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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Department of English, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Creative Writing, BALAS

BABachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts & Sciences, Major in Creative WritingFunding not verified

Overview

A 36-hour major in CW and ENGL courses within a 120-hour bachelor's degree, built around a three-course workshop sequence in poetry or fiction, a craft essay course and literature coursework.

Official program name
Creative Writing, BALAS
Awarded degree
Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts & Sciences, Major in Creative Writing
Source: catalog.illinois.edu · verified October 9, 2026
School
Source: catalog.illinois.edu · verified October 9, 2026
Location
Champaign, IL
Delivery / residency
Campus-basedClasses and workshops meet in person on campus throughout the program.
Source: catalog.illinois.edu · verified October 9, 2026
Study intensity
Not verified
Duration
Not verified
Required credits
120 hours for graduation; 36 hours in CW and ENGL courses for the major
Source: catalog.illinois.edu · verified October 9, 2026
Teaching language
English (not separately stated)
Why this degree is listed

The catalog lists Creative Writing as its own major (BALAS), separate from the English major and its concentrations.

Source: catalog.illinois.edu · verified October 9, 2026

We list dedicated creative writing degrees only. Eligibility rules

Curriculum, genres and faculty

Genres

PoetryFictionCreative Nonfiction

Source: english.illinois.edu · verified October 9, 2026

Workshops

Craft courses

Literary journal opportunities

  • For-credit course producing the online Ninth Letter, and the student-run Montage Arts Journal
    Source: english.illinois.edu · verified October 9, 2026

Faculty listed by the program

  • Amanda Bales
  • John Dudek
  • Julie Price
  • John Rubins

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: english.illinois.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”.

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

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. catalog.illinois.edu/graduate/las/creative-writing-mfa/ — Official catalog / bulletin, verified October 9, 2026
  2. catalog.illinois.edu/undergraduate/las/creative-writing-balas/ — Official catalog / bulletin, verified October 9, 2026
  3. english.illinois.edu/academics/undergraduate-studies/our-undergraduate-creative-writing-major — Official program page, verified October 9, 2026

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