinnati (40)
8t. University of Missouri (40)
10. University of Nebraska at Lincoln (34)
11. University of Georgia (32)
12t. Texas Tech University (29)
12t. Western Michigan University (29)
14. University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee (25)
15t. Georgia State University (22)
15t. University of Tennessee (22)
Programs Bubbling Under: #17 State University of New York at Albany; #18t Binghamton University; #18t University of Louisiana at Lafayette; #20 University of Nevada at Las Vegas.
[N = 145; from polling between 4.16.07 and 4.15.11].
Monday, January 17, 2011
2011 MFA Rankings: Creative Writing PhD Programs
{NB: As there are only 31 creative writing doctoral programs in the United States, and as the largest reported annual applicant pool for any one of these is 200--with the second-largest being under 170--the total number of applicants to such programs annually is undoubtedly in the hundreds rather than the thousands. For this reason, what might seem like a small polling "N" (were it to be used for Master of Fine Arts programs) is actually not insignificant. Still, the "N" remains below that point at which one could say with confidence that this ranking--as a whole--carries substantial statistical validity. Thus slight differences in rankings, as between two programs, may not actually be statistically significant. The data below was compiled from the Poets & Writers website over a three-year period}.
2011 Top 25 Creative Writing PhD Programs
(with votes in parentheses)
1. University of Denver (27)
2. Florida State University (23)
3. University of Illinois at Chicago (21)
4. Ohio University (20)
5. University of Houston (19)
6. University of Cincinnati (17)
7. University of Utah (15)
8t. Texas Tech University (14)
8t. University of Georgia (14)
8t. University of Missouri (14)
11t. University of Southern California (13)
11t. University of Tennessee (13)
13. University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee (12)
14. University of Nebraska at Lincoln (11)
15. Western Michigan University (10)
16. Georgia State University (8)
17. Binghamton University (7)
18. University of Wisconsin at Madison (6) *
19t. University of Kansas (4)
19t. University of Nevada at Las Vegas (4)
19t. University of North Texas (4)
22t. State University of New York at Albany (3)
22t. University of Southern Mississippi (3)
24t. Illinois State University (2)
24t. University of Hawaii (2)
Programs Bubbling Under (26t): Oklahoma State University (1); Texas A&M University (1); University of Louisiana at Lafayette (1).
Other Programs (29t):
University of North Dakota (0)
University of South Dakota (0)
University of Texas at Dallas (0)
[N = 49; through 4.15.10].
As the rankings above only consider programs with fiction or poetry tracks among their offerings, Southern Illinois University's doctoral program in playwriting is not listed here. Nor are the discontinued programs at University of Iowa or University of Connecticut.
* This program is a traditional (critical dissertation) English Literature doctorate with an elective Creative Writing Internal Minor. Students selecting this Minor may satisfy between 20% and 25% of their total course credit requirements through MFA workshops at the University of Wisconsin-Madison MFA program; all told, a doctoral student at University of Wisconsin-Madison with an Internal Minor in Creative Writing will take as many MFA workshops as would a two-year MFA student at the University. University of Wisconsin-Madison therefore appears, on occasion, on the application lists of creative writing Ph.D. applicants, and for this reason appears in this ranking as well.
2012 MFA Rankings: Selectivity (Doctoral)
2012 Top 10 Most Selective Doctoral Programs
1. University of Southern California (2.00%) [4/200]
2. University of Nevada at Las Vegas (2.11%) [2/95]
3. University of Illinois at Chicago (2.59%) [7/270] 2009
4. Florida State University (3.78%) [17/450] 2011
5. State University of New York at Albany (3.85%) [5/130] 2011
6. University of Houston (5.14%) [18/350] 2011
7. University of Denver (6.00%) [12/200] 2011
8. University of Wisconsin-Madison (6.57%) [23/350] 2010 **
9. Texas Tech University (8.00%) [4/50] 2011
10. University of Nebraska at Lincoln (10.42%) [5/48] fiction only
Bubbling Under: #11 University of Cincinnati (11.11%) [3/27] fiction only; #12 University of Kansas (12.31%) [8/65] 2009.
* = Includes data for both the MFA and Ph.D. programs in creative writing at this University.
** = Includes data for Literary Studies program only (the Literary Studies program at University of Wisconsin-Madison offers an Internal Minor in Creative Writing).
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