MA
Dean College
8.24 incidents / 1,000 students
Franklin, MA · Clery Act 2024 · Private Nonprofit
Dean College
Across 2022–2024, Dean College reported 36 incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section, and the yearly count fell over that span (largest filed category: Rape). Nearby same-state same-level comparison: New England Law-Boston.
- 8.24
- Incidents / 1k students
- #1,861
- Rank of 2,072
- #80
- MA rank
- 1,092
- Enrolled students
8.24 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Dean College reports 8.24 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 29% above Heidelberg University. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Heidelberg University (5.50/1k); Naropa University (3.66/1k); The College of Idaho (11.93/1k); Cornell College (4.57/1k); Presbyterian College (6.39/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes New England Law-Boston (0.00/1k); Anna Maria College (4.16/1k); William James College (0.00/1k); College of Our Lady of the Elms (0.00/1k); Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (6.70/1k); Boston Architectural College (0.00/1k); The New England Conservatory of Music (5.86/1k); Hampshire College (4.74/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Rape.
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- incidents / 1,000 students
- 8.24
- of 2,072 ranked nationally
- #1,861
- report fewer incidents than this campus
- 90%
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 7
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 165574 · Dean College 8.24/1k score rate · #1,861/2,072
RATE-HOT · RANK-BOTTOM · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO
- RATE-HOT 8.24/1k
- RANK-BOTTOM #1,861/2,072
- ST-MID #80 in state
- ABOVE-PEER Presbyterian College · +1.85
- ZERO-NONE Scored
- TREND-DOWN ↓ 63%
- CAT-LEAD Rape
- ENR-SMALL 1,092
- FIRE-ZERO 0 fires filed
Nearest enrollment peer: Presbyterian College (-1.85/1k)
Dean College sheet RATE-HOT · RANK-BOTTOM · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO · peer Presbyterian College. 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-BOTTOM · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is Presbyterian College (-1.85/1k). National rank #1,861 of 2,072 scored campuses. Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Dean College reports 8.24 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 29% above Heidelberg University. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Heidelberg University (5.50/1k); Naropa University (3.66/1k); The College of Idaho (11.93/1k); Cornell College (4.57/1k); Presbyterian College (6.39/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes New England Law-Boston (0.00/1k); Anna Maria College (4.16/1k); William James College (0.00/1k); College of Our Lady of the Elms (0.00/1k); Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (6.70/1k); Boston Architectural College (0.00/1k); The New England Conservatory of Music (5.86/1k); Hampshire College (4.74/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Rape.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Dean College
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Dean on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- Naropa University · lowest peer 3.66
Naropa University — lowest peer
3.66 per 1,000 students
- Cornell College · near 4.57
Cornell College — near
4.57 per 1,000 students
- Heidelberg University · near
Heidelberg University — near
5.5 per 1,000 students
- Presbyterian College · near
Presbyterian College — near
6.39 per 1,000 students
- Dean College · this campus
Dean College — this campus
8.24 per 1,000 students
- The College of Idaho · highest peer
The College of Idaho — highest peer
11.93 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Dean College's 8.24/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Dean College decreased from 10 to 7 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 MA 4-year peers in this comparison, Dean College is larger than 44% and safer-reporting than 6% - 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.
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- Point 1: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 47, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 50, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 31
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 42, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 39, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 14
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 33, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 33, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 31, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 22
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 56, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 58, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 28
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 28, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 61, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 64, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 67, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 39
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 69, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 25, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 72, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 36
- Point 18: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 22, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 19: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 75, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 20: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 19, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 21: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 78, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 11
- Point 22: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 17, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 23: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 81, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 24: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 14, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 25: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 11, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 26: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 8, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 27: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 83, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 28: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 6, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 29: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 86, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 30: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 89, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 31: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 92, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 25
- Point 32: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 94, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 33: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 3, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 34: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 35: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 97, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 17
- Point 36: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 97, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 8
- Dean College: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 44, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 6
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| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hebrew College | 163 | 0.00 | 0 | 56 |
| Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis Inc | 169 | 0.00 | 3 | 56 |
| Montserrat College of Art | 227 | 0.00 | 6 | 56 |
| Massachusetts School of Law | 273 | 0.00 | 8 | 56 |
| Hellenic College-Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology | 274 | 0.00 | 11 | 56 |
| Longy School of Music of Bard College | 317 | 0.00 | 14 | 56 |
| Springfield College-Regional, Online, and Continuing Education | 380 | 0.00 | 17 | 56 |
| Franklin W Olin College of Engineering | 405 | 2.47 | 19 | 47 |
| New England College of Optometry | 515 | 1.94 | 22 | 53 |
| Laboure College of Healthcare | 530 | 0.00 | 25 | 56 |
| Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology | 744 | 0.00 | 28 | 56 |
| Dean College (this campus) | 1,092 | 8.24 | 44 | 6 |
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 Dean College fell from 10 to 7 (-30%). The decrease shows up in Burglary (3 to 1) and Rape (7 to 6).
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 Dean College
Across 3 reporting years, on-campus incidents were recorded in 2 Clery Act categories here: Rape and Burglary. Rape accounts for most of them.
