Rape on campus

The peak year for rape reporting was 2022 with 6,154 incidents. An average of 1,075 institutions recorded at least one such incident each year across the reporting window. The single institution with the most reported rape incidents in 2024 is University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT with 140 incidents (3% of the national total). 4,523 of the 5,585 surveyed institutions (81%) recorded no rape at all in 2024, so a zero is the ordinary case for this offence rather than a distinguishing result. That still leaves this among the more widely reported offences on the survey: a reporting campus is common enough that a zero says less about the campus than about how consistently it identifies and records rape.

Within criminal offenses reported in 2024, rape is the 3rd most-reported of 11 offences, at 16.2% of the group's 33,224 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.