美术硕士是创意写作的最终学位。WVU的MFA学生在为期三年的学术/工作室课程中学习，该课程将手工艺学徒与传统上更为学术的元素相结合。这种方法试图以反映作者/艺术家在学院中不断变化的角色的现实的方式培训学生。由于在被聘为教书的作家时，通常会要求他们处理创意写作工作坊以外的各种课程，因此学术/工作室形式要求学生除写作工作坊外还参加文学和教育学课程。美术创作硕士课程是一个为期三年的学术/工作室课程，将手工艺学徒与传统上更为学术的元素相结合。
The Master of Fine Arts at West Virginia University is a three-year program that combines work in a primary genre and at least one other genre with course offerings in literature, pedagogy and professional writing and editing.<br><br>Our alumni have gone on to further graduate study in English, to careers in editing and publishing and to positions in academia. They have received awards such as the Olive B. OConnor Fellowship at Colgate and the Emory University Creative Writing Fellowship, won national prizes like the Iowa Award for Poetry and the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Prize for Nonfiction and published books with Autumn House Press, Carnegie Mellon University, 42 Miles Press, Ohio University Press, University of Georgia Press, University Press of New England and William Morrow/Harper Collins, among others.