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Crime At The Top 100 Colleges In The U.S.
Crime At The Top 100 Colleges In The U.S.
Every year, parents send their kids off to college with the expectation that they will be receiving their education in a safe environment. However, the reality is that college can be a dangerous place for students. Beyond sex, drugs and alcohol, campus crime is a serious issue even at the top schools.
Many parents and students focus on academic rankings by organizations like Forbes and US News, but often give little thought to the amount and type of crime that occurs on those same campuses.
Are you enrolled in or have a son or daughter attending one of the top U.S. colleges? Have you seen the campus crime reports for your school?
The Clery Act requires that all schools receiving federal funding publish campus crime statistics every year - at the Forbes Top 100 schools.
Take a look at the data from the last few years and see how your school stacks up.
Most Reported Crimes Overall
Stanford - 517
University of California Los Angeles - 433
University of Maryland College Park - 371
University of California Berkley - 337
University of Virginia Main Campus - 265
Sexual Assault
Harvard - 83
University of Michigan Ann Arbor- 64
Stanford - 59
University of North Caroline Chapel Hill - 52
University of California Berkley - 49
While all colleges and universities have been required to disclose information about the crime on and around their campuses since 1990, critics argue that many schools purposely underreport crime to protect their images.
Specifically, schools have been very slow to accurately report sexual assaults in their Clery Act crime statistics. In fact, of the 11,063 campuses in the Clery Act database, only 1,670 reported even a single incident of sex related (forcible or non-forcible) crime.
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