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PlainCampus is the Organization publisher accountable for the data framing, methodology, and corrections you read here.

Last updated: 2026-08-15

• PlainCampus

  Independent campus-safety data publisher · U.S. Department of Education data publisher

  PlainCampus is an independent data-journalism portal that examines campus safety records from the U.S. Department of Education. It transforms official public data into school profiles, comparisons, rankings, reports, and visualizations, and it does not accept payment from institutions it covers.

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PlainCampus is a data-publishing project: we compile Clery Act campus-safety records for 5,673 U.S. colleges and universities from the U.S. Department of Education's Campus Safety and Security Survey and present them in plain language. The school, state, and ranking pages are generated programmatically from that federal dataset, every figure traces to the official source, so our editorial work goes into the pipeline, the methodology, and the written guides rather than hand-authoring thousands of near-identical pages. How we source, compute, and correct the data is described on our editorial & corrections policy, about, and methodology pages.

Open extract wired into this page's Dataset JSON-LD: plaincampus-institutions.csv.