College Campus Crime Statistics

As parents, the safety and wellbeing of our children is a driving force behind every decision that we make; college is certainly no exception. When our sons and daughters leave the nest for the first time, we want to know that the campus where they reside is as safe and secure a locale as is humanly possible. Examining the campus crime statistics in detail can give us some insight into this hard-to-quantify variable of “safety.”

When reviewing the numbers that follow, it’s critical to consider the size of the student body. It would be expected that a large university would have proportionally more incidents that a tiny liberal arts school. We provided the number of sexual assaults (crimes classified as “rape” or “fondling”) and robbery/burglary for each of the last three years so that you can observe any upward or downward trends. For less frequent offenses, like aggravated assaults and hate crimes, we provided an aggregate total from the past three years. Drug and alcohol violations are also provided as a total figure over a three-year span.

Limitations to this data: What is listed here is, of course, only the crimes that are reported. In some cases, a slight rise in sexual assaults may actually be indicative of an improved culture of reporting. Contrarily, a zero in the same category does not necessarily mean that no such crimes occurred. Likewise with drug and alcohol violations—a high number may mean that there is a “party culture” at a given school, or it may mean that the policies are actually being strictly enforced.

Acknowledging that these individual numbers alone are not 100% perfect measures of campus safety, they are still, in our view, highly worthwhile metrics to utilize as you assess the potential dangers/issues at a prospective institution.

