Dating Violence on campus

The peak year for dating violence reporting was 2023 with 4,239 incidents. An average of 902 institutions recorded at least one such incident each year across the reporting window. The single institution with the most reported dating violence incidents in 2024 is University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT with 122 incidents (3% of the national total). 4,672 of the 5,585 surveyed institutions (83.7%) recorded no dating violence at all in 2024, so a zero is the ordinary case for this offence rather than a distinguishing result. With roughly 84 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 VAWA reported in 2024, dating violence is the 2nd most-reported of 3 offences, at 23.6% of the group's 17,655 incidents. Reporting is widely distributed: the single highest-reporting institution accounts for 3% of the 2024 national total, so no one campus drives this figure. No campus accounts for more than 3% 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.