Creighton University Paper Format & Writing Requirements

Creighton University at a glance

A Jesuit university famous for health-sciences pipelines into Omaha's hospital system, the Heider College of Business and a School of Medicine that now trains a full class in Phoenix.

The campus sits in Omaha, Nebraska, operates as a private (jesuit) institution, and enrolls about 9,300 students — a scale that directly shapes how writing support works. Founded in 1878 with an acceptance rate around 76%, Creighton University pairs selective admissions with the large-course writing loads typical of its category.

Citation styles Creighton University actually requires

Creighton University courses predominantly require APA 7 or MLA 9. That is not a trivial preference: it decides your title page, heading levels, in-text punctuation and reference format on every graded document.

• APA 7: used across social science, nursing and business courses
• MLA 9: used across humanities and writing-sequence courses

Verify against the specific course syllabus anyway — instructors can override departmental defaults, and the first paper is where they enforce it.

The writing requirement, decoded

The Magis Core requires Composition (ENG 150) plus upper-division writing across the curriculum, and health-sciences courses grade APA 7 care-plan and case papers hard; the Writing Center in the Reinert-Alumni Memorial Library tutors around clinical schedules.

Plan the sequence early: composition requirements compound, and students who defer them discover the advanced seminars — where the writing-intensity lives — conflict with major courses later. The registrar's degree audit shows exactly which flags remain; check it each semester.

Three things about Creighton University papers that surprise new students

• blueLine, Creighton's Canvas-based LMS, replaced Blackboard years ago, but clinical course packets still circulate as PDFs formatted for the old system.
• The Institute for Latin American Concern sends students to the Dominican Republic each summer, and the reflective essays they write on return are graded seminar documents.
• Creighton's School of Medicine opened a full four-year regional campus in Phoenix in 2021, so the same exam packets now ship between two time zones.

None of these appear in the course description. All of them appear in the rubric. Students who learn them in week one report smoother first-semesters than students who meet them at the deadline.

Assignments Creighton University students face most

• Research Paper — most frequently assigned across Creighton University's programs
• Case Study — most frequently assigned across Creighton University's programs
• Literature Review — most frequently assigned across Creighton University's programs
• Essay — most frequently assigned across Creighton University's programs
• Coursework — most frequently assigned across Creighton University's programs

Popular programs at Creighton University include nursing, finance (heider), occupational therapy — each pairs the assignment list above with its own capstone or practicum expectations, detailed on our subject pages.