Affordable Creative Writing Degrees

Anyone know of any affordable creative writing master's degrees offered totally externally?

 

ASSOCIATE'S DEGREES IN CREATIVE WRITING DL

Saint Mary of the Woods College www.smwc.edu (BG15, 170)
Southern Cross University www.scu.edu.au (BG15, 172)

BACHELOR'S DEGREES IN CREATIVE WRITING DL

Burlington College www.burlcol.edu (BG15, 156)
University of New England www.une.edu.au (BG15, 141)
Saint Mary of the Woods College www.smwc.edu (BG15, 170)
Southern Cross University www.scu.edu.au (BG15, 172)

MASTER'S DEGREES IN CREATIVE WRITING DL

Antioch University www.antioch.edu (BG15, 155)
Bennington College www.bennington.edu (BG15, 155)
Goddard College www.goddard.edu (BG15, 160)
Goucher College www.goucher.edu (BG15, 160)
University of Melbourne www.unimelb.edu.au (BG15, 140)
Vermont College of the Union Institute www.tui.edu (BG15, 183)

DOCTORAL DEGREE IN CREATIVE WRITING DL

University of Melbourne www.unimelb.edu.au (BG15, 140)

 

John Ryan has a bunch of programs listed here:
http://www.freewebs.com/dlasap
Good luck,
Jack

 

MFA in Creative Writing

Well, affordable... hmm?
Here's my take on it.
I am a fourth residency student the low rez program at Queens University of Charlotte and I absolutely LOVE it. I have some excellent instructors and it's four
"pod" members to one author/instructor. Jane Alison is my current instructor She has read on NPR's all thing considered and is truly an artist. We get a lot done.

http://www.queens.edu/graduate/programs/creative_writing.asp

However, their financial aid office (at queens) absolutely sucks! Maybe because it's a private college. The tuition is around $5000 per semester, but I do feel it's worth the price. That's competitive with Vermont and Bennington, etc.
That said, National University has a NO residency program MFA in creative writing.

http://www.nu.edu/Academics/Schools/COLS/ArtHum/degrees/715-505.html

Any MFA is a "terminal degree" which means almost nothing except that it allows one to teach at the university level if one has publishing credits to go along with that degree. Publishing is everything (obviously).
Recently I have heard some rumblings about a Ph.d. in Creative Writing in the states. Sends chills up my spine as it would automatically destroy the "terminal" nature of the current MFA. The doctorate is, apparently, a more linquistic oriented degree. It will also probably be the degree of choice for hiring committees in the future. But, still, one must be a writer first.
In other words, an excellent author like say David Payne (my thesis advisor) who does not have an MFA but is well published will win out over an Ph.d., MFA with little or no publishing credits when it comes to a teaching position. I'm not certain how schools look at the low res and now rez versions of the MFA.
Acceptance at queens is pretty competitive. One has to be a decent writer to get into the program. So, as always with creative and artistic programs, there is an element of talent that doesn't automatically apply is some other areas of academia. I'm not sure how competitive NU is. I do know that Warren Wilson is probably the most competitive of the low residency programs.
Good luck.
Dan B

 

Ph.D. Creative Writing

Jeez, that was hard to find. They haven't finished the site yet.

http://www.english.unimelb.edu.au/creativewriting/phd-cw.html

 

Thanks, all.

I was hoping to find a program for around $10,000 or less. I really couldn't afford $5000 a semester, if the program conisted of four semesters of study.

What are the tuition fees for NU and for Warren Wilson?

 

Uh Uh!

Chile' you gots to do SOME research yosef!
good luck
Dan B

 

Are there any state universities with totally external or low-residency master's degrees in creative writing?