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 number of crimes and violations reported on campus 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.

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Institution	Enrollment (2018)	Aggravated Assault (2016-2018)	Hate Crimes (2016-2018)	Drug Abuse Violations (2016-2018)	Liquor Law Violations (2016-2018)	Sexual Assaults (2018)	Sexual Assaults (2017)	Sexual Assaults (2016)	Robbery/Burglary (2018)	Robbery/Burglary (2017)	Robbery/Burglary (2016)
American University	14,311	11	7	384	1,212	19	20	19	15	19	14
Amherst College	1,855	2	1	9	107	30	23	8	12	12	7
Arizona State University	51,585	17	3	651	2,268	18	28	32	46	25	31
Babson College	3,357	5	1	13	385	18	12	9	6	1	7
Barnard College	2,562	0	1	55	96	2	0	2	4	2	0
Baruch College (CUNY)	18,029	0	0	6	4	0	2	0	0	1	1
Bates College	1,832	1	0	157	575	9	14	12	3	10	5
Bentley University	5,460	3	3	157	773	14	6	2	2	4	10
Binghamton University	17,768	2	4	709	762	12	5	16	5	17	12
Boston College	14,720	3	7	492	4,298	39	64	33	3	4	15
Boston University	34,657	54	2	10	2,139	11	26	23	32	21	25
Bowdoin College	1,828	0	0	52	325	14	10	18	2	3	1
Brandeis University	5,800	3	2	149	490	1	7	8	2	6	3
Brigham Young University	34,499	3	7	22	14	19	9	7	4	9	1
Brown University	10,257	2	17	80	309	23	27	47	14	16	10
Bryn Mawr College	1,690	0	0	16	44	10	6	9	6	2	3
Bucknell University	3,668	1	0	245	1,392	26	20	16	4	6	4
California Institute of Technology	2,233	5	1	33	168	75	30	13	4	6	6
California Polytechnic Institute, San Luis Obispo	22,013	4	0	19	632	9	17	10	8	13	13
Carleton College	2,097	1	2	45	85	22	15	7	3	0	0
Carnegie Mellon University	14,029	2	6	128	9	18	17	15	20	25	23
Case Western Reserve University	11,890	3	0	174	757	6	3	3	3	8	21
Claremont McKenna College	1,327	1	1	38	15	8	8	16	4	13	22
Clarkson University	4,274	0	8	209	360	0	0	6	0	0	0
Clemson University	24,951	8	2	133	1,344	7	9	9	13	21	22
Colby College	2,000	1	1	48	253	15	11	13	1	5	15
Colgate University	2,969	3	1	586	544	12	4	6	4	20	12
The College of New Jersey	7,686	0	1	155	820	10	9	23	4	7	21
College of the Holy Cross	2,939	4	3	57	1,086	110	7	9	2	3	5
College of William & Mary	8,817	2	1	77	497	9	12	13	7	4	12
Colorado College	2,144	1	9	499	792	7	17	14	2	3	3
Colorado School of Mines	6,325	2	0	40	225	8	5	9	1	2	1
Columbia University	31,077	2	13	512	351	16	10	18	25	25	18
Connecticut College	1,844	3	6	153	450	3	13	9	6	6	7
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art	952	0	1	15	55	0	0	1	0	0	1
Cornell University	23,600	15	12	226	871	41	31	20	30	15	18
Dartmouth College	6,572	4	27	52	783	38	33	20	14	14	13
Davidson College	1,843	0	0	77	704	12	25	25	4	1	8
Dickinson College	2,399	1	0	184	357	15	13	15	5	11	13
Drexel University	24,634	5	3	438	1,067	5	11	8	5	3	5
Duke University	16,606	17	3	248	936	22	29	28	24	44	39
Elon University	6,991	0	0	285	748	4	3	5	3	4	9
Emory University	14,458	1	72	456	456	27	17	11	38	44	35
Fairfield University	5,273	3	0	172	912	9	5	6	5	7	11
Florida State University	41,005	11	8	2	1,043	7	14	17	47	31	39
Fordham University	16,515	4	6	416	2,521	5	10	15	18	21	23
Franklin & Marshall College	2,309	5	3	162	328	21	22	17	6	14	8
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering	390	0	0	5	9	2	1	0	0	0	0
