AL
Columbia Southern University
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
Orange Beach, AL · Clery Act 2024 · Private For-Profit
Columbia Southern University
Columbia Southern University reported zero incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section for 2022–2024. Other Clery tables can still contain reports, and zero here does not mean no risk.
- 0.00
- Incidents / 1k students
- #17
- AL rank
- 17,763
- Enrolled students
0.00 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Columbia Southern University reported zero 2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents in the score categories (0.00 per 1,000). Zero in those categories is not a safety proof, other Clery tables and unreported harm can still exist, and zero-report campuses are left unranked against each other.
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- incidents / 1,000 students
- 0.00
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 0
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 450933 · Columbia Southern University 0.00/1k score rate
RATE-ZERO · RANK-UNK · ST-MID · BELOW-PEER · ZERO-FILED · TREND-FLAT · CAT-NONE · ENR-MID · FIRE-NONE
- RATE-ZERO 0.00/1k
- RANK-UNK Nat rank n/a
- ST-MID #17 in state
- BELOW-PEER Mt San Jacinto Community · 0.17 back
- ZERO-FILED Zero filed
- TREND-FLAT Flat
- CAT-NONE No incidents
- ENR-MID 17,763
- FIRE-NONE No res filing
Nearest enrollment peer: Mt San Jacinto Community College District (+0.17/1k)
Columbia Southern University sheet RATE-ZERO · RANK-UNK · ST-MID · BELOW-PEER · ZERO-FILED · TREND-FLAT · CAT-NONE · ENR-MID · FIRE-NONE · peer Mt San Jacinto Community College District. 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-ZERO · RANK-UNK · ST-MID · BELOW-PEER · ZERO-FILED · TREND-FLAT · CAT-NONE · ENR-MID · FIRE-NONE. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is Mt San Jacinto Community College District (+0.17/1k). Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Columbia Southern University reported zero 2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents in the score categories (0.00 per 1,000). Zero in those categories is not a safety proof, other Clery tables and unreported harm can still exist, and zero-report campuses are left unranked against each other.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Columbia Southern University
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Columbia on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- Columbia Southern University · this campus · lowest 0
Columbia Southern University — this campus · lowest
0 per 1,000 students
- Mt San Jacinto Community · near 0.17
Mt San Jacinto Community College District — near
0.17 per 1,000 students
- Cuyahoga Community College District · near 0.67
Cuyahoga Community College District — near
0.67 per 1,000 students
- Santa Rosa Junior College · near 0.73
Santa Rosa Junior College — near
0.73 per 1,000 students
- Lamar University · highest peer
Lamar University — highest peer
2.48 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Columbia Southern University's 0.00/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Columbia Southern University was unchanged from 0 to 0 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 32 AL 4-year peers in this comparison, Columbia Southern University is larger than 90% and safer-reporting than 68% - the larger, safer-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 94, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 10
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 87, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 29
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 84, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 81, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 32
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 77, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 74, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 48
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 71, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 16
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 68, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 52
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 65, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 58
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 61, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 45
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 58, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 55, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 39
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 52, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 65
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 48, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 68
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 45, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 68
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 42, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 68
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 97, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 23
- Point 18: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 39, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 68
- Point 19: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 35, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 26
- Point 20: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 32, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 21: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 29, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 6
- Point 22: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 26, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 55
- Point 23: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 23, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 68
- Point 24: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 19, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 13
- Point 25: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 16, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
- Point 26: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 13, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 68
- Point 27: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 10, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 68
- Point 28: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 6, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 68
- Point 29: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 3, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 68
- Point 30: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 68
- Point 31: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 35
- Columbia Southern University: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 90, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 68
Read the chart as a table
| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huntsville Bible College | 98 | 0.00 | 0 | 68 |
| Heritage Christian University | 178 | 0.00 | 3 | 68 |
| South University-Montgomery | 303 | 0.00 | 6 | 68 |
| United States Sports University | 367 | 0.00 | 10 | 68 |
| Herzing University-Birmingham | 444 | 0.00 | 13 | 68 |
| Stillman College | 731 | 13.68 | 16 | 0 |
| Talladega College | 760 | 6.58 | 19 | 13 |
| Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine | 778 | 0.00 | 23 | 68 |
| Huntingdon College | 892 | 1.12 | 26 | 55 |
| Spring Hill College | 919 | 13.06 | 29 | 6 |
| Miles College | 1,180 | 13.56 | 32 | 3 |
| Columbia Southern University (this campus) | 17,763 | 0.00 | 90 | 68 |
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.
Enrollment scale
How campus size shapes the safety figures
With 17,763 enrolled students, Columbia Southern University is the 246th largest of the 5,585 institutions in this dataset with a reported enrollment, ahead of 5,339 of them. Closest same-state same-level scored peers by enrollment: University of Alabama at Birmingham (9.66/1k); University of South Alabama (3.21/1k); Troy University (0.37/1k); University of North Alabama (3.04/1k); Jacksonville State University (2.61/1k); University of Alabama in Huntsville (1.87/1k); Alabama A & M University (5.62/1k); University of West Alabama (1.17/1k). The score above normalizes 2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 students, so compare it with similarly sized campuses instead of treating a higher raw count as evidence that a campus is less safe (Lamar University is the nearest similar-enrollment comparison on this profile).
