GA
Paine College
5.13 incidents / 1,000 students
Augusta, GA · Clery Act 2024 · Private Nonprofit
Paine College
Across 2022–2024, Paine College reported 3 incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section, with no net change between the first and last filed year; largest filed category is Rape.
- 5.13
- Incidents / 1k students
- 390
- Enrolled students
5.13 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Paine College reports 5.13 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 67% above American Institute-Cherry Hill. Similar-enrollment scored peers: American Institute-Cherry Hill (7.69/1k); Welch College (0.00/1k); Miller-Motte College-Tulsa (0.00/1k); Empire Beauty School-Manhattan (0.00/1k); Lindsey Hopkins Technical College (7.63/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Atlanta's John Marshall Law School (0.00/1k); Beulah Heights University (0.00/1k); Morris Brown College (0.00/1k); Herzing University-Atlanta (0.00/1k); Andrew College (4.03/1k); Luther Rice College & Seminary (0.00/1k); DeVry University-Georgia (0.00/1k); Wesleyan College (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Rape.
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- incidents / 1,000 students
- 5.13
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 1
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 140720 · Paine College 5.13/1k score rate
RATE-HIGH · RANK-UNK · ST-UNK · BELOW-PEER · ZERO-SMALL · TREND-FLAT · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO
- RATE-HIGH 5.13/1k
- RANK-UNK Nat rank n/a
- ST-UNK State rank n/a
- BELOW-PEER Lindsey Hopkins Technical College · 2.51 back
- ZERO-SMALL <500 enrolled
- TREND-FLAT Flat
- CAT-LEAD Rape
- ENR-SMALL 390
- FIRE-ZERO 0 fires filed
Nearest enrollment peer: Lindsey Hopkins Technical College (+2.51/1k)
Paine College sheet RATE-HIGH · RANK-UNK · ST-UNK · BELOW-PEER · ZERO-SMALL · TREND-FLAT · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO · peer Lindsey Hopkins 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-HIGH · RANK-UNK · ST-UNK · BELOW-PEER · ZERO-SMALL · TREND-FLAT · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is Lindsey Hopkins Technical College (+2.51/1k). Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Paine College reports 5.13 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 67% above American Institute-Cherry Hill. Similar-enrollment scored peers: American Institute-Cherry Hill (7.69/1k); Welch College (0.00/1k); Miller-Motte College-Tulsa (0.00/1k); Empire Beauty School-Manhattan (0.00/1k); Lindsey Hopkins Technical College (7.63/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Atlanta's John Marshall Law School (0.00/1k); Beulah Heights University (0.00/1k); Morris Brown College (0.00/1k); Herzing University-Atlanta (0.00/1k); Andrew College (4.03/1k); Luther Rice College & Seminary (0.00/1k); DeVry University-Georgia (0.00/1k); Wesleyan College (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Rape.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Paine College
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Paine on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- Welch College · lowest peer 0
Welch College — lowest peer
0 per 1,000 students
- Paine College · this campus
Paine College — this campus
5.13 per 1,000 students
- Lindsey Hopkins Technical College · near
Lindsey Hopkins Technical College — near
7.63 per 1,000 students
- American Institute-Cherry Hill · highest peer
American Institute-Cherry Hill — highest peer
7.69 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Paine College's 5.13/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Paine College was unchanged from 1 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 GA 4-year peers in this comparison, Paine College is larger than 11% and safer-reporting than 19% - 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 8, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 58
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 6, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 58
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 14, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 58
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 17, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 58
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 19, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 25
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 22, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 58
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 25, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 58
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 28, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 58
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 3, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 8
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 31, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 58
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 58
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 33, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 58
- 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) 58
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 42, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 6
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 44, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 47, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 14
- Point 18: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 50, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 31
- Point 19: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 20: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 56, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 21: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 58, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 11
- Point 22: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 61, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 17
- Point 23: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 64, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 58
- Point 24: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 67, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 58
- Point 25: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 69, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
- Point 26: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 72, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 39
- Point 27: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 75, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 28: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 78, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 29: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 81, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 30: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 83, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 31: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 86, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 22
- Point 32: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 89, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 58
- Point 33: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 92, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 28
- Point 34: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 94, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 35: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 97, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 36
- Point 36: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 58
- Paine College: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 11, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
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| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interdenominational Theological Center | 60 | 0.00 | 0 | 58 |
| Columbia Theological Seminary | 127 | 7.87 | 3 | 8 |
| Beulah Heights University | 359 | 0.00 | 6 | 58 |
| Atlanta's John Marshall Law School | 379 | 0.00 | 8 | 58 |
| Paine College (this campus) | 390 | 5.13 | 11 | 19 |
| Morris Brown College | 432 | 0.00 | 14 | 58 |
| Herzing University-Atlanta | 435 | 0.00 | 17 | 58 |
| Andrew College | 496 | 4.03 | 19 | 25 |
| Luther Rice College & Seminary | 508 | 0.00 | 22 | 58 |
| DeVry University-Georgia | 522 | 0.00 | 25 | 58 |
| Wesleyan College | 531 | 0.00 | 28 | 58 |
| South University-Savannah | 716 | 0.00 | 31 | 58 |
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 Paine College held level. The total is unchanged, but the mix behind it is not. Rising: Motor Vehicle Theft (0 to 1). Falling over the same period: Rape (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 Paine College
Across 3 reporting years, on-campus incidents were recorded in 2 Clery Act categories here: Rape and Motor Vehicle Theft. Rape accounts for most of them.
