Aggravated Assault is a Clery Act reportable offense category - attack with intent to cause severe bodily injury.. Across the 3-year reporting window from 2022 to 2024, US colleges and universities cumulatively reported 8,000 aggravated assault incidents on-campus. The most recent year on record (2024) shows 2,869 incidents, reported by 749 of the 5,585 institutions in the survey, an average of 3.83 among the institutions that reported any. Year-over-year, aggravated assault reporting rose by 8.4% - a signal that should be read alongside reporting-practice changes, not only real-world incidence.
Crime record / national series 2024 Clery survey
Federal campus-safety record
Aggravated Assault on campus
National reporting patterns for aggravated assault across 5,585 U.S. colleges and universities.
reported incidents 2,869 2024 national total
749 campuses reported at least one
86.6% of surveyed campuses reported none
+8.4% latest year-over-year change
Offense plate
Sheet CRIME-AGGRAVATED-A · Aggravated Assault 2024 · 749 reporters
TIER-MID · SIL-MID · TRD-RISI · GEO-BROAD · GRP-CRIM · INC-TOT · YR-2024 · SRC-OPE
- TIER-MID Mid footprint
- SIL-MID 86.6% zero
- TRD-RISI Rising
- GEO-BROAD 50+ states
- GRP-CRIM #5 in group
- INC-TOT 2,869
- YR-2024 2024
- SRC-OPE OPE Clery
Offense plate for Aggravated Assault: reporting tier, zero-reporting share, trend shape, geographic breadth, and Clery group rank. Every stamp is derived from this offence's federal extract, not portal boilerplate.
2,869 aggravated assault incidents reported on U.S. campuses in 2024
According to U.S. Department of Education Clery Act filings, U.S. colleges reported 2,869 on-campus aggravated assault incidents in 2024, from 749 of 5,585 surveyed institutions, a 8.4% rise versus the prior year. University of Iowa leads the named campus list with 64 incidents. These are filed reports, not a personal risk forecast, and zeros are common for many offence types.
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- 2024 national total
- 2,869
- Campuses reporting ≥1
- 749
- Surveyed campuses with zero
- 86.6%
- Year-over-year change
- +8.4%
Which campuses filed aggravated assault reports (2024)
Of 5,585 Clery-surveyed institutions, how many recorded at least one on-campus aggravated assault incident versus zero.
- ≥1 filed 749
Campuses reporting at least one aggravated assault incident
749 campuses
- Zero
Campuses reporting zero aggravated assault incidents
4,836 campuses
What this shows 749 of 5,585 surveyed campuses (13.4%) filed at least one aggravated assault incident in 2024; 4,836 (86.6%) reported none. A zero is the ordinary case for this offence, not evidence that a campus is safer than one that filed.
Aggravated Assault briefing
What the aggravated assault national total does, and does not, show
The peak year for aggravated assault reporting was 2024 with 2,869 incidents. An average of 741 institutions recorded at least one such incident each year across the reporting window. The single institution with the most reported aggravated assault incidents in 2024 is University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA with 64 incidents (2% of the national total). 4,836 of the 5,585 surveyed institutions (86.6%) recorded no aggravated assault at all in 2024, so a zero is the ordinary case for this offence rather than a distinguishing result. With roughly 87 campuses in every hundred reporting none, a zero here carries almost no information about a specific institution; the more telling comparison is against similarly sized campuses that did report, further down this page.
Within criminal offenses reported in 2024, aggravated assault is the 5th most-reported of 11 offences, at 8.6% of the group's 33,224 incidents. Reporting is widely distributed: the single highest-reporting institution accounts for 2% of the 2024 national total, so no one campus drives this figure. No campus accounts for more than 2% of the 2024 total, so the order below tracks institution size as much as anything else: these are raw incident counts, not per-student rates, and a large university can lead the table without being less safe than a small one.
Institutions in 52 states and territories recorded at least one aggravated assault incident in 2024, and no single state dominates it, the largest being CA at 11.8%, so this is a genuinely national picture rather than a few jurisdictions standing in for one. Every figure here counts on-campus incidents; noncampus buildings and adjacent public property are reported under separate Clery Act geographic categories.
A steady increase across the window
Every year in this window moved the same way. Reported aggravated assault incidents went from 2,485 to 2,869, up 15% overall, with no year reversing the direction.
The same 5,585 institutions were surveyed in each year, so the direction is not an effect of the survey changing size. Institutions reporting at least one incident went from 700 to 749, and the average among them from 3.5 to 3.8.
Aggravated Assault reporting window
Aggravated Assault year-by-year trend
2022 2,485
2023 2,646
2024 2,869
| Year | Total Incidents | Schools Reporting ≥1 | Surveyed | Avg Among Reporters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2,485 | 700 | 5,585 | 3.55 |
| 2023 | 2,646 | 773 | 5,585 | 3.42 |
| 2024 | 2,869 | 749 | 5,585 | 3.83 |
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education Clery Act Campus Safety Survey · 2024 National trend for Aggravated Assault. Counts cover on-campus incidents; 749 of 5,585 surveyed institutions reported at least one in 2024.
Aggravated Assault: campuses with the most reports (2024)
A long tail, not a three-campus story
The first three rows contribute only 6% of reported aggravated assault incidents. Even all 20 campuses shown here account for 23.2%, leaving most of the national total outside this table. Use these rows as examples from a broad reporting footprint, not as institutions that explain the national pattern. The leading trio are University of Iowa, Johns Hopkins University and UPMC Mercy School of Nursing.
The long tail contains 2,698 incidents across 746 other reporting campuses. That base, rather than the podium, carries the national figure.
| # | Institution | State | Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Iowa Iowa City | IA | 64 |
| 2 | Johns Hopkins University Baltimore | MD | 61 |
| 3 | UPMC Mercy School of Nursing Pittsburgh | PA | 46 |
| 4 | University of California-Berkeley Berkeley | CA | 44 |
| 5 | Texas A&M University-College Station College Station | TX | 42 |
| 6 | University of Dayton Dayton | OH | 41 |
| 7 | Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe | AZ | 32 |
| 8 | Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science Rochester | MN | 31 |
| 9 | University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison | WI | 30 |
| 10 | University of Kentucky Lexington | KY | 29 |
| 11 | Bowie State University Bowie | MD | 27 |
| 12 | Delaware State University Dover | DE | 27 |
| 13 | Stanford University Stanford | CA | 26 |
| 14 | Texas State University San Marcos | TX | 25 |
| 15 | University of Virginia-Main Campus Charlottesville | VA | 24 |
| 16 | Langston University Langston | OK | 24 |
| 17 | University of New Mexico-Main Campus Albuquerque | NM | 23 |
| 18 | Michigan State University East Lansing | MI | 23 |
| 19 | Indiana University-Indianapolis Indianapolis | IN | 23 |
| 20 | University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles | CA | 23 |