KS
Newman University
0.34 incidents / 1,000 students
Wichita, KS · Clery Act 2024 · Private Nonprofit
Newman University
Across 2022–2024, Newman University reported 8 incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section, and the yearly count fell over that span (largest filed category: Motor Vehicle Theft). Nearby same-state same-level comparison: Benedictine College.
- 0.34
- Incidents / 1k students
- #215
- Rank of 2,072
- #12
- KS rank
- 2,939
- Enrolled students
0.34 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Newman University reports 0.34 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 84% below Andrews University. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Andrews University (6.46/1k); Northwood Technical College (0.00/1k); Wor-Wic Community College (1.70/1k); Lake Michigan College (1.36/1k); Northwest Career College (1.02/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Benedictine College (1.97/1k); Baker University (3.47/1k); Friends University (3.57/1k); MidAmerica Nazarene University (3.90/1k); University of Saint Mary (5.47/1k); Emporia State University (2.85/1k); Southwestern College (2.88/1k); Kansas Wesleyan University (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
- 0.34
- of 2,072 ranked nationally
- #215
- safer than ranked campuses its size
- 90%
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 1
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 155335 · Newman University 0.34/1k score rate · #215/2,072
RATE-QUIET · RANK-UPPER · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO
- RATE-QUIET 0.34/1k
- RANK-UPPER #215/2,072
- ST-MID #12 in state
- ABOVE-PEER Northwood Technical College · +0.34
- ZERO-NONE Scored
- TREND-DOWN ↓ 67%
- CAT-LEAD Motor Vehicle Th…
- ENR-SMALL 2,939
- FIRE-ZERO 0 fires filed
Nearest enrollment peer: Northwood Technical College (-0.34/1k)
Newman University sheet RATE-QUIET · RANK-UPPER · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO · peer Northwood Technical 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-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is Northwood Technical College (-0.34/1k). National rank #215 of 2,072 scored campuses. Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Newman University reports 0.34 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 84% below Andrews University. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Andrews University (6.46/1k); Northwood Technical College (0.00/1k); Wor-Wic Community College (1.70/1k); Lake Michigan College (1.36/1k); Northwest Career College (1.02/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Benedictine College (1.97/1k); Baker University (3.47/1k); Friends University (3.57/1k); MidAmerica Nazarene University (3.90/1k); University of Saint Mary (5.47/1k); Emporia State University (2.85/1k); Southwestern College (2.88/1k); Kansas Wesleyan University (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Motor Vehicle Theft.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Newman University
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Newman on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- Northwood Technical College · lowest peer 0
Northwood Technical College — lowest peer
0 per 1,000 students
- Newman University · this campus 0.34
Newman University — this campus
0.34 per 1,000 students
- Northwest Career College · near 1.02
Northwest Career College — near
1.02 per 1,000 students
- Lake Michigan College · near 1.36
Lake Michigan College — near
1.36 per 1,000 students
- Andrews University · highest peer
Andrews University — highest peer
6.46 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Newman University's 0.34/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Newman University decreased from 4 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 33 KS 4-year peers in this comparison, Newman University is larger than 78% and safer-reporting than 81% - 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 75, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 66
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 72, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 41
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 69, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 38
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 66, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 34
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 63, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 22
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 81, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 59, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 56, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 84
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 75
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 50, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 9
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 47, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 13
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 44, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 28
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 41, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 38, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 25
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 34, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 69
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 31, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 84
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 28, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 18: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 25, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 31
- Point 19: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 22, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 63
- Point 20: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 19, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 84
- Point 21: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 16, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 22: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 13, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 84
- Point 23: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 9, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 84
- Point 24: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 6, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 84
- Point 25: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 3, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 6
- Point 26: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 84, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 27: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
- Point 28: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 88, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 72
- Point 29: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 91, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 78
- Point 30: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 94, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 31: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 97, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 59
- Point 32: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 16
- Newman University: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 78, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 81
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| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Paul School of Theology | 91 | 241.76 | 0 | 0 |
| Kansas Christian College | 145 | 13.79 | 3 | 6 |
| Manhattan Christian College | 160 | 0.00 | 6 | 84 |
| Barclay College | 219 | 0.00 | 9 | 84 |
| Rasmussen University-Kansas | 359 | 0.00 | 13 | 84 |
| Hesston College | 373 | 21.45 | 16 | 3 |
| Donnelly College | 395 | 0.00 | 19 | 84 |
| Kansas Health Science University | 401 | 2.49 | 22 | 63 |
| Central Christian College of Kansas | 469 | 4.26 | 25 | 31 |
| Bethel College-North Newton | 509 | 5.89 | 28 | 19 |
| Ottawa University-Kansas City | 528 | 0.00 | 31 | 84 |
| Newman University (this campus) | 2,939 | 0.34 | 78 | 81 |
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 Newman University fell from 4 to 1 (-75%). The decrease shows up in Motor Vehicle Theft (3 to 1) and Burglary (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 Newman University
Across 3 reporting years, on-campus incidents were recorded in 3 Clery Act categories here: Motor Vehicle Theft, Aggravated Assault and Burglary. Motor Vehicle Theft accounts for most of them.
