Why LMU?

• Loyola Marymount University is a beautiful campus, perched on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean and west Los Angeles, in a safe, friendly part of the city.
  
  
• Students can choose to do their M.A. in English with an emphasis in Literature, Creative Writing, or Rhetoric and Composition. Students can also do some course work through other programs, such as Philosophy, Theological Studies, and Film.
  
  
• We combine the canonical and the cutting-edge: a traditional, broad education in Anglo-American literature, several multiethnic literatures, and contemporary rhetorical and critical theory.
  
  
• We support travel to academic conferences for students to present their work. We have a system for training students to develop conference paper proposals, undergo peer review of their work before attending the conference, and ensuring that they make the most of such professional opportunities.
  
  
• Our Creative Writing workshops are run by authors who have published several volumes of work and have a network of international contacts. We have launched SYNTEXT, our writing curriculum that highlights writing across genres, in different modes, and experimenting with hybrid-genre work.
  
  
• Recent M.A. graduates have gone on for Ph.D. programs at the University of California (Irvine, Riverside, Los Angeles), Duke, USC, NYU, the University of Michigan and other top schools.
  
  
• We are an expanding program recently infused with substantial grant funds designed to offset tuition fees for well-qualified incoming students. We also have a limited number of teaching fellowships, as well as department grants.
  
  
• We accommodate a range of students--teachers, professionals in entertainment and business--by holding evening classes.
  
  
• Our application due date is relatively late: April 1. (We're mellowed by that L.A. sunshine.)