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We analyzed data from the U.S. Department of Education to create a list of the 45 most dangerous colleges.
We examined violent crimes reported on 10,499 college campuses in 2022 (the latest set of data).
We list the 45 college campuses with the highest numbers of violent crimes that year.
In 1986, 19-year-old Jeanne Clery was raped and murdered in Stoughton Hall at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. It was one of 38 violent crimes that occurred on that campus in three years. Her parents sued the university and argued that if they had been aware of the number of crimes on campus, their daughter wouldn’t have attended. They won the case, and in 1990, the Clery Act was signed.
The Clery Act requires all colleges and universities that participate in federal aid programs to report crimes on or around their campuses annually.
To create the list of most dangerous college campuses, we looked at violent crime data at 10,499 universities across America reported in 2022 .
We used Campus Safety and Security data reported to and published by the U.S. Department of Education to analyze violent crimes on campus at public, private, and non-profit universities. We selected colleges with a minimum institution size of 500 students with or without on campus housing.
The colleges listed have the highest numbers of violent crimes on campus in 2022.
In 2019 alone, a total of 27,300 criminal incidents of the following types were reported to police and security agencies:
