IL
Rush University
15.89 incidents / 1,000 students
Chicago, IL · Clery Act 2024 · Private Nonprofit
Rush University
Across 2022–2024, Rush University reported 73 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: Wheaton College.
- 15.89
- Incidents / 1k students
- #2,021
- Rank of 2,072
- #112
- IL rank
- 2,769
- Enrolled students
15.89 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Rush University reports 15.89 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 340% above Indiana Institute of Technology. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Indiana Institute of Technology (5.42/1k); Avila University (1.45/1k); Windward Community College (0.00/1k); Lafayette College (7.93/1k); Allegany College of Maryland (3.26/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Wheaton College (6.26/1k); Benedictine University (1.37/1k); Augustana College (5.84/1k); Midwestern University-Downers Grove (0.00/1k); North Park University (0.78/1k); North Central College (3.00/1k); University of St Francis (0.65/1k); McKendree University (1.25/1k). 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
- 15.89
- of 2,072 ranked nationally
- #2,021
- report fewer incidents than this campus
- 98%
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 25
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 148511 · Rush University 15.89/1k score rate · #2,021/2,072
RATE-HOT · RANK-BOTTOM · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-NONE
- RATE-HOT 15.89/1k
- RANK-BOTTOM #2,021/2,072
- ST-MID #112 in state
- ABOVE-PEER Lafayette College · +7.96
- ZERO-NONE Scored
- TREND-UP ↑ 25%
- CAT-LEAD Motor Vehicle Th…
- ENR-SMALL 2,769
- FIRE-NONE No res filing
Nearest enrollment peer: Lafayette College (-7.96/1k)
Rush University sheet RATE-HOT · RANK-BOTTOM · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-NONE · peer Lafayette 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-HOT · RANK-BOTTOM · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-NONE. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is Lafayette College (-7.96/1k). National rank #2,021 of 2,072 scored campuses. Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Rush University reports 15.89 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 340% above Indiana Institute of Technology. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Indiana Institute of Technology (5.42/1k); Avila University (1.45/1k); Windward Community College (0.00/1k); Lafayette College (7.93/1k); Allegany College of Maryland (3.26/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Wheaton College (6.26/1k); Benedictine University (1.37/1k); Augustana College (5.84/1k); Midwestern University-Downers Grove (0.00/1k); North Park University (0.78/1k); North Central College (3.00/1k); University of St Francis (0.65/1k); McKendree University (1.25/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Motor Vehicle Theft.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Rush University
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Rush on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- Windward Community College · lowest peer 0
Windward Community College — lowest peer
0 per 1,000 students
- Allegany College of Maryland · near 3.26
Allegany College of Maryland — near
3.26 per 1,000 students
- Indiana Institute of Technology · near 5.42
Indiana Institute of Technology — near
5.42 per 1,000 students
- Lafayette College · near
Lafayette College — near
7.93 per 1,000 students
- Rush University · this campus · highest
Rush University — this campus · highest
15.89 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Rush University's 15.89/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Rush University decreased from 28 to 25 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 IL 4-year peers in this comparison, Rush University is larger than 61% and safer-reporting than 0% - 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.
Read the chart as text
- Point 1: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 64, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 14
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 67, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 58
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 58, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 17
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 56, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 86
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 69
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 69, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 72, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 75
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 50, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 47, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 78
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 44, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 39
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 75, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 36
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 78, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 81
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 81, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 42, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 39, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 28
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 83, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 25
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 36, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 86
- Point 18: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 33, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 86
- Point 19: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 31, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 11
- Point 20: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 86, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 31
- Point 21: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 89, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 72
- Point 22: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 28, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 23: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 25, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 6
- Point 24: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 92, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 83
- Point 25: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 22, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 26: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 19, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 27: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 17, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 86
- Point 28: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 14, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 29: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 11, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 8
- Point 30: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 94, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 31: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 8, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 86
- Point 32: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 6, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 86
- Point 33: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 3, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 64
- Point 34: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 97, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 35: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 22
- Point 36: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Rush University: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 61, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
Read the chart as a table
| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monmouth College | 713 | 5.61 | 0 | 19 |
| St. Augustine College | 810 | 1.23 | 3 | 64 |
| Trinity Christian College | 854 | 0.00 | 6 | 86 |
| Trinity International University-Illinois | 869 | 0.00 | 8 | 86 |
| Illinois College | 942 | 7.43 | 11 | 8 |
| Judson University | 960 | 1.04 | 14 | 67 |
| The Chicago School at Chicago | 1,100 | 0.00 | 17 | 86 |
| Greenville University | 1,104 | 2.72 | 19 | 44 |
| Knox College | 1,136 | 10.56 | 22 | 3 |
| Quincy University | 1,210 | 8.26 | 25 | 6 |
| Rockford University | 1,241 | 4.03 | 28 | 33 |
| Rush University (this campus) | 2,769 | 15.89 | 61 | 0 |
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 Rush University fell from 28 to 25 (-11%). The increase shows up in Aggravated Assault (4 to 16) and Fondling (2 to 4). Falling over the same period: Motor Vehicle Theft (19 to 3) and Burglary (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 Rush University
Across 3 reporting years, on-campus incidents were recorded in 6 Clery Act categories here: Motor Vehicle Theft, Aggravated Assault, Fondling, Burglary, Robbery and Rape.
