WA
Northwest College of Art & Design
7.19 incidents / 1,000 students
Tacoma, WA · Clery Act 2024 · Private For-Profit
Northwest College of Art & Design
Across 2022–2024, Northwest College of Art & Design reported 1 incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section, and the yearly count rose over that span (largest filed category: Burglary). Nearby same-state same-level comparison: Seattle Film Institute.
- 7.19
- Incidents / 1k students
- 139
- Enrolled students
7.19 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Northwest College of Art & Design reports 7.19 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 400% above Bel-Rea Institute of Animal Technology. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Bel-Rea Institute of Animal Technology (0.00/1k); Empire Beauty School-Cherry Hill (7.19/1k); Mirrer Yeshiva Cent Institute (0.00/1k); Universal Spa Training Academy (0.00/1k); Northwest College-Eugene (0.00/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Seattle Film Institute (0.00/1k); Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine (0.00/1k); Great Northern University (0.00/1k); The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology (0.00/1k); Faith International University (0.00/1k); Cornish College of the Arts (9.90/1k); Northwest Indian College (4.72/1k); Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Burglary.
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- incidents / 1,000 students
- 7.19
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 1
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 377546 · Northwest College of Art 7.19/1k score rate
RATE-HOT · RANK-UNK · ST-UNK · PEER-FINISH · ZERO-SMALL · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-NONE
- RATE-HOT 7.19/1k
- RANK-UNK Nat rank n/a
- ST-UNK State rank n/a
- PEER-FINISH Empire Beauty School-Cherry Hill · ±0.00
- ZERO-SMALL <500 enrolled
- TREND-UP ↑ trend
- CAT-LEAD Burglary
- ENR-SMALL 139
- FIRE-NONE No res filing
Nearest enrollment peer: Empire Beauty School-Cherry Hill (+0.00/1k)
Northwest College of Art & Design sheet RATE-HOT · RANK-UNK · ST-UNK · PEER-FINISH · ZERO-SMALL · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-NONE · peer Empire Beauty School-Cherry Hill. 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-UNK · ST-UNK · PEER-FINISH · ZERO-SMALL · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-NONE. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is Empire Beauty School-Cherry Hill (+0.00/1k). Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Northwest College of Art & Design reports 7.19 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 400% above Bel-Rea Institute of Animal Technology. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Bel-Rea Institute of Animal Technology (0.00/1k); Empire Beauty School-Cherry Hill (7.19/1k); Mirrer Yeshiva Cent Institute (0.00/1k); Universal Spa Training Academy (0.00/1k); Northwest College-Eugene (0.00/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Seattle Film Institute (0.00/1k); Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine (0.00/1k); Great Northern University (0.00/1k); The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology (0.00/1k); Faith International University (0.00/1k); Cornish College of the Arts (9.90/1k); Northwest Indian College (4.72/1k); Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Burglary.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Northwest College of
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Northwest on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- Bel-Rea Institute of Animal · lowest peer 0
Bel-Rea Institute of Animal Technology — lowest peer
0 per 1,000 students
- Mirrer Yeshiva Cent Institute · near 0
Mirrer Yeshiva Cent Institute — near
0 per 1,000 students
- Northwest College of Art · this campus
Northwest College of Art & Design — this campus
7.19 per 1,000 students
- Empire Beauty School-Cherry Hill · highest peer
Empire Beauty School-Cherry Hill — highest peer
7.19 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Northwest College of Art & Design's 7.19/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Northwest College of Art & Design increased from 0 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 WA 4-year peers in this comparison, Northwest College of Art & Design is larger than 8% and safer-reporting than 14% - 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 6, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 72
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 3, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 72
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 72
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 11, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 72
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 14, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 72
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 17, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 8
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 19, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 25
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 22, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 72
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 25, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 72
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 28, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 72
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 31, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 72
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 33, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 36
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 36, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 58
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 39, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 39
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 42, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 44, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 17
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 47, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 22
- Point 18: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 50, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 72
- Point 19: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 20: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 56, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 21: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 58, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 22: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 61, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 23: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 64, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 24: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 67, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 25: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 69, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 6
- Point 26: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 72, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 72
- Point 27: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 75, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 28: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 78, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 11
- Point 29: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 81, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 30: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 83, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
- Point 31: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 86, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 64
- Point 32: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 89, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 31
- Point 33: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 92, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 34: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 94, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 35: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 97, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 69
- Point 36: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 28
- Northwest College of Art &…: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 8, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 14
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| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Northern University | 48 | 0.00 | 0 | 72 |
| Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine | 50 | 0.00 | 3 | 72 |
| Seattle Film Institute | 85 | 0.00 | 6 | 72 |
| Northwest College of Art & Design (this campus) | 139 | 7.19 | 8 | 14 |
| The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology | 243 | 0.00 | 11 | 72 |
| Faith International University | 464 | 0.00 | 14 | 72 |
| Cornish College of the Arts | 505 | 9.90 | 17 | 8 |
| Northwest Indian College | 636 | 4.72 | 19 | 25 |
| Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences | 665 | 0.00 | 22 | 72 |
| Bastyr University | 734 | 0.00 | 25 | 72 |
| Antioch University-Seattle | 771 | 0.00 | 28 | 72 |
| Heritage University | 937 | 0.00 | 31 | 72 |
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 Northwest College of Art & Design rose from 0 to 1. The increase shows up in Burglary (0 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 Northwest College of Art & Design
Across 3 reporting years, the only Clery Act category with a recorded on-campus incident here is Burglary.
