NC
Shaw University
31.12 incidents / 1,000 students
Raleigh, NC · Clery Act 2024 · Private Nonprofit
Shaw University
Across 2022–2024, Shaw University reported 35 incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section, and the yearly count rose over that span (largest filed category: Aggravated Assault). Nearby same-state same-level comparison: Montreat College.
- 31.12
- Incidents / 1k students
- #2,059
- Rank of 2,072
- #112
- NC rank
- 964
- Enrolled students
31.12 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Shaw University reports 31.12 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 1055% above Lourdes University. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Lourdes University (0.00/1k); Clarke University (4.16/1k); Montana State University-Northern (0.00/1k); Montreat College (1.04/1k); Morehouse School of Medicine (8.27/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Montreat College (1.04/1k); Greensboro College (8.27/1k); Livingstone College (5.34/1k); Cabarrus College of Health Sciences (0.00/1k); Lees-McRae College (7.69/1k); Pfeiffer University (0.00/1k); Carolina University (0.00/1k); Brevard College (2.29/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Aggravated Assault.
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- incidents / 1,000 students
- 31.12
- of 2,072 ranked nationally
- #2,059
- report fewer incidents than this campus
- 99%
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 29
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 199643 · Shaw University 31.12/1k score rate · #2,059/2,072
RATE-HOT · RANK-BOTTOM · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO
- RATE-HOT 31.12/1k
- RANK-BOTTOM #2,059/2,072
- ST-MID #112 in state
- ABOVE-PEER Morehouse School of Medicine · +22.85
- ZERO-NONE Scored
- TREND-UP ↑ 625%
- CAT-LEAD Aggravated Assault
- ENR-SMALL 964
- FIRE-ZERO 0 fires filed
Nearest enrollment peer: Morehouse School of Medicine (-22.85/1k)
Shaw University sheet RATE-HOT · RANK-BOTTOM · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO · peer Morehouse School of Medicine. 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-ZERO. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is Morehouse School of Medicine (-22.85/1k). National rank #2,059 of 2,072 scored campuses. Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Shaw University reports 31.12 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 1055% above Lourdes University. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Lourdes University (0.00/1k); Clarke University (4.16/1k); Montana State University-Northern (0.00/1k); Montreat College (1.04/1k); Morehouse School of Medicine (8.27/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Montreat College (1.04/1k); Greensboro College (8.27/1k); Livingstone College (5.34/1k); Cabarrus College of Health Sciences (0.00/1k); Lees-McRae College (7.69/1k); Pfeiffer University (0.00/1k); Carolina University (0.00/1k); Brevard College (2.29/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Aggravated Assault.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Shaw University
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Shaw on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- Lourdes University · lowest peer 0
Lourdes University — lowest peer
0 per 1,000 students
- Montreat College · near 1.04
Montreat College — near
1.04 per 1,000 students
- Clarke University · near 4.16
Clarke University — near
4.16 per 1,000 students
- Morehouse School of Medicine · near 8.27
Morehouse School of Medicine — near
8.27 per 1,000 students
- Shaw University · this campus · highest
Shaw University — this campus · highest
31.12 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Shaw University's 31.12/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Shaw University increased from 2 to 29 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 NC 4-year peers in this comparison, Shaw University is larger than 64% 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.
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- Point 1: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 61, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 58
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 67, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 17
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 58, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 36
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 56, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 50, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 47, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 44, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 69, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 39
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 72, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 42, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 75, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 78, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 39, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 31
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 81, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 36, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 6
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 33, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 18: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 83, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 19: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 86, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 22
- Point 20: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 31, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 8
- Point 21: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 89, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 28
- Point 22: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 92, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 23: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 94, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 24: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 97, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 25
- Point 25: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 28, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 26: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 25, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 27: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 22, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 28: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 19, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 29: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 17, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 30: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 14, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 11
- Point 31: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 11, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 32: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 8, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 33: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 6, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 34: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 3, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 35: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 14
- Point 36: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Shaw University: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 64, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
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| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daoist Traditions College of Chinese Medical Arts | 102 | 0.00 | 0 | 61 |
| Hood Theological Seminary | 115 | 0.00 | 3 | 61 |
| Watts College of Nursing | 124 | 0.00 | 6 | 61 |
| Mid-Atlantic Christian University | 140 | 0.00 | 8 | 61 |
| Saint Augustine's University | 175 | 0.00 | 11 | 61 |
| Bennett College | 180 | 11.11 | 14 | 11 |
| Shepherds Theological Seminary | 201 | 0.00 | 17 | 61 |
| Chamberlain University-North Carolina | 202 | 0.00 | 19 | 61 |
| Carolina College of Biblical Studies | 212 | 0.00 | 22 | 61 |
| Galen Health Institutes-Asheville | 253 | 0.00 | 25 | 61 |
| Manna University | 268 | 0.00 | 28 | 61 |
| Shaw University (this campus) | 964 | 31.12 | 64 | 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 Shaw University rose from 2 to 29 (+1350%). The increase shows up in Aggravated Assault (1 to 8), Motor Vehicle Theft (0 to 7) and Robbery (0 to 7).
