IA
Luther College
5.06 incidents / 1,000 students
Decorah, IA · Clery Act 2024 · Private Nonprofit
Luther College
Across 2022–2024, Luther College reported 22 incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section, and the yearly count fell over that span (largest filed category: Fondling). Nearby same-state same-level comparison: Mount Mercy University.
- 5.06
- Incidents / 1k students
- #1,620
- Rank of 2,072
- #37
- IA rank
- 1,384
- Enrolled students
5.06 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Luther College reports 5.06 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 192% above Nicolet Area Technical College. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Nicolet Area Technical College (0.00/1k); Strayer University-Pennsylvania (0.00/1k); Western Texas College (0.00/1k); Belmont Abbey College (5.76/1k); Albright College (2.90/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Mount Mercy University (0.00/1k); William Penn University (7.72/1k); Wartburg College (1.35/1k); Simpson College (1.60/1k); Des Moines University-Osteopathic Medical Center (0.65/1k); Coe College (10.88/1k); Loras College (5.05/1k); Graceland University-Lamoni (4.54/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Fondling.
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- incidents / 1,000 students
- 5.06
- of 2,072 ranked nationally
- #1,620
- report fewer incidents than this campus
- 78%
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 4
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 153834 · Luther College 5.06/1k score rate · #1,620/2,072
RATE-HIGH · RANK-BOTTOM · ST-MID · BELOW-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO
- RATE-HIGH 5.06/1k
- RANK-BOTTOM #1,620/2,072
- ST-MID #37 in state
- BELOW-PEER Belmont Abbey College · 0.71 back
- ZERO-NONE Scored
- TREND-DOWN ↓ 60%
- CAT-LEAD Fondling
- ENR-SMALL 1,384
- FIRE-ZERO 0 fires filed
Nearest enrollment peer: Belmont Abbey College (+0.71/1k)
Luther College sheet RATE-HIGH · RANK-BOTTOM · ST-MID · BELOW-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO · peer Belmont Abbey 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-HIGH · RANK-BOTTOM · ST-MID · BELOW-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is Belmont Abbey College (+0.71/1k). National rank #1,620 of 2,072 scored campuses. Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Luther College reports 5.06 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 192% above Nicolet Area Technical College. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Nicolet Area Technical College (0.00/1k); Strayer University-Pennsylvania (0.00/1k); Western Texas College (0.00/1k); Belmont Abbey College (5.76/1k); Albright College (2.90/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Mount Mercy University (0.00/1k); William Penn University (7.72/1k); Wartburg College (1.35/1k); Simpson College (1.60/1k); Des Moines University-Osteopathic Medical Center (0.65/1k); Coe College (10.88/1k); Loras College (5.05/1k); Graceland University-Lamoni (4.54/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Fondling.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Luther College
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Luther on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- Nicolet Area Technical College · lowest peer 0
Nicolet Area Technical College — lowest peer
0 per 1,000 students
- Albright College · near
Albright College — near
2.9 per 1,000 students
- Luther College · this campus
Luther College — this campus
5.06 per 1,000 students
- Belmont Abbey College · highest peer
Belmont Abbey College — highest peer
5.76 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Luther College's 5.06/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Luther College decreased from 8 to 4 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 IA 4-year peers in this comparison, Luther College is larger than 44% and safer-reporting than 28% - 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 47, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 83
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 50, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 17
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 72
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 42, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 69
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 56, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 81
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 39, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 6
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 36, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 31
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 33, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 36
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 31, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 28, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 58, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 58
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 61, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 64, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 25, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 22, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 64
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 67, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 11
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 69, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 18: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 19, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 19: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 72, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 78
- Point 20: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 75, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 21: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 17, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 83
- Point 22: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 78, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 23: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 81, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 14
- Point 24: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 14, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 25: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 83, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 22
- Point 26: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 11, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 83
- Point 27: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 8, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 83
- Point 28: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 86, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 39
- Point 29: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 6, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 83
- Point 30: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 3, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 83
- Point 31: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 83
- Point 32: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 89, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 75
- Point 33: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 92, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 34: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 94, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 25
- Point 35: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 97, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 36: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 8
- Luther College: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 44, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 28
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| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orion Technical College | 41 | 0.00 | 0 | 83 |
| Divine Word College | 64 | 0.00 | 3 | 83 |
| Wartburg Theological Seminary | 161 | 0.00 | 6 | 83 |
| St Luke's College | 176 | 0.00 | 8 | 83 |
| Emmaus Bible College | 234 | 0.00 | 11 | 83 |
| Allen College | 483 | 2.07 | 14 | 67 |
| Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary | 611 | 0.00 | 17 | 83 |
| Mercy College of Health Sciences | 869 | 3.45 | 19 | 50 |
| Briar Cliff University | 947 | 2.11 | 22 | 64 |
| Clarke University | 962 | 4.16 | 25 | 44 |
| Central College | 1,084 | 7.38 | 28 | 19 |
| Luther College (this campus) | 1,384 | 5.06 | 44 | 28 |
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 Luther College fell from 8 to 4 (-50%). The decrease shows up in Fondling (6 to 3) and Rape (2 to 1).