The remaining 10 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 onlyNorthwest College of Art & Design: Criminal Offenses by year
Rising
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| Period | On-campus incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 |
| Crime Type | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burglary | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 |
| 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
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 |
Northwest College of Art & Design 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).
CO
Bel-Rea Institute of Animal Technology
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
NJ
Empire Beauty School-Cherry Hill
7.19 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where Northwest College of Art & Design sits on price and outcomes
At $16,418, Northwest College of Art & Design's reported average net price is cheaper than 57% among 83 Washington colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $14,091.
- $16,418
- average net price
- $14,091
- Washington median
- 0.9×
- six-year earnings to median debt
- $16,124
- reported income-bracket spread
Aid here is steeply income-scaled. Families reporting under $30,000 of income record a net price of $12,977, while those above $110,000 record $29,101 - roughly 2.2 times as much. A published average of $16,418 therefore describes very few families well; the bracket nearest your own income is the more useful figure.
Six-year median earnings of $27,505 run about 1.7 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
- $18,100
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $18,100
- Avg Net Price
- $16,418
- Median Debt
- $30,750
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 51%
Admissions
- Acceptance Rate
- 66%
Outcomes
- 4-Year Graduation Rate
- 48%
- Retention Rate
- 77%
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $27,505
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $31,167
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 1,342 similar institutions by enrollment size.
Bel-Rea Institute of Animal Technology
Denver, CO · 139 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Empire Beauty School-Cherry Hill
Cherry Hill, NJ · 139 enrolled
Safety Score 7.19
Mirrer Yeshiva Cent Institute
Brooklyn, NY · 139 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Universal Spa Training Academy
Downers Grove, IL · 139 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Northwest College-Eugene
Springfield, OR · 139 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Nationwide campuses with similar scale or Clery rate
Two Clery-derived peer sets for Northwest College of Art & Design, both outside WA so the neighborhoods are not state containment (Similar Institutions and national-rank neighbors above stay enrollment- or rank-based).
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
Virginia Military Institute
Lexington, VA · 1,527 enrolled
Safety score 7.20
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Minneapolis, MN · 831 enrolled
Safety score 7.22
Dominican University New York
Orangeburg, NY · 1,396 enrolled
Safety score 7.16
Wofford College
Spartanburg, SC · 1,817 enrolled
Safety score 7.15
Centenary University
Hackettstown, NJ · 1,398 enrolled
Safety score 7.15
The University of Olivet
Olivet, MI · 979 enrolled
Safety score 7.15
Pitzer College
Claremont, CA · 1,242 enrolled
Safety score 7.25
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA · 2,241 enrolled
Safety score 7.14
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Northwest College of Art & Design safe?
Northwest College of Art & Design has a safety score of 7.19 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students). With 139 enrolled students it sits under the 500-student ranking cutoff; a size peer on file is Bel-Rea Institute of Animal Technology. Same-state same-level set: Seattle Film Institute (0.00/1k); Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine (0.00/1k); Great Northern University (0.00/1k); The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology (0.00/1k); Faith International University (0.00/1k); Cornish College of the Arts (9.90/1k); Northwest Indian College (4.72/1k); Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences (0.00/1k).
What crimes are reported at Northwest College of Art & Design?
For calendar year 2024, Northwest College of Art & Design reported Burglary (1) in the Criminal Offenses section. Every other category in that section was reported at zero; other Clery tables are separate.
How does Northwest College of Art & Design compare to similar schools?
Northwest College of Art & Design reports 400% more 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 than Bel-Rea Institute of Animal Technology. Scored similar-enrollment peers on this page: Bel-Rea Institute of Animal Technology (0.00/1k); Empire Beauty School-Cherry Hill (7.19/1k); Mirrer Yeshiva Cent Institute (0.00/1k); Universal Spa Training Academy (0.00/1k); Northwest College-Eugene (0.00/1k). Same-state same-level set: Seattle Film Institute (0.00/1k); Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine (0.00/1k); Great Northern University (0.00/1k); The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology (0.00/1k); Faith International University (0.00/1k); Cornish College of the Arts (9.90/1k); Northwest Indian College (4.72/1k); Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences (0.00/1k).
Does Northwest College of Art & Design have fire safety data?
Northwest College of Art & Design has no on-campus residential fire filing in this Clery release.
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