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 Shaw University
Across 3 reporting years, on-campus incidents were recorded in 5 Clery Act categories here: Aggravated Assault, Burglary, Robbery, Motor Vehicle Theft and Rape.
The remaining 6 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 onlyShaw University: Criminal Offenses by year
Rising 625% (4 → 29 incidents)
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| Period | On-campus incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 4 |
| 2023 | 2 |
| 2024 | 29 |
| Crime Type | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aggravated Assault | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| Burglary | 5 | 1 | 3 |
| Robbery | 7 | 0 | 1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 2 | 0 | 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 |
| 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 | 1 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 1 | 1 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 10 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 3 |
| Weapons | 2023 | 0 | 1 |
| Drugs | 2022 | 1 | 16 |
| Liquor | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2022 | 2 | 2 |
Shaw 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).
OH
Lourdes University
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
IA
Clarke University
4.16 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where Shaw University sits on price and outcomes
At $16,512, Shaw University's reported average net price is cheaper than 58% among 145 North Carolina colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $14,086.
- $16,512
- average net price
- $14,086
- North Carolina median
- 0.8×
- six-year earnings to median debt
- $8,730
- reported income-bracket spread
Net price moves with income here, but not sharply: $16,236 for families reporting under $30,000 against $24,966 above $110,000, a difference of $8,730. Aid narrows the gap without closing it, so the $16,512 average sits reasonably close to what most brackets report.
Six-year median earnings of $26,148 run about 1.6 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
- $17,538
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $17,538
- Avg Net Price
- $16,512
- Median Debt
- $32,500
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 66%
Admissions
- Acceptance Rate
- 80%
Outcomes
- 4-Year Graduation Rate
- 21%
- Retention Rate
- 52%
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $26,148
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $34,409
- Loan Repayment (3yr)
- 29%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 1,226 similar institutions by enrollment size.
Lourdes University
Sylvania, OH · 964 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Clarke University
Dubuque, IA · 962 enrolled
Safety Score 4.16
Montana State University-Northern
Havre, MT · 966 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Montreat College
Montreat, NC · 962 enrolled
Safety Score 1.04
Morehouse School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA · 967 enrolled
Safety Score 8.27
Closest by National Rank
Shaw University (national rank #2059) sits near Westminster College (#2058) and Lycoming College (#2060) 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 Shaw University, both outside NC so the neighborhoods are not state containment (Similar Institutions and national-rank neighbors above stay enrollment- or rank-based).
Similar enrollment (nationwide)
Lourdes University
Sylvania, OH · 964 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Clarke University
Dubuque, IA · 962 enrolled
Safety score 4.16
Montana State University-Northern
Havre, MT · 966 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Morehouse School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA · 967 enrolled
Safety score 8.27
West Coast University-Miami
Doral, FL · 961 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
William James College
Newton, MA · 967 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Blue Mountain Christian University
Blue Mountain, MS · 968 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Hilbert College
Hamburg, NY · 968 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
Westminster College
Fulton, MO · 640 enrolled
Safety score 29.69
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX · 2,549 enrolled
Safety score 29.03
Lycoming College
Williamsport, PA · 1,012 enrolled
Safety score 33.60
North Central University
Minneapolis, MN · 852 enrolled
Safety score 28.17
Hobart William Smith Colleges
Geneva, NY · 1,841 enrolled
Safety score 34.22
Pomona College
Claremont, CA · 1,700 enrolled
Safety score 34.71
United Tribes Technical College
Bismarck, ND · 576 enrolled
Safety score 34.72
Lane College
Jackson, TN · 738 enrolled
Safety score 27.10
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Shaw University safe?
Shaw University has a safety score of 31.12 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students) and ranks #2,059 nationally out of 2,072 ranked institutions - nearest similar-enrollment comparison: Lourdes University (0.00/1k). Same-state same-level set: Montreat College (1.04/1k); Greensboro College (8.27/1k); Livingstone College (5.34/1k); Cabarrus College of Health Sciences (0.00/1k); Lees-McRae College (7.69/1k); Pfeiffer University (0.00/1k); Carolina University (0.00/1k); Brevard College (2.29/1k).
What crimes are reported at Shaw University?
For calendar year 2024, Shaw University reported Aggravated Assault (8), Motor Vehicle Theft (7), Robbery (7), Burglary (5) and Rape (2) in the Criminal Offenses section. Every other category in that section was reported at zero; other Clery tables are separate.
How does Shaw University compare to similar schools?
Shaw University reports 1055% more 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 than Lourdes University. Scored similar-enrollment peers on this page: Lourdes University (0.00/1k); Clarke University (4.16/1k); Montana State University-Northern (0.00/1k); Montreat College (1.04/1k); Morehouse School of Medicine (8.27/1k). Same-state same-level set: Montreat College (1.04/1k); Greensboro College (8.27/1k); Livingstone College (5.34/1k); Cabarrus College of Health Sciences (0.00/1k); Lees-McRae College (7.69/1k); Pfeiffer University (0.00/1k); Carolina University (0.00/1k); Brevard College (2.29/1k).
Does Shaw University have fire safety data?
Yes. Shaw 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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