OH
Lake Erie College
0.90 incidents / 1,000 students
Painesville, OH · Clery Act 2024 · Private Nonprofit
Lake Erie College
Across 2022–2024, Lake Erie College reported 8 incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section, with no net change between the first and last filed year; largest filed category is Aggravated Assault.
- 0.90
- Incidents / 1k students
- #577
- Rank of 2,072
- #70
- OH rank
- 1,108
- Enrolled students
0.90 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Lake Erie College reports 0.90 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 75% below Marietta College. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Marietta College (3.61/1k); Hendrix College (3.60/1k); Mars Hill University (4.50/1k); Salus University (0.90/1k); University of North Carolina School of the Arts (5.40/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Marietta College (3.61/1k); Mercy College of Ohio (0.00/1k); Heidelberg University (5.50/1k); Hiram College (0.94/1k); Wilmington College (2.88/1k); Northeast Ohio Medical University (0.00/1k); Miami University-Middletown (0.00/1k); Kent State University at East Liverpool (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Aggravated Assault.
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- incidents / 1,000 students
- 0.90
- of 2,072 ranked nationally
- #577
- safer than ranked campuses its size
- 72%
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 1
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 203580 · Lake Erie College 0.90/1k score rate · #577/2,072
RATE-QUIET · RANK-MID · ST-MID · PEER-FINISH · ZERO-NONE · TREND-FLAT · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO
- RATE-QUIET 0.90/1k
- RANK-MID #577/2,072
- ST-MID #70 in state
- PEER-FINISH Salus University · ±0.00
- ZERO-NONE Scored
- TREND-FLAT Flat
- CAT-LEAD Aggravated Assault
- ENR-SMALL 1,108
- FIRE-ZERO 0 fires filed
Nearest enrollment peer: Salus University (+0.00/1k)
Lake Erie College sheet RATE-QUIET · RANK-MID · ST-MID · PEER-FINISH · ZERO-NONE · TREND-FLAT · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO · peer Salus University. 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-QUIET · RANK-MID · ST-MID · PEER-FINISH · ZERO-NONE · TREND-FLAT · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is Salus University (+0.00/1k). National rank #577 of 2,072 scored campuses. Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Lake Erie College reports 0.90 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 75% below Marietta College. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Marietta College (3.61/1k); Hendrix College (3.60/1k); Mars Hill University (4.50/1k); Salus University (0.90/1k); University of North Carolina School of the Arts (5.40/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Marietta College (3.61/1k); Mercy College of Ohio (0.00/1k); Heidelberg University (5.50/1k); Hiram College (0.94/1k); Wilmington College (2.88/1k); Northeast Ohio Medical University (0.00/1k); Miami University-Middletown (0.00/1k); Kent State University at East Liverpool (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Aggravated Assault.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Lake Erie College
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Lake on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- Lake Erie College · this campus · lowest 0.9
Lake Erie College — this campus · lowest
0.9 per 1,000 students
- Salus University · near 0.9
Salus University — near
0.9 per 1,000 students
- Hendrix College · near
Hendrix College — near
3.6 per 1,000 students
- Marietta College · near
Marietta College — near
3.61 per 1,000 students
- University of North Carolina · highest peer
University of North Carolina School of the Arts — highest peer
5.4 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Lake Erie College's 0.90/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Lake Erie College decreased from 6 to 1 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 OH 4-year peers in this comparison, Lake Erie College is larger than 64% and safer-reporting than 50% - 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.
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- Point 1: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 67, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 25
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 61, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 58, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 14
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 56, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 31
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 50, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 69, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 72, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 75, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 78, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 47, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 36
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 44, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 81, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 83, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 42, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 22
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 86, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 36, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 17
- Point 18: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 36, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 17
- Point 19: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 33, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 20: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 89, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 21: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 31, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 22: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 28, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 23: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 25, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 11
- Point 24: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 92, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 6
- Point 25: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 22, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 26: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 19, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 27: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 17, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 8
- Point 28: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 14, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 29: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 11, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 30: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 94, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 31: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 8, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 39
- Point 32: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 97, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 28
- Point 33: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 6, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
- Point 34: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 3, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 35: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 36: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Lake Erie College: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 64, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
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| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antioch University | 486 | 0.00 | 0 | 56 |
| United Theological Seminary | 510 | 0.00 | 3 | 56 |
| Cleveland Institute of Art | 545 | 16.51 | 6 | 0 |
| Defiance College | 568 | 1.76 | 8 | 39 |
| Bryant & Stratton College-Parma | 624 | 0.00 | 11 | 56 |
| Galen College of Nursing-Cincinnati | 645 | 0.00 | 14 | 56 |
| Bluffton University | 646 | 6.19 | 17 | 8 |
| Mount Carmel College of Nursing | 670 | 0.00 | 19 | 56 |
| Good Samaritan College of Nursing and Health Science | 690 | 0.00 | 22 | 56 |
| The Christ College of Nursing and Health Sciences | 717 | 5.58 | 25 | 11 |
| Ohio State University-Lima Campus | 723 | 0.00 | 28 | 56 |
| Lake Erie College (this campus) | 1,108 | 0.90 | 64 | 50 |
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 Lake Erie College fell from 6 to 1 (-83%). The decrease shows up in Aggravated Assault (2 to 0), Burglary (1 to 0) and Fondling (1 to 0).
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 Lake Erie College
Across 3 reporting years, on-campus incidents were recorded in 5 Clery Act categories here: Aggravated Assault, Fondling, Motor Vehicle Theft, Burglary and Robbery.
