VA
Ascent College
36.14 incidents / 1,000 students
Gainesville, VA · Clery Act 2024 · Private Nonprofit
Ascent College
Across 2022–2024, Ascent College reported 3 incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section, and the yearly count rose over that span (largest filed category: Burglary). Nearby same-state same-level comparison: Appalachian College of Pharmacy.
- 36.14
- Incidents / 1k students
- 83
- Enrolled students
36.14 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Ascent College's 2024 score-category rate is 36.14 per 1,000. From 2023 to 2024, Burglary rose by 3 reported incidents, the largest category move on this profile. Same-state same-level scored peers: Appalachian College of Pharmacy (0.00/1k); Virginia Beach Theological Seminary (0.00/1k); DeVry University-Virginia (0.00/1k); Appalachian School of Law (0.00/1k); Union Presbyterian Seminary (6.29/1k); Lotus Professional College (0.00/1k); Centura College-Chesapeake (0.00/1k); Centra College (0.00/1k).
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- incidents / 1,000 students
- 36.14
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 3
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 458113 · Ascent College 36.14/1k score rate
RATE-HOT · RANK-UNK · ST-UNK · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-SMALL · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-NONE
- RATE-HOT 36.14/1k
- RANK-UNK Nat rank n/a
- ST-UNK State rank n/a
- ABOVE-PEER Hays Academy of Hair · +36.14
- ZERO-SMALL <500 enrolled
- TREND-UP ↑ trend
- CAT-LEAD Burglary
- ENR-SMALL 83
- FIRE-NONE No res filing
Nearest enrollment peer: Hays Academy of Hair Design (-36.14/1k)
Ascent College sheet RATE-HOT · RANK-UNK · ST-UNK · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-SMALL · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-NONE · peer Hays Academy of Hair Design. Codes from this campus OPE filing: score-category rate, national/state rank, named enrollment peer, zero posture, Criminal Offenses trend, lead category, enrollment band, fire filing. Not a moving recommendation.
Clery plate RATE-HOT · RANK-UNK · ST-UNK · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-SMALL · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-NONE. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is Hays Academy of Hair Design (-36.14/1k). Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Ascent College's 2024 score-category rate is 36.14 per 1,000. From 2023 to 2024, Burglary rose by 3 reported incidents, the largest category move on this profile. Same-state same-level scored peers: Appalachian College of Pharmacy (0.00/1k); Virginia Beach Theological Seminary (0.00/1k); DeVry University-Virginia (0.00/1k); Appalachian School of Law (0.00/1k); Union Presbyterian Seminary (6.29/1k); Lotus Professional College (0.00/1k); Centura College-Chesapeake (0.00/1k); Centra College (0.00/1k).
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Ascent College
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Ascent on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- Hays Academy of Hair · lowest peer 0
Hays Academy of Hair Design — lowest peer
0 per 1,000 students
- The Salon Professional Academy-Altoona · near 0
The Salon Professional Academy-Altoona — near
0 per 1,000 students
- Dutchess BOCES-Practical Nursing Program · near 0
Dutchess BOCES-Practical Nursing Program — near
0 per 1,000 students
- Ascent College · this campus · highest
Ascent College — this campus · highest
36.14 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Ascent College's 36.14/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Ascent College increased from 0 to 3 reported on-campus incidents between the 2023 and 2024 reporting years in the U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey.
This is a change in reported incidents, not a measure of individual safety. Enrollment, reporting practice, and category coverage can affect the count.
See national reporting-year changesSignature insight · size does not equal danger
Campus size vs reported safety rate
Among 37 VA 4-year peers in this comparison, Ascent College is larger than 6% and safer-reporting than 0% - the smaller, higher-reporting quadrant. Axes are within-sample percentiles so outliers share the same frame; a higher safety percentile means a lower Clery incidents-per-1,000 rate.
Read the chart as text
- Point 1: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 8, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 3, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 11, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 14, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 17
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 17, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 19, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 22, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 25, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 28, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 31, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 33, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 36, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 39, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 42, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 44, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 47, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 18: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 50, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 19: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 20: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 56, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 21: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 58, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 22: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 61, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 23: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 64, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 24: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 67, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 6
- Point 25: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 69, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 31
- Point 26: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 72, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 22
- Point 27: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 75, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 39
- Point 28: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 78, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 29: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 81, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 25
- Point 30: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 83, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 28
- Point 31: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 86, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 32: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 89, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 33: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 92, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 11
- Point 34: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 94, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 14
- Point 35: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 97, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 36
- Point 36: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 8
- Ascent College: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 6, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
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| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeVry University-Virginia | 19 | 0.00 | 0 | 44 |
| Virginia Beach Theological Seminary | 33 | 0.00 | 3 | 44 |
| Ascent College (this campus) | 83 | 36.14 | 6 | 0 |
| Appalachian College of Pharmacy | 113 | 0.00 | 8 | 44 |
| Appalachian School of Law | 154 | 0.00 | 11 | 44 |
| Union Presbyterian Seminary | 159 | 6.29 | 14 | 17 |
| Lotus Professional College | 178 | 0.00 | 17 | 44 |
| Centura College-Chesapeake | 191 | 0.00 | 19 | 44 |
| Centra College | 219 | 0.00 | 22 | 44 |
| South University-Virginia Beach | 258 | 0.00 | 25 | 44 |
| Sentara College of Health Sciences | 312 | 0.00 | 28 | 44 |
| Arizona College of Nursing-Falls Church | 348 | 0.00 | 31 | 44 |
Sample of 12 campuses from the plot (sorted by enrollment). Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey + IPEDS enrollment. Rate = on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 students; lower is safer-reporting, not a personal-risk forecast.