The remaining 9 categories were reported with no on-campus incidents, among them Aggravated Assault, Arson, Burglary and Fondling. 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 onlyPaine College: Criminal Offenses by year
Stable 0% (1 → 1 incidents)
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| Period | On-campus incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 |
| Crime Type | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rape | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fondling | 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
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 | 2 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 1 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 1 | 4 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 3 |
| Weapons | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2022 | 0 | 5 |
| Liquor | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2022 | 0 | 1 |
Paine 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).
NJ
American Institute-Cherry Hill
7.69 incidents / 1,000 students
TN
Welch College
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where Paine College sits on price and outcomes
At $16,670, Paine College's reported average net price is cheaper than 52% among 124 Georgia colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $16,482.
- $16,670
- average net price
- $16,482
- Georgia median
- $5,066
- reported income-bracket spread
Net price moves with income here, but not sharply: $15,322 for families reporting under $30,000 against $20,388 above $110,000, a difference of $5,066. Aid narrows the gap without closing it, so the $16,670 average sits reasonably close to what most brackets report.
Six-year median earnings of $25,240 run about 1.5 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
- $14,596
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $14,596
- Avg Net Price
- $16,670
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 76%
Admissions
- Acceptance Rate
- 95%
Outcomes
- 4-Year Graduation Rate
- 17%
- Retention Rate
- 54%
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $25,240
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $33,338
- Loan Repayment (3yr)
- 29%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 1,157 similar institutions by enrollment size.
American Institute-Cherry Hill
Cherry Hill, NJ · 390 enrolled
Safety Score 7.69
Welch College
Gallatin, TN · 389 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Miller-Motte College-Tulsa
Tulsa, OK · 389 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Empire Beauty School-Manhattan
New York, NY · 388 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Lindsey Hopkins Technical College
Miami, FL · 393 enrolled
Safety Score 7.63
Nationwide campuses with similar scale or Clery rate
Two Clery-derived peer sets for Paine College, both outside GA so the neighborhoods are not state containment (Similar Institutions and national-rank neighbors above stay enrollment- or rank-based).
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
North Carolina Central University
Durham, NC · 8,579 enrolled
Safety score 5.13
Whitman College
Walla Walla, WA · 1,561 enrolled
Safety score 5.12
St Olaf College
Northfield, MN · 3,124 enrolled
Safety score 5.12
Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, NY · 35,173 enrolled
Safety score 5.12
Alabama State University
Montgomery, AL · 4,081 enrolled
Safety score 5.15
Spalding University
Louisville, KY · 1,553 enrolled
Safety score 5.15
Western Oregon University
Monmouth, OR · 3,722 enrolled
Safety score 5.10
Brown University
Providence, RI · 11,956 enrolled
Safety score 5.10
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Paine College safe?
Paine College has a safety score of 5.13 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students). With 390 enrolled students it sits under the 500-student ranking cutoff; a size peer on file is American Institute-Cherry Hill. Same-state same-level set: Atlanta's John Marshall Law School (0.00/1k); Beulah Heights University (0.00/1k); Morris Brown College (0.00/1k); Herzing University-Atlanta (0.00/1k); Andrew College (4.03/1k); Luther Rice College & Seminary (0.00/1k); DeVry University-Georgia (0.00/1k); Wesleyan College (0.00/1k).
What crimes are reported at Paine College?
For calendar year 2024, Paine 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 Paine College compare to similar schools?
Paine College reports 67% more 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 than American Institute-Cherry Hill. Scored similar-enrollment peers on this page: American Institute-Cherry Hill (7.69/1k); Welch College (0.00/1k); Miller-Motte College-Tulsa (0.00/1k); Empire Beauty School-Manhattan (0.00/1k); Lindsey Hopkins Technical College (7.63/1k). Same-state same-level set: Atlanta's John Marshall Law School (0.00/1k); Beulah Heights University (0.00/1k); Morris Brown College (0.00/1k); Herzing University-Atlanta (0.00/1k); Andrew College (4.03/1k); Luther Rice College & Seminary (0.00/1k); DeVry University-Georgia (0.00/1k); Wesleyan College (0.00/1k).
Does Paine College have fire safety data?
Yes. Paine 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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