The remaining 5 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 onlyRush University: Criminal Offenses by year
Rising 25% (20 → 25 incidents)
Read the chart as text
| Period | On-campus incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 20 |
| 2023 | 28 |
| 2024 | 25 |
| Crime Type | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 3 | 19 | 8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 16 | 4 | 4 |
| Fondling | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Burglary | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Robbery | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Incest | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Negligent Manslaughter | 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 | 1 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 1 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
Rush 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).
IN
Indiana Institute of Technology
5.42 incidents / 1,000 students
MO
Avila University
1.45 incidents / 1,000 students
Academic & Financial Profile
Outcomes
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $86,865
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $75,194
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 1,267 similar institutions by enrollment size.
Indiana Institute of Technology
Fort Wayne, IN · 2,770 enrolled
Safety Score 5.42
Avila University
Kansas City, MO · 2,768 enrolled
Safety Score 1.45
Windward Community College
Kaneohe, HI · 2,765 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Lafayette College
Easton, PA · 2,775 enrolled
Safety Score 7.93
Allegany College of Maryland
Cumberland, MD · 2,762 enrolled
Safety Score 3.26
Closest by National Rank
Rush University (national rank #2021) sits near University of California-Davis (#2020) and St. Mary's College of Maryland (#2022) on the scored national list, nearest by rank, not by size or state.
University of California-Davis
Davis, CA
National Rank #2020
St. Mary's College of Maryland
St. Mary'S City, MD
National Rank #2022
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Worcester, MA
National Rank #2023
Hartwick College
Oneonta, NY
National Rank #2019
Claremont McKenna College
Claremont, CA
National Rank #2024
Nationwide campuses with similar scale or Clery rate
Two Clery-derived peer sets for Rush University, both outside IL so the neighborhoods are not state containment (Similar Institutions and national-rank neighbors above stay enrollment- or rank-based).
Similar enrollment (nationwide)
Avila University
Kansas City, MO · 2,768 enrolled
Safety score 1.45
Indiana Institute of Technology
Fort Wayne, IN · 2,770 enrolled
Safety score 5.42
Lafayette College
Easton, PA · 2,775 enrolled
Safety score 7.93
Rivier University
Nashua, NH · 2,777 enrolled
Safety score 0.72
Indiana Institute of Technology-College of Professional Studies
Fort Wayne, IN · 2,779 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Syracuse, NY · 2,757 enrolled
Safety score 1.45
St Bonaventure University
Saint Bonaventure, NY · 2,752 enrolled
Safety score 2.91
Minot State University
Minot, ND · 2,751 enrolled
Safety score 2.54
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
St. Mary's College of Maryland
St. Mary'S City, MD · 1,630 enrolled
Safety score 15.95
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Worcester, MA · 1,489 enrolled
Safety score 16.12
University of California-Davis
Davis, CA · 40,065 enrolled
Safety score 15.52
Hartwick College
Oneonta, NY · 1,097 enrolled
Safety score 15.50
Winston-Salem State University
Winston-Salem, NC · 4,782 enrolled
Safety score 15.47
Claremont McKenna College
Claremont, CA · 1,393 enrolled
Safety score 16.51
Cleveland Institute of Art
Cleveland, OH · 545 enrolled
Safety score 16.51
Millsaps College
Jackson, MS · 593 enrolled
Safety score 15.18
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Rush University safe?
Rush University has a safety score of 15.89 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students) and ranks #2,021 nationally out of 2,072 ranked institutions - nearest similar-enrollment comparison: Indiana Institute of Technology (5.42/1k). Same-state same-level set: Wheaton College (6.26/1k); Benedictine University (1.37/1k); Augustana College (5.84/1k); Midwestern University-Downers Grove (0.00/1k); North Park University (0.78/1k); North Central College (3.00/1k); University of St Francis (0.65/1k); McKendree University (1.25/1k).
What crimes are reported at Rush University?
For calendar year 2024, Rush University reported Aggravated Assault (16), Fondling (4), Motor Vehicle Theft (3), Burglary (1) and Robbery (1) in the Criminal Offenses section. Every other category in that section was reported at zero; other Clery tables are separate.
How does Rush University compare to similar schools?
Rush University reports 340% more 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 than Indiana Institute of Technology. Scored similar-enrollment peers on this page: Indiana Institute of Technology (5.42/1k); Avila University (1.45/1k); Windward Community College (0.00/1k); Lafayette College (7.93/1k); Allegany College of Maryland (3.26/1k). Same-state same-level set: Wheaton College (6.26/1k); Benedictine University (1.37/1k); Augustana College (5.84/1k); Midwestern University-Downers Grove (0.00/1k); North Park University (0.78/1k); North Central College (3.00/1k); University of St Francis (0.65/1k); McKendree University (1.25/1k).
Does Rush University have fire safety data?
Rush University has no on-campus residential fire filing in this Clery release.
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