National ranking · Clery Act 2024 · absolute counts

Campuses With the Most On-Campus Crime Reports

Ranked by 2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses + VAWA incident count (the same score-year cohort as the per-1,000 safety rate). Large universities naturally report more in absolute terms; for a size-fair comparison, use the per-1,000-student safety rankings.

962
Most reports (1 campus)
50
Campuses listed
78,321
Texas A&M enrolled

Texas A&M University-College Station reports the most on-campus Clery incidents among large U.S. campuses on this list

According to U.S. Department of Education Clery Act filings for 2024, Texas A&M University-College Station records 962 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents, the highest absolute total among campuses with at least 2,000 students in this ranking. The 50 campuses here together report 16,764 2024 incidents. Absolute counts track enrollment scale; for a size-fair read use the per-1,000 safest-campus ranking.

Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey

Most reports (1 campus)
962
Incidents across this top 50
16,764
Leader enrollment
78,321
Campuses listed
50
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 16,764 total on-campus Clery incidents, led by Texas A&M University-College Station with 962, reflecting its 78,321-student scale as much as its risk.

962
most reports - Texas A&M University-College Station
16,764
incidents across the top 50
12.28
Texas per-1,000 rate

2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses + VAWA totals (same population as the safety score). Always read absolute counts alongside enrollment and the per-1,000-student safety score.

Absolute incident counts track enrollment far more than danger. Under the Jeanne Clery Act, in force since November 1990, every Title IV college must disclose on-campus crime, so a 40,000-student university will almost always out-report a 1,200-student college in raw totals, regardless of how safe each campus actually is. According to the U.S. Department of Education's Campus Safety and Security Survey for the 2024 reporting year (the same year behind the incident totals and the per-1,000 safety score on this site), the largest institutions dominate this list on volume alone, then fall back toward the middle once their figures are expressed per 1,000 enrolled students. That per-1,000 rate, not the raw count, is the fair comparison, see the methodology for exactly how it is derived, and the safest-campuses ranking for the size-adjusted view.

Top 12 campuses by 2024 on-campus reports

2024 Criminal Offenses + VAWA; larger enrollment drives larger absolute counts

total reports
Source U.S. Department of Education, Campus Safety & Security Survey (Clery Act) As of 2024

The full top 50

50
Yale UniversityNew Haven, CT · 15,564 students
Total reports
178
Per 1k
11.44
#CampusTotal reportsPer 1k
1Texas A&M University-College StationCollege Station, TX · 78,321 students962100% of the leader · rank #112.28
2Indiana University-IndianapolisIndianapolis, IN · 22,534 students83286% of the leader · rank #236.92
3University of California-BerkeleyBerkeley, CA · 45,882 students65168% of the leader · rank #314.19
4University of California-DavisDavis, CA · 40,065 students62265% of the leader · rank #415.52
5University of California-San DiegoLa Jolla, CA · 44,256 students59762% of the leader · rank #513.49
6University of UtahSalt Lake City, UT · 36,894 students55458% of the leader · rank #615.02
7University of California-RiversideRiverside, CA · 26,384 students50853% of the leader · rank #719.25
8University of FloridaGainesville, FL · 56,311 students47449% of the leader · rank #88.42
9University of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles, CA · 46,566 students44947% of the leader · rank #99.64
10University of California-Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA · 47,335 students44446% of the leader · rank #109.38
11Grand Canyon UniversityPhoenix, AZ · 113,257 students42344% of the leader · rank #113.73
12Arizona State University Campus ImmersionTempe, AZ · 79,818 students41643% of the leader · rank #125.21
13Stanford UniversityStanford, CA · 18,625 students39641% of the leader · rank #1321.26
14University of California-IrvineIrvine, CA · 37,297 students37839% of the leader · rank #1410.13
15University of Virginia-Main CampusCharlottesville, VA · 26,409 students36338% of the leader · rank #1513.75
16Ohio State University-Main CampusColumbus, OH · 61,443 students36338% of the leader · rank #165.91
17University of Maryland-College ParkCollege Park, MD · 41,725 students35837% of the leader · rank #178.58
18University of Maryland Global CampusAdelphi, MD · 63,012 students35837% of the leader · rank #185.68
19Indiana University-BloomingtonBloomington, IN · 48,424 students31633% of the leader · rank #196.53
20University of Washington-Seattle CampusSeattle, WA · 56,997 students31433% of the leader · rank #205.51
21Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical CollegeBaton Rouge, LA · 41,705 students30832% of the leader · rank #217.39
22University of California-Santa BarbaraSanta Barbara, CA · 26,133 students30632% of the leader · rank #2211.71
23Texas State UniversitySan Marcos, TX · 40,674 students29731% of the leader · rank #237.30
24University of KentuckyLexington, KY · 34,709 students29631% of the leader · rank #248.53
25University of IowaIowa City, IA · 30,779 students29531% of the leader · rank #259.58
26Michigan State UniversityEast Lansing, MI · 52,089 students27729% of the leader · rank #265.32
27University of HoustonHouston, TX · 47,980 students26628% of the leader · rank #275.54
28University of New Mexico-Main CampusAlbuquerque, NM · 23,124 students26427% of the leader · rank #2811.42
29University of KansasLawrence, KS · 29,792 students25527% of the leader · rank #298.56
30University of Colorado BoulderBoulder, CO · 38,799 students25126% of the leader · rank #306.47
31University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignChampaign, IL · 59,238 students24826% of the leader · rank #314.19
32Prairie View A & M UniversityPrairie View, TX · 9,922 students24125% of the leader · rank #3224.29
33University of Illinois ChicagoChicago, IL · 33,906 students23324% of the leader · rank #336.87
34Northern Arizona UniversityFlagstaff, AZ · 28,467 students23124% of the leader · rank #348.11
35Harvard UniversityCambridge, MA · 30,259 students23124% of the leader · rank #357.63
36University of South FloridaTampa, FL · 49,622 students23024% of the leader · rank #364.63
37Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, MD · 30,210 students22323% of the leader · rank #377.38
38Pennsylvania State University-Main CampusUniversity Park, PA · 50,737 students21422% of the leader · rank #384.22
39Purdue University-Main CampusWest Lafayette, IN · 58,658 students20621% of the leader · rank #393.51
40University of Alabama at BirminghamBirmingham, AL · 20,905 students20221% of the leader · rank #409.66
41California State University-FresnoFresno, CA · 24,427 students20121% of the leader · rank #418.23
42Virginia Commonwealth UniversityRichmond, VA · 28,464 students19921% of the leader · rank #426.99
43University of Michigan-Ann ArborAnn Arbor, MI · 52,855 students19821% of the leader · rank #433.75
44University of ArizonaTucson, AZ · 56,365 students19821% of the leader · rank #443.51
45University of Minnesota-Twin CitiesMinneapolis, MN · 56,666 students19620% of the leader · rank #453.46
46University of Wisconsin-MadisonMadison, WI · 51,044 students19420% of the leader · rank #463.80
47University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA · 29,109 students18820% of the leader · rank #476.46
48Emory UniversityAtlanta, GA · 15,175 students18019% of the leader · rank #4811.86
49Columbia University in the City of New YorkNew York, NY · 35,173 students18019% of the leader · rank #495.12
50Yale UniversityNew Haven, CT · 15,564 students17819% of the leader · rank #5011.44

Only campuses with enrollment ≥ 2,000 and a positive 2024 Criminal Offenses + VAWA total are included. Totals are that single reporting year, not a sum across 2022–2024.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) Campus Safety and Security Survey 2024

Every figure on PlainCampus is rendered directly from federal Clery Act source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal Clery Act source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.

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