What changed between 2023 and 2024
Reported on-campus incidents at Ascent College rose from 0 to 3. The increase shows up in Burglary (0 to 3).
This describes reported incidents, not crime. Clery counts move with reporting policy, awareness campaigns and how a campus staffs its security authorities, so a rise can reflect better capture of reports and a fall can reflect worse capture. One year of movement at a single campus is not a trend.
What actually gets reported at Ascent College
Across 3 reporting years, the only Clery Act category with a recorded on-campus incident here is Burglary.
The remaining 10 categories were reported with no on-campus incidents, among them Aggravated Assault, Arson, Fondling and Incest. Under the Clery Act that zero is an affirmative report that nothing in the category occurred, not an absence of data, which is why the table below lists those rows rather than dropping them.
Counts describe incidents reported under the Clery Act for the on-campus geography. Reporting practice varies between institutions, so counts are not a direct measure of relative safety.
Crime Statistics by Year
11 categories 3 reporting years on-campus onlyAscent College: Criminal Offenses by year
Rising
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| Period | On-campus incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 |
| 2024 | 3 |
| Crime Type | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burglary | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fondling | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Incest | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Negligent Manslaughter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Statutory Rape | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Source: US Dept of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey. Table figures show the Criminal Offenses section; other Clery tables are separate
Arrests & Disciplinary Actions
9 category-year records| Category | Year | Arrests | Discipline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
Ascent College vs peer institutions
Side-by-side safety scores for 3 peers of similar enrollment
Scores are $2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students (lower is fewer in those categories).
KS
Hays Academy of Hair Design
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
PA
The Salon Professional Academy-Altoona
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
Academic & Financial Profile
Tuition & Costs
- In-State Tuition
- $8,550
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $8,550
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 27%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 1,194 similar institutions by enrollment size.
Hays Academy of Hair Design
Hays, KS · 83 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
The Salon Professional Academy-Altoona
Altoona, PA · 83 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Dutchess BOCES-Practical Nursing Program
Poughkeepsie, NY · 83 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
CALC Institute of Technology
Alton, IL · 83 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Empire Beauty School-North Hills
Pittsburgh, PA · 83 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Nationwide campuses with similar scale or Clery rate
Two Clery-derived peer sets for Ascent College, both outside VA so the neighborhoods are not state containment (Similar Institutions and national-rank neighbors above stay enrollment- or rank-based).
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
Langston University
Langston, OK · 1,937 enrolled
Safety score 36.14
Indiana University-Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN · 22,534 enrolled
Safety score 36.92
United Tribes Technical College
Bismarck, ND · 576 enrolled
Safety score 34.72
Pomona College
Claremont, CA · 1,700 enrolled
Safety score 34.71
Hobart William Smith Colleges
Geneva, NY · 1,841 enrolled
Safety score 34.22
Reed College
Portland, OR · 1,358 enrolled
Safety score 38.29
Lycoming College
Williamsport, PA · 1,012 enrolled
Safety score 33.60
Shaw University
Raleigh, NC · 964 enrolled
Safety score 31.12
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Ascent College safe?
Ascent College has a safety score of 36.14 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students). With 83 enrolled students it sits under the 500-student ranking cutoff; a size peer on file is Hays Academy of Hair Design. Same-state same-level set: Appalachian College of Pharmacy (0.00/1k); Virginia Beach Theological Seminary (0.00/1k); DeVry University-Virginia (0.00/1k); Appalachian School of Law (0.00/1k); Union Presbyterian Seminary (6.29/1k); Lotus Professional College (0.00/1k); Centura College-Chesapeake (0.00/1k); Centra College (0.00/1k).
What crimes are reported at Ascent College?
For calendar year 2024, Ascent College reported Burglary (3) in the Criminal Offenses section. Every other category in that section was reported at zero; other Clery tables are separate.
How does Ascent College compare to similar schools?
A similar-enrollment comparison point is Hays Academy of Hair Design at 0.00 score-category incidents per 1,000 in VA; same-state same-level scored peers include Appalachian College of Pharmacy (0.00/1k); Virginia Beach Theological Seminary (0.00/1k); DeVry University-Virginia (0.00/1k); Appalachian School of Law (0.00/1k); Union Presbyterian Seminary (6.29/1k); Lotus Professional College (0.00/1k); Centura College-Chesapeake (0.00/1k); Centra College (0.00/1k).
Does Ascent College have fire safety data?
Ascent College has no on-campus residential fire filing in this Clery release.
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