Brewton-Parker College, a four-year college associated with the Georgia Baptist Convention is located in Mount Vernon, Georgia. They offer a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing. According to the website, "Writing courses familiarize students with a variety of traditional and contemporary genres, and invite each student to seek and find his or her own voice."
Graduate writing programs are moving online to accommodate the working non-traditional student. While there are residency programs in Christian colleges, Perelandra College is a leader in online study.
This 36-hour program provides students with the skills needed to become professional writers. It is also a program for public school teachers to obtain the master's degree needed for salary increase and writing instruction. It is also for teaching students writing pedagogy for online instruction.
Low Residency or online programs provide classwork online and require a few weeks of on-campus workshopping. Spaulding University is located in Louisville, KY. Their brief-residency Master of Fine Arts program boasts of well-published writing scholars as faculty and visiting professors. Spaulding, founded by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in 1814 is a Catholic University in the Catholic tradition.
The 10-day residencies are filled with supportive workshops, lectures, intensives and panel discussions. The remainder of the degree consists of correspondence with a faculty mentor.
A Research/Studio curriculum is an intense program requiring 48-60 semester hours over two to three years. The core creative writing and elective courses are designed to provide the tools needed to publish a book-length creative writing piece.
Boston College has a graduate creative writing program requiring a "series of practice-based writing courses along with their literature courses" according to their website. Boston College has a long tradition in excellence in English and modern languages, founded by the Society of Jesus in 1863 serving the sons of the Irish working class.