Updated: July 2021

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Institution	Enrollment (2019)	Aggravated Assault (2017-2019)	Hate Crimes (2017-2019)	Drug Abuse Violations (2017-2019)	Liquor Law Violations (2017-2019)	Sexual Assaults (2019)	Sexual Assaults (2018)	Sexual Assaults (2017)	Robbery/Burglary (2019)	Robbery/Burglary (2018)	Robbery/Burglary (2017)
American University	14,318	5	5	438	1,133	18	19	20	7	15	17
Amherst College	1,839	2	1	9	97	22	30	23	24	12	12
Arizona State University	53,286	14	2	506	2,267	38	18	28	23	46	25
Babson College	3,325	4	1	9	340	6	18	12	5	6	1
Barnard College	2,631			50	121	1	3	2	3	4	2
Baruch College (CUNY)	18,679			7	1			2	3		1
Bates College	1,820	1		100	341	8	9	14	4	3	10
Bentley University	5,314	7	3	206	707	5	14	6	2	2	4
Binghamton University	18,124	1	4	702	895	17	12	5	8	5	17
Boston College	14,747	2	6	328	3,125	30	39	64	5	3	4
Boston University	34,589	12	4	10	1,920	15	9	18	22	26	18
Bowdoin College	1,828			52	325	14	10	18	2	2	3
Brandeis University	5,825	5	1	91	366	19	1	7	1	2	7
Brigham Young University	34,318	3	8	21	15	14	19	9	3	4	9
Brown University	10,333	3	12	75	257	37	23	27	25	14	16
Bryn Mawr College	1,723			24	40	4	10	6	2	6	2
Bucknell University	3,697		1	229	984	16	26	20	4	4	6
California Institute of Technology	2,237			19	355	28	75	30	23	5	6
California Polytechnic Institute, San Luis Obispo	21,426	4		36	459	25	9	17	15	8	13
Carleton College	2,115	1	2	112	116	20	22	15		3
Carnegie Mellon University	14,180	2	6	112	8	17	18	17	12	20	25
Case Western Reserve University	11,874	2		212	709	10	6	3	4	4	8
Claremont McKenna College	1,346	2		26	7	10	8	8	4	4	13
Clarkson University	4,301		14	159	386	4
Clemson University	25,822	6	1	123	1,577	6	7	9	7	13	21
Colby College	2,003	1	1	53	276	12	15	11	4	1	5
Colgate University	2,992	2	1	599	431	5	12	4	14	4	20
The College of New Jersey	7,821			116	872	21	10	9	3	4	7
College of the Holy Cross	2,962	4	4	51	1,001	4	110	7	3	2	3
College of William & Mary	8,773			85	437	13	9	12	11	7	4
Colorado College	2,123	2	6	384	773	11	7	17	5	2	3
Colorado School of Mines	6,628	3		28	233	5	8	5	5	1	2
Columbia University	31,456	4	13	533	462	19	16	10	50	25	25
Connecticut College	1,861	2	4	149	492	7	3	13	7	6	6
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art	952			21	72
Cornell University	24,027	12	5	186	1139	31	41	31	43	30	15
Dartmouth College	6,606	9	17	27	766	45	50	33	15	17	14
Davidson College	1,837			84	667	18	12	25	5	4	1
Dickinson College	2,133	4	2	127	258	16	15	13	4	5	11
Drexel University	24,205	6	2	527	1,230	8	5	11	8	5	3
Duke University	16,686	11	2	214	1,009	12	22	29	29	24	44
Elon University	7,088			307	800	4	4	3	4	3	4
Emory University	14,415	7	1	76	504	21	27	17	26	38	44
Fairfield University	5,349	2		134	823	8	8	5	3	5	7
Florida State University	42,450	7	6	2	885	1	7	14	37	47	31
Fordham University	16,972	5	8	509	2,763	23	5	10	8	18	21
Franklin & Marshall College	2,315	5	5	157	380	27	21	22	4	6	14
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering	386			5	6		2	1
George Mason University	37,863	3	4	305	902	22	15	32	6	2	11
George Washington University	27,814	4		493	768	32	35	51	13	24	18
Georgetown University	19,593	3	25	211	796	26	18	18	59	47	32
Georgia Institute of Technology	36,302	10		163	554	11	11	12	27	59	18
Grinnell College	1,733	1		62	132	6	9	5	5	2	2
Hamilton College	2,012			224	67	18	17	17	2	1	1
Harvard University	31,655	12	10	65	62	33	44	45	46	47	51
Harvey Mudd College	904			20	26	3	6	7	2	3	2
Haverford College	1,317	1		25	30	10	8	13		2	3
Hofstra University	10,804			164	97	19	10	18	2	6	3
Illinois Institute of Technology	6,515	2		104	148	6	4	3	7	3	17
Indiana University – Bloomington	43,260	15	9	933	2,923	24	23	26	17	42	39
Johns Hopkins University	27,079	114	5	44	700	32	32	27	25	34	31
Kenyon College	1,750		2	212	289	14	18	21	2	2	3
Lafayette College	2,662	4		48	236	14	15	10	10	3	9
Lawrence University	1,442		4	127	76	8	12	25
Lehigh University	6,953	4	1	207	659	4	2	3	5
Loyola University Maryland	5,473		1	3	1,017	6	12	10	2	1	9
Macalester College	2,098		1	150	358	11	9	15	4	8	9
Marist College	6,738		1	199	1,261	21	10	8	8	13	3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	11,520	4		10	118	16	23	14	14	30	20
Middlebury College	2,657		2		848	13	24	26	3	2	11
Mount Holyoke College	2,300			10	24	5	8	1	4	8	4
New York University	52,885	39	2	400	2,982	12	46	35	8	33	32
North Carolina State University	36,304	24	2	271	943	18	25	32	23	14	33
Northeastern University	22,207	17	16	36	1,173	17	14	17	15	7	9
Northwestern University	22,448	15	4	8	725	10	12	18	24	31	28
Oberlin College	2,863		2	330	376		7	9	12	14	11
Occidental College	1,985	1		206	296	11	13	16	5	14	5
