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Creative Writing

BABachelor of Arts in Creative WritingFunding not verified

Overview

A Bachelor of Arts major at West Lafayette in which students take five writing courses in poetry or fiction and five English literature courses. The admissions page also lists a Degree in 3 accelerated path in the College of Liberal Arts.

Official program name
Creative Writing
Awarded degree
Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing
Source: cla.purdue.edu · verified October 9, 2026
School
Source: cla.purdue.edu · verified October 9, 2026
Location
West Lafayette, IN
Delivery / residency
Campus-basedClasses and workshops meet in person on campus throughout the program.
Source: admissions.purdue.edu · verified October 9, 2026
Study intensity
Not verified
Duration
Not verified
Required credits
Not verified
Teaching language
English (not separately stated)
Why this degree is listed

Creative Writing is listed as its own major (Bachelor of Arts) alongside, not within, English Literature and Professional Writing.

Source: cla.purdue.edu · verified October 9, 2026

We list dedicated creative writing degrees only. Eligibility rules

Curriculum, genres and faculty

Genres

FictionCreative NonfictionPoetry

Source: admissions.purdue.edu · verified October 9, 2026

Workshops

Literature courses

Other

Faculty listed by the program

  • Casey Gray
  • Brian Leung
  • Donald Platt
  • Sharon Solwitz

As listed on the program's official page on October 9, 2026. Listing does not mean a faculty member is teaching or supervising new students in a given year.

Source: cla.purdue.edu · verified October 9, 2026

Admissions

Required, optional, waived and not-required items are shown exactly as the school states them. Anything not listed is not verified — not “not required”.
Minimum GPA
RequiredTransfer applicants: minimum 2.5 GPA
Source: admissions.purdue.edu · verified October 9, 2026

Writing portfolio

Portfolio requirements: not verified. We publish this only when the school states it on an official page.

Tests

GRE and English-language test policy: not verified. We publish this only when the school states it on an official page.

We do not publish acceptance rates or estimate competitiveness: programs rarely publish comparable figures.

Deadlines

Dates are shown with the admissions cycle the school printed. A past date is marked passed and is never carried into a new cycle.

Application deadlines: not verified. We publish this only when the school states it on an official page.

Tuition and fees

Each amount keeps its applicant category, academic year and basis. Per-credit, per-year and whole-program figures are not comparable with each other.

Tuition: not verified. We publish this only when the school states it on an official page.

Funding

We have not verified an official funding policy for this program. That does not mean funding is unavailable. “Fully funded” never means every personal expense is covered. How we classify funding

Funding not verified

Funding policy: not verified. We publish this only when the school states it on an official page.

Sources and verification

Every fact on this page comes from the official pages below. Last verified October 9, 2026.
  1. admissions.purdue.edu/majors/creative-writing/ — Official program page, verified October 9, 2026
  2. cla.purdue.edu/academic/english/undergraduate/majors/creativewriting.html — Official program page, verified October 9, 2026

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