Crime Statistics by Year
Columbia Southern University recorded zero on-campus Criminal Offenses incidents in every Clery category across 2022–2024. Enrollment peer in this dataset: Lamar University.
Source: US Dept of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey. Zero-filled category grids are omitted when every cell is zero (progressive surface); other Clery tables remain below when present
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 |
Columbia Southern University 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).
TX
Lamar University
2.48 incidents / 1,000 students
OH
Cuyahoga Community College District
0.67 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where Columbia Southern University sits on price and outcomes
At $14,580, Columbia Southern University's reported average net price is cheaper than 48% among 65 Alabama colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $15,258.
- $14,580
- average net price
- $15,258
- Alabama median
- 2.6×
- six-year earnings to median debt
- $4,495
- reported income-bracket spread
Net price moves with income here, but not sharply: $12,913 for families reporting under $30,000 against $17,408 above $110,000, a difference of $4,495. Aid narrows the gap without closing it, so the $14,580 average sits reasonably close to what most brackets report.
Median reported earnings six years after entry are $55,140, roughly 3.8 times a year of net price. That is a workable ratio, though it says nothing about how long the programme takes to finish.
Average net price reflects grant and scholarship aid for aided students, not a personal offer. Earnings cover former students who received federal aid; neither measure predicts an individual's outcome.
Academic & Financial Profile
Tuition & Costs
- In-State Tuition
- $6,760
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $6,760
- Avg Net Price
- $14,580
- Median Debt
- $21,339
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 24%
Outcomes
- 4-Year Graduation Rate
- 35%
- Retention Rate
- 71%
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $55,140
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $63,534
- Loan Repayment (3yr)
- 59%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 530 similar institutions by enrollment size.
Lamar University
Beaumont, TX · 17,772 enrolled
Safety Score 2.48
Cuyahoga Community College District
Cleveland, OH · 17,840 enrolled
Safety Score 0.67
Santa Rosa Junior College
Santa Rosa, CA · 17,854 enrolled
Safety Score 0.73
Mt San Jacinto Community College District
San Jacinto, CA · 17,627 enrolled
Safety Score 0.17
Bowling Green State University-Main Campus
Bowling Green, OH · 17,594 enrolled
Safety Score 1.14
Nationwide campuses with similar scale or Clery rate
Two Clery-derived peer sets for Columbia Southern University, both outside AL so the neighborhoods are not state containment (Similar Institutions and national-rank neighbors above stay enrollment- or rank-based).
Similar enrollment (nationwide)
Lamar University
Beaumont, TX · 17,772 enrolled
Safety score 2.48
Bowling Green State University-Main Campus
Bowling Green, OH · 17,594 enrolled
Safety score 1.14
University at Albany
Albany, NY · 17,560 enrolled
Safety score 5.24
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, NC · 18,012 enrolled
Safety score 5.66
Duke University
Durham, NC · 17,499 enrolled
Safety score 7.83
Rio Hondo College
Whittier, CA · 17,441 enrolled
Safety score 0.17
Tarleton State University
Stephenville, TX · 17,433 enrolled
Safety score 1.15
Loyola University Chicago
Chicago, IL · 17,384 enrolled
Safety score 2.36
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Columbia Southern University safe?
Columbia Southern University has a safety score of 0.00 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students). It filed zero 2024 score-category incidents, so it is left unranked against other zeros rather than ordered by invention; same-state same-level campuses on file include University of Alabama at Birmingham (9.66/1k); University of South Alabama (3.21/1k); Troy University (0.37/1k); University of North Alabama (3.04/1k); Jacksonville State University (2.61/1k); University of Alabama in Huntsville (1.87/1k); Alabama A & M University (5.62/1k); University of West Alabama (1.17/1k).
What crimes are reported at Columbia Southern University?
None in the Criminal Offenses section. Columbia Southern University reported zero in every category in that section for calendar year 2024. VAWA, arrests, disciplinary referrals, and fire records are separate tables.
How does Columbia Southern University compare to similar schools?
Columbia Southern University reports 100% fewer 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 than Lamar University. Scored similar-enrollment peers on this page: Lamar University (2.48/1k); Cuyahoga Community College District (0.67/1k); Santa Rosa Junior College (0.73/1k); Mt San Jacinto Community College District (0.17/1k); Bowling Green State University-Main Campus (1.14/1k). Same-state same-level set: University of Alabama at Birmingham (9.66/1k); University of South Alabama (3.21/1k); Troy University (0.37/1k); University of North Alabama (3.04/1k); Jacksonville State University (2.61/1k); University of Alabama in Huntsville (1.87/1k); Alabama A & M University (5.62/1k); University of West Alabama (1.17/1k).
Does Columbia Southern University have fire safety data?
Columbia Southern University has no on-campus residential fire filing in this Clery release.
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.
PlainCampus is for informational purposes only and does not constitute safety, security, legal, or enrollment advice; the data describes reported on-campus activity, it is not a complete picture of safety at any campus and cannot predict any individual student's experience. See our appropriate use guidance.
PlainCampus is for informational purposes only and does not constitute safety, security, legal, or enrollment advice.