MD
Montgomery College
0.64 incidents / 1,000 students
Rockville, MD · Clery Act 2024 · Public
Montgomery College
Across 2022–2024, Montgomery College reported 20 incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section, and the yearly count rose over that span (largest filed category: Motor Vehicle Theft). Nearby same-state same-level comparison: Community College of Baltimore County.
- 0.64
- Incidents / 1k students
- #426
- Rank of 2,072
- #20
- MD rank
- 18,835
- Enrolled students
0.64 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Montgomery College reports 0.64 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 82% below Miami University-Oxford. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Miami University-Oxford (4.14/1k); Rio Salado College (0.21/1k); University of North Carolina Wilmington (4.19/1k); Binghamton University (8.93/1k); Johnson County Community College (0.27/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Community College of Baltimore County (0.55/1k); Anne Arundel Community College (0.44/1k); Prince George's Community College (0.61/1k); Howard Community College (0.23/1k); Frederick Community College (0.00/1k); Hagerstown Community College (0.59/1k); Harford Community College (0.99/1k); College of Southern Maryland (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Motor Vehicle Theft.
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- incidents / 1,000 students
- 0.64
- of 2,072 ranked nationally
- #426
- safer than ranked campuses its size
- 79%
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 8
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 163426 · Montgomery College 0.64/1k score rate · #426/2,072
RATE-QUIET · RANK-UPPER · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-MID · FIRE-NONE
- RATE-QUIET 0.64/1k
- RANK-UPPER #426/2,072
- ST-MID #20 in state
- ABOVE-PEER Johnson County Community College · +0.37
- ZERO-NONE Scored
- TREND-UP ↑ 167%
- CAT-LEAD Motor Vehicle Th…
- ENR-MID 18,835
- FIRE-NONE No res filing
Nearest enrollment peer: Johnson County Community College (-0.37/1k)
Montgomery College sheet RATE-QUIET · RANK-UPPER · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-MID · FIRE-NONE · peer Johnson County Community 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-QUIET · RANK-UPPER · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-MID · FIRE-NONE. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is Johnson County Community College (-0.37/1k). National rank #426 of 2,072 scored campuses. Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Montgomery College reports 0.64 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 82% below Miami University-Oxford. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Miami University-Oxford (4.14/1k); Rio Salado College (0.21/1k); University of North Carolina Wilmington (4.19/1k); Binghamton University (8.93/1k); Johnson County Community College (0.27/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Community College of Baltimore County (0.55/1k); Anne Arundel Community College (0.44/1k); Prince George's Community College (0.61/1k); Howard Community College (0.23/1k); Frederick Community College (0.00/1k); Hagerstown Community College (0.59/1k); Harford Community College (0.99/1k); College of Southern Maryland (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Motor Vehicle Theft.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Montgomery College
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Montgomery on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- Rio Salado College · lowest peer 0.21
Rio Salado College — lowest peer
0.21 per 1,000 students
- Johnson County Community College · near 0.27
Johnson County Community College — near
0.27 per 1,000 students
- Montgomery College · this campus 0.64
Montgomery College — this campus
0.64 per 1,000 students
- Miami University-Oxford · near
Miami University-Oxford — near
4.14 per 1,000 students
- Binghamton University · highest peer
Binghamton University — highest peer
8.93 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Montgomery College's 0.64/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Montgomery College decreased from 9 to 8 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 18 MD 2-year peers in this comparison, Montgomery College is larger than 100% and safer-reporting than 24% - the larger, 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 94, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 88, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 82, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 29
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 76, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 59
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 71, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 65
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 65, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 41
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 59, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 18
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 65
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 47, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 65
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 41, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 35
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 35, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 6
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 29, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 24, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 65
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 18, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 65
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 12, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 65
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 6, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 12
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 65
- Montgomery College: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 24
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| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fortis College-Landover | 566 | 0.00 | 0 | 65 |
| Garrett College | 679 | 1.47 | 6 | 12 |
| Lincoln College of Technology-Columbia | 1,258 | 0.00 | 12 | 65 |
| Cecil College | 1,749 | 0.00 | 18 | 65 |
| Chesapeake College | 2,095 | 0.00 | 24 | 65 |
| Allegany College of Maryland | 2,762 | 3.26 | 29 | 0 |
| Wor-Wic Community College | 2,941 | 1.70 | 35 | 6 |
| Carroll Community College | 3,337 | 0.60 | 41 | 35 |
| Baltimore City Community College | 4,375 | 0.00 | 47 | 65 |
| College of Southern Maryland | 5,062 | 0.00 | 53 | 65 |
| Harford Community College | 5,067 | 0.99 | 59 | 18 |
| Montgomery College (this campus) | 18,835 | 0.64 | 100 | 24 |
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 18,835 enrolled students, Montgomery College is the 230th largest of the 5,585 institutions in this dataset with a reported enrollment, ahead of 5,355 of them. Closest same-state same-level scored peers by enrollment: Community College of Baltimore County (0.55/1k); Anne Arundel Community College (0.44/1k); Prince George's Community College (0.61/1k); Howard Community College (0.23/1k); Frederick Community College (0.00/1k); Hagerstown Community College (0.59/1k); Harford Community College (0.99/1k); College of Southern Maryland (0.00/1k). 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 (Miami University-Oxford is the nearest similar-enrollment comparison on this profile).