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 Luther College
Across 3 reporting years, on-campus incidents were recorded in 2 Clery Act categories here: Fondling and Rape. Fondling accounts for most of them.
The remaining 9 categories were reported with no on-campus incidents, among them Aggravated Assault, Arson, Burglary 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 onlyLuther College: Criminal Offenses by year
Declining 60% (10 → 4 incidents)
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| Period | On-campus incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 10 |
| 2023 | 8 |
| 2024 | 4 |
| Crime Type | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fondling | 3 | 6 | 3 |
| Rape | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Burglary | 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 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 10 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 15 |
| Weapons | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2022 | 0 | 13 |
| Weapons | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
Luther 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).
WI
Nicolet Area Technical College
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
PA
Strayer University-Pennsylvania
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where Luther College sits on price and outcomes
At $23,097, Luther College's reported average net price is cheaper than 78% among 68 Iowa colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $17,813.
- $23,097
- average net price
- $17,813
- Iowa median
- 1.8×
- six-year earnings to median debt
- $16,859
- reported income-bracket spread
Aid here is steeply income-scaled. Families reporting under $30,000 of income record a net price of $12,517, while those above $110,000 record $29,376 - roughly 2.3 times as much. A published average of $23,097 therefore describes very few families well; the bracket nearest your own income is the more useful figure.
Six-year median earnings of $49,541 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
- $52,120
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $52,120
- Avg Net Price
- $23,097
- Median Debt
- $27,000
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 20%
Admissions
- Acceptance Rate
- 72%
- SAT Average
- 1218
- SAT Math Range
- 528-738
- ACT Average
- 26
- ACT Range
- 22-29
Outcomes
- 4-Year Graduation Rate
- 73%
- Retention Rate
- 77%
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $49,541
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $59,850
- Loan Repayment (3yr)
- 86%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 1,270 similar institutions by enrollment size.
Nicolet Area Technical College
Rhinelander, WI · 1,384 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Strayer University-Pennsylvania
Trevose, PA · 1,384 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Western Texas College
Snyder, TX · 1,385 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Belmont Abbey College
Belmont, NC · 1,388 enrolled
Safety Score 5.76
Albright College
Reading, PA · 1,380 enrolled
Safety Score 2.90
Closest by National Rank
Luther College (national rank #1620) sits near Loras College (#1619) and Brown University (#1621) 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 Luther College, both outside IA so the neighborhoods are not state containment (Similar Institutions and national-rank neighbors above stay enrollment- or rank-based).
Similar enrollment (nationwide)
Strayer University-Pennsylvania
Trevose, PA · 1,384 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Albright College
Reading, PA · 1,380 enrolled
Safety score 2.90
Belmont Abbey College
Belmont, NC · 1,388 enrolled
Safety score 5.76
Yeshivath Viznitz
Monsey, NY · 1,389 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Saint Martin's University
Lacey, WA · 1,390 enrolled
Safety score 1.44
Catawba College
Salisbury, NC · 1,376 enrolled
Safety score 6.54
Nichols College
Dudley, MA · 1,392 enrolled
Safety score 4.31
University of Jamestown
Jamestown, ND · 1,376 enrolled
Safety score 8.72
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
Whittier College
Whittier, CA · 795 enrolled
Safety score 5.03
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY · 11,946 enrolled
Safety score 5.02
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE · 3,988 enrolled
Safety score 5.01
Brown University
Providence, RI · 11,956 enrolled
Safety score 5.10
Savannah State University
Savannah, GA · 3,193 enrolled
Safety score 5.01
Western Oregon University
Monmouth, OR · 3,722 enrolled
Safety score 5.10
The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN · 11,775 enrolled
Safety score 5.01
University of Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN · 5,000 enrolled
Safety score 5.00
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Luther College safe?
Luther College has a safety score of 5.06 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students) and ranks #1,620 nationally out of 2,072 ranked institutions - nearest similar-enrollment comparison: Nicolet Area Technical College (0.00/1k). Same-state same-level set: Mount Mercy University (0.00/1k); William Penn University (7.72/1k); Wartburg College (1.35/1k); Simpson College (1.60/1k); Des Moines University-Osteopathic Medical Center (0.65/1k); Coe College (10.88/1k); Loras College (5.05/1k); Graceland University-Lamoni (4.54/1k).
What crimes are reported at Luther College?
For calendar year 2024, Luther College reported Fondling (3) and Rape (1) in the Criminal Offenses section. Every other category in that section was reported at zero; other Clery tables are separate.
How does Luther College compare to similar schools?
Luther College reports 192% more 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 than Nicolet Area Technical College. Scored similar-enrollment peers on this page: Nicolet Area Technical College (0.00/1k); Strayer University-Pennsylvania (0.00/1k); Western Texas College (0.00/1k); Belmont Abbey College (5.76/1k); Albright College (2.90/1k). Same-state same-level set: Mount Mercy University (0.00/1k); William Penn University (7.72/1k); Wartburg College (1.35/1k); Simpson College (1.60/1k); Des Moines University-Osteopathic Medical Center (0.65/1k); Coe College (10.88/1k); Loras College (5.05/1k); Graceland University-Lamoni (4.54/1k).
Does Luther College have fire safety data?
Yes. Luther 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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