The remaining 6 categories were reported with no on-campus incidents, among them Arson, Incest, Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter and Negligent Manslaughter. 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 onlyLake Erie College: Criminal Offenses by year
Stable 0% (1 → 1 incidents)
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| Period | On-campus incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2023 | 6 |
| 2024 | 1 |
| Crime Type | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aggravated Assault | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Fondling | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Burglary | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Incest | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Negligent Manslaughter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 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 | 13 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 9 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 12 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 10 |
| Weapons | 2023 | 0 | 3 |
| Drugs | 2022 | 0 | 10 |
| Liquor | 2022 | 0 | 12 |
| Weapons | 2022 | 0 | 1 |
Lake Erie 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
Marietta College
3.61 incidents / 1,000 students
AR
Hendrix College
3.60 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where Lake Erie College sits on price and outcomes
At $20,961, Lake Erie College's reported average net price is cheaper than 61% among 228 Ohio colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $17,989.
- $20,961
- average net price
- $17,989
- Ohio median
- 1.7×
- six-year earnings to median debt
- $2,175
- reported income-bracket spread
Price barely responds to income at this institution. Families under $30,000 report $20,195 and those above $110,000 report $22,370, a difference of just $2,175. Where the curve is this flat, need-based aid is doing little of the work and the sticker figure is close to what most families actually pay.
Six-year median earnings of $43,959 run about 2.1 times the annual net price. The margin is real but narrow, so how many years of price a student actually pays matters a great deal here.
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
- $37,634
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $37,634
- Avg Net Price
- $20,961
- Median Debt
- $26,000
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 37%
Admissions
- Acceptance Rate
- 70%
- ACT Average
- 20
Outcomes
- 4-Year Graduation Rate
- 40%
- Retention Rate
- 59%
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $43,959
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $50,417
- Loan Repayment (3yr)
- 76%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 1,254 similar institutions by enrollment size.
Marietta College
Marietta, OH · 1,109 enrolled
Safety Score 3.61
Hendrix College
Conway, AR · 1,110 enrolled
Safety Score 3.60
Mars Hill University
Mars Hill, NC · 1,110 enrolled
Safety Score 4.50
Salus University
Elkins Park, PA · 1,106 enrolled
Safety Score 0.90
University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Winston Salem, NC · 1,111 enrolled
Safety Score 5.40
Closest by National Rank
Lake Erie College (national rank #577) sits near Salus University (#578) and Spartanburg Community College (#576) 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 Lake Erie College, both outside OH so the neighborhoods are not state containment (Similar Institutions and national-rank neighbors above stay enrollment- or rank-based).
Similar enrollment (nationwide)
Hendrix College
Conway, AR · 1,110 enrolled
Safety score 3.60
Mars Hill University
Mars Hill, NC · 1,110 enrolled
Safety score 4.50
Salus University
Elkins Park, PA · 1,106 enrolled
Safety score 0.90
University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Winston Salem, NC · 1,111 enrolled
Safety score 5.40
Greenville University
Greenville, IL · 1,104 enrolled
Safety score 2.72
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport
Shreveport, LA · 1,103 enrolled
Safety score 25.39
Tusculum University
Greeneville, TN · 1,103 enrolled
Safety score 3.63
Graceland University-Lamoni
Lamoni, IA · 1,102 enrolled
Safety score 4.54
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
Lackawanna College
Scranton, PA · 2,211 enrolled
Safety score 0.90
College of Staten Island CUNY
Staten Island, NY · 11,033 enrolled
Safety score 0.91
Black Hills State University
Spearfish, SD · 3,346 enrolled
Safety score 0.90
Laurus College
San Luis Obispo, CA · 1,116 enrolled
Safety score 0.90
Morehead State University
Morehead, KY · 8,791 enrolled
Safety score 0.91
Lander University
Greenwood, SC · 4,378 enrolled
Safety score 0.91
St. Thomas University
Miami Gardens, FL · 7,652 enrolled
Safety score 0.91
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Lake Erie College safe?
Lake Erie College has a safety score of 0.90 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students) and ranks #577 nationally out of 2,072 ranked institutions - nearest similar-enrollment comparison: Marietta College (3.61/1k). Same-state same-level set: Marietta College (3.61/1k); Mercy College of Ohio (0.00/1k); Heidelberg University (5.50/1k); Hiram College (0.94/1k); Wilmington College (2.88/1k); Northeast Ohio Medical University (0.00/1k); Miami University-Middletown (0.00/1k); Kent State University at East Liverpool (0.00/1k).
What crimes are reported at Lake Erie College?
For calendar year 2024, Lake Erie College reported Motor Vehicle Theft (1) in the Criminal Offenses section. Every other category in that section was reported at zero; other Clery tables are separate.
How does Lake Erie College compare to similar schools?
Lake Erie College reports 75% fewer 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 than Marietta College. Scored similar-enrollment peers on this page: Marietta College (3.61/1k); Hendrix College (3.60/1k); Mars Hill University (4.50/1k); Salus University (0.90/1k); University of North Carolina School of the Arts (5.40/1k). Same-state same-level set: Marietta College (3.61/1k); Mercy College of Ohio (0.00/1k); Heidelberg University (5.50/1k); Hiram College (0.94/1k); Wilmington College (2.88/1k); Northeast Ohio Medical University (0.00/1k); Miami University-Middletown (0.00/1k); Kent State University at East Liverpool (0.00/1k).
Does Lake Erie College have fire safety data?
Yes. Lake Erie 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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