Ohio State University – Columbus	61,391	38	18	935	4,530	1467	1163	102	76	99	56
Pennsylvania State University – University Park	91,427	28	17	752	2,748	65	76	57	30	28	38
Pepperdine University	8,824		1	44	87	10	6		10	4	14
Pitzer College	1,086		3	74	98	6	15	10	8	1	4
Pomona College	1,637	1	1	95	260	6	9	5	18	16	8
Princeton University	8,419	2	2	78	73	13	32	26	13	16	17
Purdue University – West Lafayette	29,537	97	22	2,299	7,451	118	141	149	112	114	97
Reed College	1,471		1	355	198	3	15	75	10	2	2
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	7,528	1		72	402	8	7	10	26	4	7
Rhodes College	2,010	1		44	315	7	8	4	1	3	8
Rice University	7,282	7	1	19	44	33	17	7	2	6	5
Rochester Institute of Technology	16,254		4	265	256	22	28	19	2	7	11
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	2,038				1			2			8
Rutgers University	50,173	19	3	263	81	37	21	38	34	11	17
San Diego State University	35,544	7		581	2,094	9	8	8	26	29	58
Santa Clara University	8,669	1		275	1,068	7	4	3	4	2	2
Scripps College	1,109		1	6	31	2	3	11	7	2	3
Sewanee – The University of the South	1,768	5		262	678	22	29	24	5	9	21
Skidmore College	2,663	5	2	301	400	6	14	23	4	26	10
Smith College	2,894		1	6	25	6	3	9	7	3	11
Southern Methodist University	11,824	8		141	586	10	13	10	14	19	11
St. Olaf College	3,072		5	195	189	20	22	30	2	2	4
Stanford University	17,249	27	33	10	5	67	50	39	38	47	55
Stevens Institute of Technology	7,283	2		17	161	4	6	4	3	10	7
Stony Brook University	26,814	26	10	403	493	26	44	32	15	34	25
Swarthmore College	1,594	2	1	113	306	12	9	21	1		3
Syracuse University	22,850	4	15	521	2,132	15	15	19	9	40	30
Texas A&M University – College Station	68,726	50	6	238	381	58	205	122	50	73	51
The University of Texas at Austin	51,090	20		181	313	22	17	14	19	8	11
Trinity College (CT)	2,234	1	3	157	209	19	15	23	7	8	6
Trinity University	2,606	1		133	236	15	5	2	5	6	1
Tufts University	11,878	14	8	41	405	11	13	13	4	9	9
Tulane University	12,923	5	2	140	5	21	19	20	13	19	37
Union College	2,189		1	230	1,137	14	9	10	1	4
University at Buffalo (SUNY)	31,923	8	3	900	991	14	12	10	18	24	31
University of California, Berkeley	43,185	65	12	295	1,637	31	27	37	97	43	64
University of California, Davis	38,634	31	6		3	40	28	20	92	41	33
University of California, Irvine	36,908	1	3	118	853	39	34	20	16	45	30
University of California, Los Angeles	44,371	55	15	326	1,344	77	56	40	49	87	96
University of California, San Diego	38,736	16	5	571	2,151	19	32	24	18	35	17
University of California, Santa Barbara	26,314	17	2	230	920	14	25	23	17	22	35
University of Chicago	17,452	9	1	9	74	25	23	17	19	19	18
University of Connecticut	27,280	3	13	440	936	21	32	21	18	18	11
University of Florida	52,407	60		27	298	24	23	22	25	32	26
University of Georgia	38,920	10	4	69	599	24	14	19	35	44	36
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	51,605	16	1	429	794	28	47	49	18	11	20
University of Maryland, College Park	40,743	13	11	8	1,350	30	43	33	26	6	16
University of Massachusetts Amherst	31,350	10	8	6	615	30	31	18	10	11	13
University of Miami	17,811	8	5	300	436	14	17	14	7	11	8
University of Michigan	48,090	38	7	529	3,601	44	73	25	7	18	20
University of Minnesota – Twin Cities	51,327	19	9	534	2,368	56	49	35	61	59	28
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	29,877	14	12	156	1,524	27	30	80	12	16	17
University of Notre Dame	12,683	5	2	64	1,986	14	13	23	19	23	14
University of Pennsylvania	26,675	11	1	198	937	5	11	10	16	15	9
University of Pittsburgh – Pittsburgh Campus	32,686	8		266	857	12	11	14	15	4	1
University of Richmond	3,914	1		131	433	21	5	18	11	16	14
University of Rochester	12	3		512	703	53	30	21	2	7	6
University of Southern California	48,321	24	14	333	1,440	67	142	18	46	27	26
University of Virginia	25,012	19	6	111	1,153	18	44	18	9	14	9
University of Washington – Seattle	47,576	11	1	511	583	32	52	17	103	58	46
University of Wisconsin – Madison	44,257	23	10	792	3,411	20	26	24	71	46	47
Vanderbilt University	13,131	30		201	627	48	53	37	2	9	4
Vassar College	2,439		5	77	33	38	17	22	4	10	23
Villanova University	10,848	2	4	131	1,483	15	5	6	5	10	13
Wake Forest University	8,495	6		168	1,342	12	15	9	11	14	13
Washington & Lee University	2,264		3	143	257	8	11	8	4	2	9
Washington University in St. Louis	16,191	19		212	1,488	16	32	29	31	16	14
Wellesley College	2,519	2			9	1	4	4	7	1	3
Wesleyan University	3,230	2		390	818	16	14	12	6	4	10
Whitman College	1,579			118	435	1	8	7	1		2
Williams College	2,150	3	5	9	261	17	12	20	7	2	11
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	6,894	1	2	32	253	5	5	5	3	3
Yale University	13,609	20		6	6	32	39	28	44	29	38

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