The remaining 8 categories were reported with no on-campus incidents, among them Arson, Fondling, Incest and Murder / Non-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 onlyNewman University: Criminal Offenses by year
Declining 67% (3 → 1 incidents)
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| Period | On-campus incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 |
| 2023 | 4 |
| 2024 | 1 |
| Crime Type | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Burglary | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fondling | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Incest | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Negligent Manslaughter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 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 | 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 |
Newman 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).
MI
Andrews University
6.46 incidents / 1,000 students
WI
Northwood Technical College
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where Newman University sits on price and outcomes
At $19,971, Newman University's reported average net price is cheaper than 69% among 72 Kansas colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $15,313.
- $19,971
- average net price
- $15,313
- Kansas median
- 2.3×
- six-year earnings to median debt
- $3,714
- reported income-bracket spread
Price barely responds to income at this institution. Families under $30,000 report $18,060 and those above $110,000 report $21,774, a difference of just $3,714. 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 $47,051 run about 2.4 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
- $35,500
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $35,500
- Avg Net Price
- $19,971
- Median Debt
- $20,801
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 12%
Admissions
- Acceptance Rate
- 74%
- ACT Average
- 21
Outcomes
- 4-Year Graduation Rate
- 53%
- Retention Rate
- 69%
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $47,051
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $55,041
- Loan Repayment (3yr)
- 70%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 1,240 similar institutions by enrollment size.
Andrews University
Berrien Springs, MI · 2,940 enrolled
Safety Score 6.46
Northwood Technical College
Rice Lake, WI · 2,940 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Wor-Wic Community College
Salisbury, MD · 2,941 enrolled
Safety Score 1.70
Lake Michigan College
Benton Harbor, MI · 2,937 enrolled
Safety Score 1.36
Northwest Career College
Las Vegas, NV · 2,937 enrolled
Safety Score 1.02
Closest by National Rank
Newman University (national rank #215) sits near Community College of Aurora (#214) and Dakota County Technical College (#216) on the scored national list, nearest by rank, not by size or state.
Community College of Aurora
Aurora, CO
National Rank #214
Dakota County Technical College
Rosemount, MN
National Rank #216
Miami Dade College
Miami, FL
National Rank #213
University of Maine at Presque Isle
Presque Isle, ME
National Rank #217
Diablo Valley College
Pleasant Hill, CA
National Rank #218
Nationwide campuses with similar scale or Clery rate
Two Clery-derived peer sets for Newman University, both outside KS so the neighborhoods are not state containment (Similar Institutions and national-rank neighbors above stay enrollment- or rank-based).
Similar enrollment (nationwide)
Andrews University
Berrien Springs, MI · 2,940 enrolled
Safety score 6.46
Bethel University
Mckenzie, TN · 2,936 enrolled
Safety score 9.20
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR · 2,942 enrolled
Safety score 12.58
The College of Saint Scholastica
Duluth, MN · 2,930 enrolled
Safety score 1.71
Stanbridge University
Irvine, CA · 2,928 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Galen College of Nursing-San Antonio
San Antonio, TX · 2,953 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Inter American University of Puerto Rico-Ponce
Mercedita, PR · 2,925 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Milwaukee School of Engineering
Milwaukee, WI · 2,953 enrolled
Safety score 6.43
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
Miami Dade College
Miami, FL · 58,941 enrolled
Safety score 0.34
University of Maine at Presque Isle
Presque Isle, ME · 2,873 enrolled
Safety score 0.35
Eastern New Mexico University-Main Campus
Portales, NM · 5,725 enrolled
Safety score 0.35
Schoolcraft Community College District
Livonia, MI · 8,587 enrolled
Safety score 0.35
The Master's University and Seminary
Santa Clarita, CA · 2,860 enrolled
Safety score 0.35
Missouri Baptist University
Saint Louis, MO · 5,699 enrolled
Safety score 0.35
Indiana University-Northwest
Gary, IN · 3,041 enrolled
Safety score 0.33
College of Southern Nevada
Las Vegas, NV · 28,313 enrolled
Safety score 0.35
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Newman University safe?
Newman University has a safety score of 0.34 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students) and ranks #215 nationally out of 2,072 ranked institutions - nearest similar-enrollment comparison: Andrews University (6.46/1k). Same-state same-level set: Benedictine College (1.97/1k); Baker University (3.47/1k); Friends University (3.57/1k); MidAmerica Nazarene University (3.90/1k); University of Saint Mary (5.47/1k); Emporia State University (2.85/1k); Southwestern College (2.88/1k); Kansas Wesleyan University (0.00/1k).
What crimes are reported at Newman University?
For calendar year 2024, Newman University 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 Newman University compare to similar schools?
Newman University reports 84% fewer 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 than Andrews University. Scored similar-enrollment peers on this page: Andrews University (6.46/1k); Northwood Technical College (0.00/1k); Wor-Wic Community College (1.70/1k); Lake Michigan College (1.36/1k); Northwest Career College (1.02/1k). Same-state same-level set: Benedictine College (1.97/1k); Baker University (3.47/1k); Friends University (3.57/1k); MidAmerica Nazarene University (3.90/1k); University of Saint Mary (5.47/1k); Emporia State University (2.85/1k); Southwestern College (2.88/1k); Kansas Wesleyan University (0.00/1k).
Does Newman University have fire safety data?
Yes. Newman University 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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