Writing Studies is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #49 most popular master's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Writing Studies Master's Degree Schools in Arizona ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 55 master's degrees in writing studies during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to writing studies students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other writing studies students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt writing studies students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized writing studies related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for writing studies students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Writing Studies Master's Degree Schools in Arizona ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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It is hard to beat University of Arizona if you want to pursue a master's degree in writing studies. University of Arizona is a very large public university located in the large city of Tucson.
Soon after graduating, writing master's recipients usually earn about $41,764 in the first five years of their career.
It's hard to beat Northern Arizona University if you want to pursue a master's degree in writing studies. NAU is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Flagstaff.
Master's students who receive their degree from the writing program make an average of $39,899 for their early career.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