George Mason University	37,316	3	3	299	1,073	15	32	26	2	11	18
George Washington University	28,172	11	5	489	715	34	51	45	24	18	28
Georgetown University	19,204	6	26	177	834	18	18	24	47	32	50
Georgia Institute of Technology	32,723	13	0	136	439	11	12	16	59	18	22
Grinnell College	1,716	1	0	41	103	9	5	11	2	2	1
Hamilton College	2,005	0	0	232	134	17	17	15	1	1	6
Harvard University	31,566	10	8	69	70	44	45	39	47	51	76
Harvey Mudd College	902	0	0	26	18	6	7	13	3	2	2
Haverford College	1,310	1	0	9	35	8	13	9	2	3	2
Hofstra University	10,871	1	0	197	118	10	18	13	6	3	1
Illinois Institute of Technology	6,753	4	0	113	180	4	3	1	3	17	18
Indiana University – Bloomington	43,503	10	11	716	3,032	23	26	24	42	39	46
Johns Hopkins University	26,152	77	1	68	875	32	27	11	34	31	18
Kenyon College	1,730	0	2	203	371	18	21	21	2	3	4
Lafayette College	2,642	1	0	51	281	15	10	8	3	9	18
Lawrence University	1,463	0	1	128	95	10	25	35	0	0	0
Lehigh University	6,849	5	1	212	560	2	2	0	0	0	1
Loyola University Maryland	5,645	2	5	0	1,126	12	10	13	1	9	2
Macalester College	2,174	0	1	188	415	9	15	4	8	9	4
Marist College	6,624	0	1	192	1,343	10	8	4	13	3	8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	11,574	6	1	12	108	25	14	15	30	20	16
Middlebury College	2,611	1	2	0	859	24	26	14	2	11	13
Mount Holyoke College	2,335	0	0	10	19	8	1	5	8	4	18
New York University	51,847	38	2	402	3,446	46	35	29	33	32	29
North Carolina State University	35,479	25	0	249	906	25	32	34	14	33	34
Northeastern University	21,627	14	15	117	1,213	14	17	15	7	9	16
Northwestern University	22,127	16	5	54	767	12	18	18	31	28	44
Oberlin College	2,812	0	5	400	450	8	9	18	14	11	27
Occidental College	1,930	2	2	142	296	13	16	10	14	5	12
Ohio State University – Columbus	61,170	33	36	916	5,121	1,163	102	79	99	56	26
Pennsylvania State University – University Park	46,810	31	20	885	2,558	76	57	51	28	38	70
Pepperdine University	7,961	0	1	44	82	6	0	2	4	14	17
Pitzer College	1,072	3	1	65	100	15	10	10	1	4	2
Pomona College	1,573	0	0	105	324	9	5	13	16	8	21
Princeton University	8,374	3	3	106	166	32	26	16	16	17	38
Purdue University – West Lafayette	29,579	116	29	2,179	8,030	140	149	101	114	97	123
Reed College	1,503	0	1	432	202	15	75	36	2	2	3
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	7,895	2	0	49	289	7	10	5	4	7	6
Rhodes College	2,036	1	0	72	211	9	4	19	1	8	6
Rice University	7,124	8	2	31	40	17	7	25	6	5	7
Rochester Institute of Technology	16,463	0	5	307	239	28	19	14	7	11	0
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	2,142	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	8	1
Rutgers University	50,254	14	5	291	83	21	38	31	11	17	27
San Diego State University	35,303	4	2	581	1,862	8	8	6	29	58	42
Santa Clara University	8,642	2	2	286	1,165	4	3	1	2	2	3
Scripps College	1,071	0	1	11	57	3	11	5	2	3	8
Sewanee – The University of the South	1,785	5	0	280	615	29	24	22	9	21	30
Skidmore College	2,613	5	2	322	421	14	23	18	26	10	10
Smith College	2,903	0	0	13	14	3	9	7	3	11	5
Southern Methodist University	11,649	8	0	199	756	13	10	14	19	11	7
St. Olaf College	3,048	1	5	173	251	22	30	17	2	4	6
Stanford University	17,381	17	36	7	0	50	39	46	47	55	57
Stevens Institute of Technology	6,929	4	0	18	141	6	4	6	10	7	2
Stony Brook University	26,256	19	11	480	502	44	32	24	34	25	18
