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Career Options with a Graduate Degree in English

The program equips students to advance within an existing career, to pursue the goal of becoming a published author, or in the case of K-12 teachers, to complete work as part of their professional development plan and to gain knowledge they can pass on to their students. Career options -

  • upper-level writing positions often at the managerial level
  • editing
  • journalism
  • media writing
  • children’s writing
  • public relations
  • human resources
  • advertising
  • grant writing
  • freelance writing
  • publishing
  • technical writing
  • magazine writing

Students completing the English graduate program are well positioned to teach writing courses at the college level or to continue their studies at the doctoral level.