These advantages include the program's structure and curriculum. Antioch's philosophy of education emphasizes each student as a self-learner capable of organizing a graduate curriculum and implementing it successfully. The self-designed program allows students to select a degree committee that can be directly involved with helping the student make the right decisions on how to improve his or her craft. Literary study is individualized too as students pick writers who are models of good writing.
Students can pursue genre questions in depth as well.
This unique program focuses on how students can best realize their individual writing goals. They can use local resources as a foundation for their writing. Often students cannot find a writing program with the flexibility of Antioch's. This flexibility is one of the key features that separates Antioch's IMA self-designed program from others. In addition, each student has a faculty adviser located in Yellow Springs who has overall responsibility for the student's progress.