Swarthmore College	1,559	1	5	115	241	9	21	26	0	3	2
Syracuse University	22,803	4	8	665	2,765	15	19	15	40	30	40
Texas A&M University – College Station	68,679	58	6	276	416	205	123	50	73	51	62
The University of Texas at Austin	51,832	19	0	154	364	17	14	18	8	11	16
Trinity College (CT)	2,235	2	3	225	315	15	23	19	8	6	12
Trinity University	2,637	0	0	137	217	5	2	5	6	1	10
Tufts University	11,586	12	1	5	338	13	13	27	9	9	21
Tulane University	12,646	4	0	67	10	19	20	17	19	37	24
Union College	2,197	2	1	259	1304	9	10	5	4	0	3
University at Buffalo (SUNY)	31,503	11	2	857	936	12	10	7	24	31	28
University of California, Berkeley	42,501	53	14	278	1,575	28	37	37	43	64	43
University of California, Davis	38,167	25	3	1	20	28	20	15	41	33	36
University of California, Irvine	36,032	3	4	98	873	34	20	46	45	30	47
University of California, Los Angeles	44,537	55	15	257	1,257	56	40	24	87	96	65
University of California, San Diego	37,887	17	7	620	2,466	32	24	17	35	17	20
University of California, Santa Barbara	25,976	23	1	278	1,105	29	34	22	22	35	31
University of Chicago	17,002	13	0	20	79	25	23	17	19	18	10
University of Connecticut	27,412	1	13	475	1,035	32	21	37	18	11	26
University of Florida	52,218	34	1	54	464	23	22	23	32	26	24
University of Georgia	38,652	8	3	53	655	14	19	18	44	36	41
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	49,702	13	1	663	769	47	49	21	11	20	35
University of Maryland, College Park	41,200	14	10	7	1,475	43	33	16	6	16	20
University of Massachusetts Amherst	30,593	16	10	12	623	31	18	21	11	13	21
University of Miami	17,331	11	3	322	479	17	14	3	11	8	9
University of Michigan	46,716	33	10	775	4,160	73	25	26	18	20	13
University of Minnesota – Twin Cities	50,734	16	8	667	2,517	48	35	20	59	28	30
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	30,011	10	1	145	1,426	30	80	26	16	17	22
University of Notre Dame	12,607	7	0	80	1,930	13	23	11	23	14	12
University of Pennsylvania	25,860	14	4	215	947	11	10	16	15	9	13
University of Pittsburgh – Pittsburgh Campus	28,673	9	0	332	779	11	14	22	4	1	6
University of Richmond	4,002	2	0	99	492	5	18	13	16	14	9
University of Rochester	11,817	5	0	571	810	30	21	19	7	6	11
University of Southern California	47,310	12	17	325	1,909	98	18	21	27	26	30
University of Virginia	24,639	19	8	123	1,420	44	18	17	14	9	22
University of Washington – Seattle	47,400	9	1	511	1,484	50	17	13	58	46	52
University of Wisconsin – Madison	43,463	21	22	928	3,977	26	24	35	46	47	35
Vanderbilt University	12,824	27	0	268	697	53	37	26	9	4	8
Vassar College	2,456	0	11	130	61	17	22	16	10	23	12
Villanova University	11,030	2	3	118	1,672	5	6	6	10	13	11
Wake Forest University	8,401	7	0	169	1,380	15	9	9	14	13	27
Washington & Lee University	2,223	0	3	139	204	11	8	7	2	9	3
Washington University in St. Louis	15,852	24	2	207	1,300	32	29	40	16	14	20
Wellesley College	2,534	0	0	10	11	4	4	11	1	3	1
Wesleyan University	3,217	1	0	466	1,032	14	12	26	4	10	17
Whitman College	1,475	0	0	139	340	8	7	10	0	2	3
Williams College	2,149	5	0	10	379	12	20	16	2	11	20
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	6,874	1	2	37	252	5	5	1	3	0	0
Yale University	13,433	15	0	10	3	39	28	32	29	38	40

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