Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter on Campus

Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter is a Clery Act reportable offense category — intentional killing of one person by another.. Across the 3-year reporting window from 2021 to 2023, US colleges and universities cumulatively reported 63 murder / non-negligent manslaughter incidents on-campus. The most recent year on record (2023) shows 27 incidents across 5,673 reporting institutions, an average of 0.00 per reporting school. Year-over-year, murder / non-negligent manslaughter reporting rose by 17.4% — a signal that should be read alongside reporting-practice changes, not only real-world incidence.

The peak year for murder / non-negligent manslaughter reporting was 2023 with 27 incidents. An average of 5,673 institutions submitted data each year across the reporting window. The single institution with the most reported murder / non-negligent manslaughter incidents in 2023 is University of Nevada-Las Vegas in Las Vegas, NV with 3 incidents (11% of the national total). Schools reporting zero incidents are not automatically safer than high-count schools — the Clery Act compliance rate, reporting culture, campus enrollment, and the presence of mandatory reporter training all shape what reaches the federal dataset.

The figures on this page cover on-campus incidents only — additional categories in the Clery Act dataset cover non-campus buildings, public property adjacent to campus, and residential facilities separately. When comparing institutions, always anchor the count against enrollment size: a research university with 40,000 students and 30 reported incidents has a dramatically lower per-capita rate than a 2,000-student college with 10 reported incidents. The tables below rank institutions by raw incident count rather than by per-student rate, so treat top-of-list schools as starting points for comparison rather than unsafe-campus verdicts. Jump into each school's detail page to see enrollment, safety score, and peer comparisons side by side.