MFA计划为追求创造性写作的职业的学生提供了获得成为Vachel Lindsay所谓的“书信共和国”的领先公民所需的背景和知识的机会。该计划为学生提供了小说作家，短篇小说作家的生活准备。 ，创造性的非小说，脚本和诗歌以及相关的追求，例如教学，文学编辑和出版。学生将完成文学，写作/修辞学或英语作为第二语言的中学专攻，以便为他们毕业后的就业提供更多选择。这项为期两年的住宿学习课程包括48个学分的研究生课程工作，最终经过严格的综合考试，并完成了可发表的小说，诗歌，剧本或非小说类创意论文的发表。
The MFA program provides students pursuing vocations in creative writing the opportunity to acquire the background and knowledge required to be leading citizens of what Vachel Lindsay calls the “Republic of Letters.” The program prepares students for lives as writers of novels, short fiction, creative nonfiction, scripts, and poetry and related pursuits such as teaching, literary editing and publishing. Students will complete a secondary concentration in literature, compositionrhetoric, or teaching English as a second language in order to give them additional options for employment after graduation. The two year residential program of study consists of 48 credit hours of graduate course work, culminating in rigorous comprehensive exams and the completion of a publishable creative thesis in fiction, poetry, scriptwriting, or creative nonfiction.