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The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing offers an advanced curriculum designed to help graduate students refine their poetry, fiction, and novel-writing skills. While emphasizing hands-on creative practice within each student's selected genre, the program also integrates literary studies. The MFA program aims to cultivate an environment where students can sharpen their writing abilities while developing a deeper theoretical and historical perspective on their art form.
Those applicants who have earned or will earn a bachelor's degree at a regionally accredited college or university in the United States (or the equivalent of a baccalaureate degree from a nationally recognized institution in another country) are eligible to be considered for admission to the Graduate School at the University of Maryland
M.F.A. degree program should present a 3.0 GPA
iBT TOEFL Requirements
Total - 96 (Speaking - 22, Listening - 24, Reading - 26, Writing - 24)
IELTS Requirements
Overall - 7 (Listening - 7, Reading - 7, Writing - 7, Speaking - 6.5)
PTE Requirements
Total - 68
Writing - 68