The MFA at Ashland - Tuition and Fees

Valerie Due, MFA student, has had her essay "The Skinning Board" selected as the winner of the Writers at Work nonfiction fellowship competition, which includes prize money, publication in Quarterly West, a featured reading at the Writers at Work Conference, full tuition for the conference, free housing, and a manuscript consultation with a visiting writer or agent while at the conference. Abigail Thomas, the judge of the contest, had this to say about Due's piece: "I love the emotional restraint coupled with the ravishing prose of the piece. It serves so perfectly the young narrator whose initiation into the harsh realities of life--and death--on a farm is being presented here."

Peter Campion's essay on poetry and politics is now featured on Poetry Daily. He won a Pushcart Prize for his poem, "Just Now."

Robert Root's The Nonfictionist's Guide: On Reading and Writing Creative Nonfiction will be published in paperback edition in August 2008 by Rowman and Littlefield.

Stephen Haven's new book The River Lock: One Boy's Life Along the Mohawk has been published by The University of Syracuse Press.

Angie Estes has had three of her poems translated and published in the recent Russian anthology Contemporary Poetry in the United States: A Bilingual English-Cyrillic Edition. New poems also appear in the Spring 2008 issue of FIELD. Her lyric essay, "Want," was just published in the anthology Every Passing Breath: Contemporary Poets Respond to the Psalms.

Amy Campbell, Incoming MFA student, was a finalist for the Hunger Mountain Creative Nonfiction Prize for her piece, "A World Away."

Timothy West, Incoming MFA student, has had his poem "To My Daughter on a Workday" selected to be featured on an RTA bus card in Cleveland, Ohio for the annual Moving Minds: The Verse and Vision Project.

Program Tuition and Fees

2008 Tuition Rates:

There is a $520 cost per credit for course work in the Ashland University MFA Program. A technology fee is included in the $520 per credit cost. Other than room and board during summer residencies, students will be charged no other fees.

Projected Tuition Schedule

Summer Residency Room and Board Options

Use of Athletic Facilities

Tuition Schedule

First Year

Summer Semester:

English 501: Summer Residency I (3 credits): $1,560

Fall Semester:

English 631: Mentorship I (non-residential, 9 credits): $4,680

Spring Semester:

English 632: Mentorship II (non-residential, 9 credits): $4,680

Tuition Cost for First Year: $10,920

Second Year

Summer Semester:

English 502: Summer Residency I (3 credits): $1,560

Fall Semester:

English 633: Mentorship III (non-residential, 9 credits): $4,680

Spring Semester:

English 701: Mentorship IV, Thesis (non-residential, 9 credits): $4,680

Estimated Tuition Cost for Second Year: $10,920

Final Residency

(at the end of second year)

English 503: Summer Residency III (3 credits): $1,560

Estimated Tuition Cost for Final Residency: $1,560

Total number of credits to complete program: 45

Estimated Total Tuition Cost of MFA Program: $23,400

Please Note: Tuition cost is subject to change annually.

Optional Cost for Use of Athletic Facilities

Note: Ashland University students, staff, faculty, and family members access the University's new Sports Science and Recreation Center by purchasing memberships. During summer residencies, MFA students have the option of buying a $20 two-week membership. This membership can be purchased the first day of the residency from the Sports Science and Recreation Center Help Desk.

The Sports Science and Recreation Center was completed in spring 2006. Facilities include a 25-yard long pool, high dive, whirlpool, sauna, fitness center, racquetball courts, basketball and volleyball courts, indoor soccer, track, rock climbing wall, simulated golf, ping pong, pool tables, snack and coffee bar, etc.