Professional, Technical, Business, and Scientific Writing
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Overview
Professional, technical, business, and scientific writing is a program that focuses on professional, technical, business, and scientific writing; and that prepares individuals for academic positions or for professional careers as writers, editors, researchers, and related careers in business, government, non-profits, and the professions. includes instruction in theories of rhetoric, writing, and digital literacy; document design, production, and management; visual rhetoric and multimedia composition; documentation development; usability testing; web writing; and publishing in print and electronic media.
Highlights
School with the highest reported median starting salary ($58K) with a Certificate: The Creative Circus
Career with the highest median salary ($75K) associated with this program: Technical Writers
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Careers for program graduates
Professional, technical, business, and scientific writing majors work in these careers, which are sized by percentage of majors in the career (at least 1%) and colored by the predominant level of education.
Have completions for composition and rhetoric changed over time? Increasing completions may mean you'll likely have an easier time finding a school that offers this degree, with the opposite being true as well.
How are students who recently completed a degree in professional, technical, business, and scientific writing doing?
Below is the distribution of starting salaries along with accumulated federal and private education loans across schools that offer a degree in the field rhetoric and composition/writing studies, which includes
professional, technical, business, and scientific writing.
Recommended careers for those with a degree in composition and rhetoric
Following are the jobs recommended for those who study Composition and Rhetoric (which combines 6 programs). These are listed in order of highest nationwide employment.
Recommended Careers for composition and rhetoric majors
Is this degree preparing you for a career with a salary you want? Are there lots of openings in the near future? The Department of Education suggests these careers as a starting list, and Ididio hopes that if the career you're most interested in doesn't appear here, you will head over to our Career Explorer and learn more about paths to your best career.
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You can use this table to find schools that offer this program based on location and program level offered. Each entry goes to a school page similar to this one with all our information about that school.
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The school list includes a few facts about each school that give you an
idea of the educational quality each school might offer:
Student-Faculty Ratio: A small number of students per full-time instructor
suggests individual attention for each student and an up-to-date curriculum.
Satisfaction Rate: A high percentage of returning first-year students
should correlate with satisfaction (schools call this their retention rate).
Repayment Rate: A high repayment rate means most alumni earn enough
to make progress repaying loans within 7 years of leaving.
We also show the total enrollment for the school as measured by
full-time-equivalent (FTE) students enrolled annually.
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Following are related programs, ordered by those with the highest number of completions. You can explore a full list by pressing the more details button.
composition and rhetoric is part of a larger collection of programs: Writing and oral/written rhetoric. Is there a different program that's close to composition and rhetoric that might be a better match for your interests? You can use this table to see a little about the programs that fall under this umbrella. If you click on any of the table headers, that will sort the table by that column, or click on a row and see Ididio's profile for that program.
For composition and rhetoric graduates, men have a 8% higher median salary than women, This is better than many: 91% of programs have graduates with higher salary inequities.
Here is an overview of race/origin for all professional, technical, business, and scientific writing graduates from this last academic year. We found a lower percentage of international graduates than in 55% of other programs.