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Tier Two
Overall Rank
School
Top Twenty Ranks
Votes
17
State University of New York in Albany
#5 Selectivity
#11 Dept. Reputation
#19 Dept. Job Placement
#20 Funding
15
18
Binghamton University in New York
#18 Dept. Reputation
13
18
University of Louisiana in Lafayette
#9 CW Job Placement
#19 Funding
13
20
University of Nevada in Las Vegas
#2 Selectivity^
#5 CW Job Placement
#6 Dept. Job Placement
#18 Funding
12
20
University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg
12
22
University of Wisconsin in Madison^^
#1 Dept. Reputation
#8 Selectivity^
#12 Funding
#20 Dept. Job Placement
11
23
University of North Texas in Denton
9
24
Illinois State University in Normal
#3 Dept. Job Placement
8
24
University of Kansas in Lawrence
#9 CW Job Placement
#12 Selectivity^
#14 Dept. Reputation
#15 Funding
8
Tier Three
Overall Rank
School
Top Twenty Ranks
Votes
26
University of Hawaii in Manoa
#15 Dept. Job Placement
7
27
University of Texas in Dallas
#15 Dept. Job Placement
6
28
Oklahoma State University in Stillwater
#16 Funding
#20 Dept. Reputation
4
28
Texas A&M University in College Station
#13 Funding
#17 Dept. Reputation
4
30
University of North Dakota in Grand Forks
#15 Dept. Job Placement
#19 Dept. Reputation
3
31
University of South Dakota in Vermillion
#14 Dept. Job Placement
#15 Funding
2
Unranked
Overall Rank
School
Top Twenty Ranks
Votes
NR
University of California at Irvine*
0
Notes: * =
Program offers a creative nonfiction genre specialization only; ^ = Data includes
both master’s and doctoral candidate applications; ^^ = Program offers an internal minor in creative writing. Students complete a critical rather than
creative dissertation, but can take up to six for-credit workshops in fiction
or poetry with students in the University of Wisconsin-Madison MFA program. Applicants must be separately
admitted to the internal minor following admission to, and
matriculation with, the University's Literary Studies doctoral
program.