Overview

Take your pick of Frostburg State University’s four English concentrations in Literature, Creative Writing, Professional Writing and Teaching Secondary English, or boost your degree with an emphasis in Professional Writing or the Teaching of Writing.

Pursue your passion by gaining widely applicable and desirable skills that will get you started in a career you’ll love.

Highlights

Develop critical thinking and research skills that you’ll be able to use again and again in both your professional and personal endeavors.
Engage with your peers in workshop-style fiction and poetry classes, which allow you to contribute to your classmates’ work while receiving critiques and advice to improve your own.
Create dynamic brochures, videos, and multi-media work to prepare you for a job in professional writing.
Read the classics as well as often marginalized voices in literature classes.
Polish your work for a final portfolio in the English program’s capstone course, which focuses on revising and improving works you’ve already written to make them the best they can be.
Enjoy a variety of activities organized by the English department and community every semester, including bake sales, story and poetry slams, the Banned Books Reading, Dr. Seuss Celebration and a Shakespearean production by Cambridge American Stage Tour.
Meet your fellow writing and literature enthusiasts in the 3AM Society student writers’ club and Sigma Tau Delta honor society.

Publish your best creative works in Bittersweet, FSU’s student literary magazine, or Backbone Mountain Review, a regional journal partnered with FSU’s Center for Literary Arts.

Career outlook

As technology advances, the need for skilled human communicators is greater than ever before. English graduates can find fulfilling work almost anywhere they look, developing web content or creating fiction, poetry, essays, speeches, press releases, publications and more.

Many English graduates use their research and argument-building skills to excel in law school, and the Internet offers endless freelance writing opportunities. Check out more career possibilities for English majors on the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ page on Communication Occupations (U.S. Government Occupational Outlook Handbook).

Programme Structure

Courses include:

British Literature: Beowulf to Present
Literature of the United States: Pre-Colonial to Present
European and Neo-European Literature
Shakespeare
Literature of the Middle Ages
Early Modern Literature

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-08-25 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-06-01 00:00:00 , International
Starting 2027-01-26 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-10-15 00:00:00 , International

Language

English

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Frostburg, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

Complete an application for admission and submit your $45 (USD) application fee
Send your official academic transcripts
Provide a photocopy of your passport identification page
Submit an international student certification of financial support
Pass an English proficiency exam

Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

International Applies to you

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Non-residents

23306 USD / year

≈ 23306 USD / year
Out-of-State

23306 USD / year

≈ 23306 USD / year
Domestic

Applies to you

In-State

7414 USD / year

≈ 7414 USD / year

Living costs

Frostburg

United States

1216 - 2059 USD / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

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Overview

Highlights

Career outlook

Programme Structure

Key information

Duration

Start dates & application deadlines

Language

Prepare for Your English Test

Credits

Delivered

Campus Location

Disciplines

What students do after studying

Academic requirements

English requirements

Prepare for Your English Test

Other requirements

General requirements

Tuition Fees

International Applies to you

Domestic

Living costs

Frostburg

Funding

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Scholarships Information

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