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Career Opportunities

An English major at Whitworth provides a portal into a wide range of careers. The English program equips graduating seniors with strong writing abilities, familiarity with research tools and methods, and critical-thinking skills, which are in high demand in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors of the professional world.

English alums are currently working in the following professions, among others:

• College professor
• High-school English teacher
• Librarian
• Journalist
• Magazine editor
• Technical writer
• Playwright
• Ghostwriter for political/university administrators
• Screenwriter
• Poet/freelance writer
• Public-relations and advertising
• Teacher of English as a second language
• Grant writer
• Publisher representative
• Professional baseball team public-relations director
• Documentary film producer
• Entrepreneur
• Law professor
• Hospital administrator
• Urban planner
• Stand-up comic
• Peace Corps worker
• Hollywood cinematographer
• Movie director
• Novelist

Graduates of the Whitworth English Department have been accepted at these and many other graduate schools:

• Arizona State University
• Boston College
• Boston University
• Claremont Graduate School
• Cornell University
• Dubuque Seminary
• Gonzaga University
• Harvard Divinity School
• McCormick Seminary
• Oxford University
• Pacific School of Religion
• The Pennsylvania State University
• Princeton Theological Seminary
• Rutgers University
• S. U. N. Y. Stonybrook
• San Francisco Theological Seminary
• Seattle University (MBA program)
• St. John's College, Durham, England
• The Johns Hopkins University
• U. C. Berkeley
• U. C. Santa Barbara
• University of Illinois
• University of Iowa
• University of Maine
• University of Maryland
• Union Theological Seminary
• University of Montana
• University of Oregon
• University of Ottawa
• University of Toronto
• University of Virginia
• University of Washington
• University of Washington School of Medicine