What changed between 2023 and 2024
Reported on-campus incidents at Montgomery College fell from 9 to 8 (-11%). The increase shows up in Motor Vehicle Theft (3 to 5), Aggravated Assault (1 to 2) and Rape (0 to 1). Falling over the same period: Burglary (4 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 Montgomery College
Across 3 reporting years, on-campus incidents were recorded in 5 Clery Act categories here: Motor Vehicle Theft, Burglary, Aggravated Assault, Fondling and Rape.
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 onlyMontgomery College: Criminal Offenses by year
Rising 167% (3 → 8 incidents)
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| Period | On-campus incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 |
| 2023 | 9 |
| 2024 | 8 |
| Crime Type | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| Burglary | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Fondling | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Rape | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Incest | 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
Arrests & Disciplinary Actions
36 category-year records| Category | Year | Arrests | Discipline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 1 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 3 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
Montgomery 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
Miami University-Oxford
4.14 incidents / 1,000 students
AZ
Rio Salado College
0.21 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where Montgomery College sits on price and outcomes
At $8,027, Montgomery College's reported average net price is among the lowest reported prices among 67 Maryland colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $17,140.
- $8,027
- average net price
- $17,140
- Maryland median
- 3.7×
- six-year earnings to median debt
- $7,214
- reported income-bracket spread
Aid here is steeply income-scaled. Families reporting under $30,000 of income record a net price of $6,932, while those above $110,000 record $14,146 - roughly 2.0 times as much. A published average of $8,027 therefore describes very few families well; the bracket nearest your own income is the more useful figure.
Six years after enrolling, the median former student who received federal aid reports $38,251 - about 4.8 times one year of the reported net price here. On that ratio the cost is recovered quickly. Only 30% complete within six years. Most students here do not finish, which is the single most important number on this page for anyone weighing the cost.
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
- $5,394
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $14,250
- Avg Net Price
- $8,027
- Median Debt
- $10,415
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 27%
Outcomes
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $38,251
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $50,159
- Loan Repayment (3yr)
- 64%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 487 similar institutions by enrollment size.
Miami University-Oxford
Oxford, OH · 18,838 enrolled
Safety Score 4.14
Rio Salado College
Tempe, AZ · 18,841 enrolled
Safety Score 0.21
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Wilmington, NC · 18,848 enrolled
Safety Score 4.19
Binghamton University
Vestal, NY · 18,816 enrolled
Safety Score 8.93
Johnson County Community College
Overland Park, KS · 18,743 enrolled
Safety Score 0.27
Closest by National Rank
Montgomery College (national rank #426) sits near City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College (#427) and Cedarville University (#425) 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 Montgomery College, both outside MD so the neighborhoods are not state containment (Similar Institutions and national-rank neighbors above stay enrollment- or rank-based).
Similar enrollment (nationwide)
Johnson County Community College
Overland Park, KS · 18,743 enrolled
Safety score 0.27
Sierra College
Rocklin, CA · 19,125 enrolled
Safety score 0.16
City College of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA · 19,267 enrolled
Safety score 1.04
Central New Mexico Community College
Albuquerque, NM · 19,342 enrolled
Safety score 1.55
CUNY Kingsborough Community College
Brooklyn, NY · 18,165 enrolled
Safety score 0.17
Fullerton College
Fullerton, CA · 19,521 enrolled
Safety score 0.41
Palomar College
San Marcos, CA · 19,550 enrolled
Safety score 0.31
Blinn College District
Brenham, TX · 18,095 enrolled
Safety score 0.44
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College
Chicago, IL · 7,798 enrolled
Safety score 0.64
Cisco College
Cisco, TX · 3,160 enrolled
Safety score 0.63
Ulster County Community College
Stone Ridge, NY · 3,091 enrolled
Safety score 0.65
Chaffey College
Rancho Cucamonga, CA · 22,460 enrolled
Safety score 0.62
Alamance Community College
Graham, NC · 4,827 enrolled
Safety score 0.62
College of the Sequoias
Visalia, CA · 14,494 enrolled
Safety score 0.62
Heartland Community College
Normal, IL · 4,855 enrolled
Safety score 0.62
Allan Hancock College
Santa Maria, CA · 11,463 enrolled
Safety score 0.61
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Montgomery College safe?
Montgomery College has a safety score of 0.64 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students) and ranks #426 nationally out of 2,072 ranked institutions - nearest similar-enrollment comparison: Miami University-Oxford (4.14/1k). Same-state same-level set: Community College of Baltimore County (0.55/1k); Anne Arundel Community College (0.44/1k); Prince George's Community College (0.61/1k); Howard Community College (0.23/1k); Frederick Community College (0.00/1k); Hagerstown Community College (0.59/1k); Harford Community College (0.99/1k); College of Southern Maryland (0.00/1k).
What crimes are reported at Montgomery College?
For calendar year 2024, Montgomery College reported Motor Vehicle Theft (5), Aggravated Assault (2) 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 Montgomery College compare to similar schools?
Montgomery College reports 82% fewer 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 than Miami University-Oxford. Scored similar-enrollment peers on this page: Miami University-Oxford (4.14/1k); Rio Salado College (0.21/1k); University of North Carolina Wilmington (4.19/1k); Binghamton University (8.93/1k); Johnson County Community College (0.27/1k). Same-state same-level set: Community College of Baltimore County (0.55/1k); Anne Arundel Community College (0.44/1k); Prince George's Community College (0.61/1k); Howard Community College (0.23/1k); Frederick Community College (0.00/1k); Hagerstown Community College (0.59/1k); Harford Community College (0.99/1k); College of Southern Maryland (0.00/1k).
Does Montgomery College have fire safety data?
Montgomery College has no on-campus residential fire filing in this Clery release.
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