The remaining 9 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 onlyDean College: Criminal Offenses by year
Declining 63% (19 → 7 incidents)
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| Period | On-campus incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 19 |
| 2023 | 10 |
| 2024 | 7 |
| Crime Type | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rape | 6 | 7 | 7 |
| Burglary | 1 | 3 | 12 |
| 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 |
| 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
Fire Safety
| Year | Fires | Inj. | Deaths | Cat I | Cat II |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Arrests & Disciplinary Actions
9 category-year records| Category | Year | Arrests | Discipline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 2 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 22 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 11 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 69 |
| Weapons | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2022 | 0 | 2 |
| Liquor | 2022 | 0 | 45 |
| Weapons | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
Dean 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).
OH
Heidelberg University
5.50 incidents / 1,000 students
CO
Naropa University
3.66 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where Dean College sits on price and outcomes
At $30,684, Dean College's reported average net price is cheaper than 75% among 117 Massachusetts colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $24,402.
- $30,684
- average net price
- $24,402
- Massachusetts median
- 1.2×
- six-year earnings to median debt
- $7,322
- reported income-bracket spread
Net price moves with income here, but not sharply: $26,996 for families reporting under $30,000 against $34,318 above $110,000, a difference of $7,322. Aid narrows the gap without closing it, so the $30,684 average sits reasonably close to what most brackets report.
Median earnings six years after entry ($30,046) are less than one year of the reported net price. That is a thin margin, and it is the figure worth pressing the school on before enrolling.
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
- $46,526
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $46,526
- Avg Net Price
- $30,684
- Median Debt
- $25,000
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 34%
Admissions
- Acceptance Rate
- 74%
Outcomes
- 4-Year Graduation Rate
- 48%
- Retention Rate
- 68%
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $30,046
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $38,109
- Loan Repayment (3yr)
- 62%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 1,250 similar institutions by enrollment size.
Heidelberg University
Tiffin, OH · 1,091 enrolled
Safety Score 5.50
Naropa University
Boulder, CO · 1,094 enrolled
Safety Score 3.66
The College of Idaho
Caldwell, ID · 1,090 enrolled
Safety Score 11.93
Cornell College
Mount Vernon, IA · 1,094 enrolled
Safety Score 4.57
Presbyterian College
Clinton, SC · 1,095 enrolled
Safety Score 6.39
Closest by National Rank
Dean College (national rank #1861) sits near La Sierra University (#1862) and University of Northern Colorado (#1860) on the scored national list, nearest by rank, not by size or state.
Nationwide campuses with similar scale or Clery rate
Two Clery-derived peer sets for Dean College, both outside MA so the neighborhoods are not state containment (Similar Institutions and national-rank neighbors above stay enrollment- or rank-based).
Similar enrollment (nationwide)
Heidelberg University
Tiffin, OH · 1,091 enrolled
Safety score 5.50
Cornell College
Mount Vernon, IA · 1,094 enrolled
Safety score 4.57
Naropa University
Boulder, CO · 1,094 enrolled
Safety score 3.66
The College of Idaho
Caldwell, ID · 1,090 enrolled
Safety score 11.93
Presbyterian College
Clinton, SC · 1,095 enrolled
Safety score 6.39
South Texas College of Law Houston
Houston, TX · 1,089 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Mercy College of Ohio
Toledo, OH · 1,096 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Washington University of Science and Technology
Vienna, VA · 1,096 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
University of Northern Colorado
Greeley, CO · 8,869 enrolled
Safety score 8.23
California State University-Fresno
Fresno, CA · 24,427 enrolled
Safety score 8.23
La Sierra University
Riverside, CA · 1,574 enrolled
Safety score 8.26
Goshen College
Goshen, IN · 847 enrolled
Safety score 8.26
Quincy University
Quincy, IL · 1,210 enrolled
Safety score 8.26
Greensboro College
Greensboro, NC · 967 enrolled
Safety score 8.27
Morehouse School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA · 967 enrolled
Safety score 8.27
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ · 9,137 enrolled
Safety score 8.21
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Dean College safe?
Dean College has a safety score of 8.24 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students) and ranks #1,861 nationally out of 2,072 ranked institutions - nearest similar-enrollment comparison: Heidelberg University (5.50/1k). Same-state same-level set: New England Law-Boston (0.00/1k); Anna Maria College (4.16/1k); William James College (0.00/1k); College of Our Lady of the Elms (0.00/1k); Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (6.70/1k); Boston Architectural College (0.00/1k); The New England Conservatory of Music (5.86/1k); Hampshire College (4.74/1k).
What crimes are reported at Dean College?
For calendar year 2024, Dean College reported Rape (6) and Burglary (1) in the Criminal Offenses section. Every other category in that section was reported at zero; other Clery tables are separate.
How does Dean College compare to similar schools?
Dean College reports 29% more 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 than Heidelberg University. Scored similar-enrollment peers on this page: Heidelberg University (5.50/1k); Naropa University (3.66/1k); The College of Idaho (11.93/1k); Cornell College (4.57/1k); Presbyterian College (6.39/1k). Same-state same-level set: New England Law-Boston (0.00/1k); Anna Maria College (4.16/1k); William James College (0.00/1k); College of Our Lady of the Elms (0.00/1k); Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (6.70/1k); Boston Architectural College (0.00/1k); The New England Conservatory of Music (5.86/1k); Hampshire College (4.74/1k).
Does Dean College have fire safety data?
Yes. Dean College reports fire safety data for on-campus residential facilities, including total fires, injuries, deaths, and fire damage categories. No fires were reported in the most recent year.
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