National ranking · Clery Act · absolute counts

Campuses With the Most On-Campus Crime Reports

Ranked by total on-campus Clery Act incident count. Large universities naturally report more in absolute terms — for a size-fair comparison, use the per-1,000-student safety rankings.

897
Most reports (1 campus)
50
Campuses listed
76,633
Texas A enrolled
Context matters: absolute counts track enrollment, not danger per student. A 50,000-student university with 200 reports is safer per capita than a 3,000-student college with 60. For a size-fair view, see the per-1,000-student safety rankings.

The list in one line

These 50 large campuses logged 15,833 total on-campus Clery incidents — led by Texas A & M University-College Station with 897, reflecting its 76,633-student scale as much as its risk.

897
most reports — Texas A & M University-College Station
15,833
incidents across the top 50
11.71
Texas per-1,000 rate

Total reports are cumulative on-campus Clery Act disclosures. Always read absolute counts alongside enrollment and the per-1,000-student safety score.

Top 12 campuses by total on-campus reports

Cumulative on-campus Clery Act incidents — larger enrollment drives larger absolute counts

total reports
Source U.S. Department of Education — Campus Safety & Security Survey (Clery Act) As of 2023

The full top 50

# Campus Total reportsPer 1k
1 Texas A & M University-College Station COLLEGE STATION, TX · 76,633 students 897 11.71
2 University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA · 45,699 students 748 16.37
3 Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS, IN · 25,497 students 720 28.24
4 Ohio State University-Main Campus COLUMBUS, OH · 60,046 students 711 11.84
5 Grand Canyon University PHOENIX, AZ · 107,563 students 621 5.77
6 University of California-San Diego La Jolla, CA · 42,376 students 595 14.04
7 University of Utah SALT LAKE CITY, UT · 35,260 students 564 16.00
8 University of California-Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, CA · 46,678 students 544 11.65
9 Villanova University VILLANOVA, PA · 10,111 students 503 49.75
10 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA · 47,147 students 426 9.04
11 University of California-Davis DAVIS, CA · 39,707 students 404 10.17
12 Stanford University STANFORD, CA · 18,446 students 373 20.22
13 University of Florida Gainesville, FL · 54,814 students 346 6.31
14 University of New Mexico-Main Campus ALBUQUERQUE, NM · 22,700 students 341 15.02
15 University of Washington-Seattle Campus SEATTLE, WA · 55,620 students 341 6.13
16 Arizona State University Campus Immersion TEMPE, AZ · 79,593 students 338 4.25
17 University of Iowa IOWA CITY, IA · 30,042 students 301 10.02
18 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL · 56,563 students 295 5.22
19 University of California-Irvine IRVINE, CA · 36,582 students 280 7.65
20 University of California-Riverside Riverside, CA · 26,426 students 266 10.07
21 Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA · 28,238 students 262 9.28
22 University of Houston HOUSTON, TX · 46,676 students 258 5.53
23 Yale University NEW HAVEN, CT · 15,081 students 254 16.84
24 University of Virginia-Main Campus CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA · 25,924 students 249 9.61
25 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities MINNEAPOLIS, MN · 54,890 students 242 4.41
26 University of Maryland-College Park COLLEGE PARK, MD · 40,813 students 235 5.76
27 Michigan State University EAST LANSING, MI · 51,316 students 235 4.58
28 Indiana University-Bloomington BLOOMINGTON, IN · 47,527 students 233 4.90
29 Texas State University SAN MARCOS, TX · 38,722 students 228 5.89
30 Emory University ATLANTA, GA · 15,046 students 221 14.69
31 Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College BATON ROUGE, LA · 39,418 students 220 5.58
32 University of Kentucky LEXINGTON, KY · 32,703 students 216 6.60
33 University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO · 41,432 students 214 5.17
34 Harvard University Cambridge, MA · 30,386 students 212 6.98
35 University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus DENVER, CO · 23,409 students 211 9.01
36 University of Illinois Chicago Chicago, IL · 33,522 students 204 6.09
37 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor ANN ARBOR, MI · 52,065 students 201 3.86
38 Texas Tech University LUBBOCK, TX · 40,773 students 197 4.83
39 University of California-Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, CA · 26,068 students 196 7.52
40 Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, MD · 30,362 students 187 6.16
41 Prairie View A & M University Prairie View, TX · 9,517 students 186 19.54
42 Auburn University Auburn, AL · 33,015 students 184 5.57
43 Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus UNIVERSITY PARK, PA · 50,399 students 182 3.61
44 University of Louisville Louisville, KY · 22,139 students 176 7.95
45 California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA · 22,485 students 174 7.74
46 University of California-San Francisco San Francisco, CA · 3,126 students 171 54.70
47 University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN · 13,174 students 170 12.90
48 Cornell University ITHACA, NY · 26,264 students 169 6.43
49 University of Kansas Lawrence, KS · 28,406 students 168 5.91
50 Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL · 15,504 students 164 10.58

Only campuses with enrollment ≥ 2,000 and reported incident totals are included. Total reports reflect cumulative on-campus Clery Act disclosures across reported years.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) Campus Safety and Security Survey U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) Campus Safety and Security Survey