The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign based in Urbana, IL offers a three-year fully funded MFA in creative writing. MFA programs provide students with graduate study and professional training in the writing of fiction and poetry. The primary goal of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing is to give literary artists time and space to work on perfecting their art. Students accepted into the program will receive full tuition waivers, guaranteed teaching assistantships, and partial-fee waivers for the duration of the program, as long as they remain in good standing.