University of New Mexico

University of New Mexico

Albuquerque, NM

http://english.unm.edu/graduate/master-of-fine-arts/index.html

Degrees Offered

MFA

Genres

Fiction, Poetry, CNF

Residency type

Full

Program length

3 years

Financial Aid

The MFA faculty is committed to supporting its graduate students with teaching assistantships for the full three years it takes most students to complete the program, offering them the opportunity to teach not only Freshman Composition and Expository Writing but Introduction to Creative Writing as well. At UNM, we believe that MFA students should not go wildly into debt while completing their degrees. For this reason we encourage all applicants to our program to apply for teaching assistantships. Our program is small by national standards, but with a relatively small student-faculty ratio and competitive teaching stipends for three years, we believe we offer our MFA students the chance to fully immerse themselves in writing without the exorbitant price tags attached to some other MFA programs.

Teaching opportunities

TAships available

Editorial opportunities

Editorial opportunities with Blue Mesa Review are available.

Cross-genre study

Cross-genre work is a required component of the curriculum.

Graduates

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