CA
Smith Chason College
0.41 incidents / 1,000 students
Los Angeles, CA · Clery Act 2024 · Private For-Profit
Smith Chason College
Across 2022–2024, Smith Chason College reported 2 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: United States University.
- 0.41
- Incidents / 1k students
- #263
- Rank of 2,072
- #142
- CA rank
- 2,447
- Enrolled students
0.41 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Smith Chason College reports 0.41 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 55% below Mineral Area College. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Mineral Area College (0.41/1k); Canisius University (1.63/1k); Spring Arbor University (0.82/1k); United States University (0.00/1k); Brenau University (1.64/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes United States University (0.00/1k); California Institute of Technology (13.58/1k); DeVry University-California (0.00/1k); Touro University Worldwide (0.00/1k); San Joaquin Valley College-Visalia (0.00/1k); Mount Saint Mary's University (18.60/1k); Art Center College of Design (0.00/1k); Vanguard University of Southern California (1.78/1k). 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
- 0.41
- of 2,072 ranked nationally
- #263
- safer than ranked campuses its size
- 87%
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 1
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 441229 · Smith Chason College 0.41/1k score rate · #263/2,072
RATE-QUIET · RANK-UPPER · ST-MID · PEER-FINISH · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-NONE
- RATE-QUIET 0.41/1k
- RANK-UPPER #263/2,072
- ST-MID #142 in state
- PEER-FINISH Mineral Area College · ±0.00
- ZERO-NONE Scored
- TREND-UP ↑ trend
- CAT-LEAD Aggravated Assault
- ENR-SMALL 2,447
- FIRE-NONE No res filing
Nearest enrollment peer: Mineral Area College (+0.00/1k)
Smith Chason College sheet RATE-QUIET · RANK-UPPER · ST-MID · PEER-FINISH · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-NONE · peer Mineral Area 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 · PEER-FINISH · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-NONE. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is Mineral Area College (+0.00/1k). National rank #263 of 2,072 scored campuses. Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Smith Chason College reports 0.41 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 55% below Mineral Area College. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Mineral Area College (0.41/1k); Canisius University (1.63/1k); Spring Arbor University (0.82/1k); United States University (0.00/1k); Brenau University (1.64/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes United States University (0.00/1k); California Institute of Technology (13.58/1k); DeVry University-California (0.00/1k); Touro University Worldwide (0.00/1k); San Joaquin Valley College-Visalia (0.00/1k); Mount Saint Mary's University (18.60/1k); Art Center College of Design (0.00/1k); Vanguard University of Southern California (1.78/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Aggravated Assault.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Smith Chason College
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Smith on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- United States University · lowest peer 0
United States University — lowest peer
0 per 1,000 students
- Smith Chason College · this campus 0.41
Smith Chason College — this campus
0.41 per 1,000 students
- Mineral Area College · near 0.41
Mineral Area College — near
0.41 per 1,000 students
- Spring Arbor University · near
Spring Arbor University — near
0.82 per 1,000 students
- Brenau University · highest peer
Brenau University — highest peer
1.64 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Smith Chason College's 0.41/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Smith Chason 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 CA 4-year peers in this comparison, Smith Chason College is larger than 64% and safer-reporting than 58% - 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.
Read the chart as text
- Point 1: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 67, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 61, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 11
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 58, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 56, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 50, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 6
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 47, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 44, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 39
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 69, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 72, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 42, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 75, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 39, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 36, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 78, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 81, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 31
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 33, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 18: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 83, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 19: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 31, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 20: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 28, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 36
- Point 21: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 25, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 25
- Point 22: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 86, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
- Point 23: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 19, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 24: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 19, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 17
- Point 25: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 17, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 26: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 14, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 27: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 89, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 22
- Point 28: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 92, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 64
- Point 29: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 11, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 30: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 8, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 31: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 6, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 32: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 3, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 14
- Point 33: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 94, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 34: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 97, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 28
- Point 35: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 36: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 8
- Smith Chason College: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 64, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 58
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| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claremont McKenna College | 1,393 | 16.51 | 0 | 8 |
| La Sierra University | 1,574 | 8.26 | 3 | 14 |
| CBD College | 1,581 | 0.00 | 6 | 67 |
| Pomona College | 1,700 | 34.71 | 8 | 3 |
| Claremont Graduate University | 1,771 | 2.82 | 11 | 33 |
| William Jessup University | 1,865 | 1.07 | 14 | 47 |
| California Institute of Integral Studies | 1,874 | 1.60 | 17 | 42 |
| Los Angeles Pacific University | 1,881 | 0.00 | 19 | 67 |
| Occidental College | 1,881 | 7.97 | 19 | 17 |
| Fuller Theological Seminary | 1,890 | 4.23 | 25 | 25 |
| Dominican University of California | 1,900 | 2.63 | 28 | 36 |
| Smith Chason College (this campus) | 2,447 | 0.41 | 64 | 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 Smith Chason 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: Aggravated Assault (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 Smith Chason College
Across 3 reporting years, on-campus incidents were recorded in 2 Clery Act categories here: Aggravated Assault and Motor Vehicle Theft.
The remaining 9 categories were reported with no on-campus incidents, among them Arson, Burglary, 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 onlySmith Chason College: Criminal Offenses by year
Rising
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| Period | On-campus incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 |
| Crime Type | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aggravated Assault | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 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 |
| 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
36 category-year records| Category | Year | Arrests | Discipline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drugs | 2024 | 1 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
Smith Chason 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).
MO
Mineral Area College
0.41 incidents / 1,000 students
NY
Canisius University
1.63 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where Smith Chason College sits on price and outcomes
At $34,367, Smith Chason College's reported average net price is cheaper than 87% among 492 California colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $20,161.
- $34,367
- average net price
- $20,161
- California median
- 2.3×
- six-year earnings to median debt
- $6,330
- reported income-bracket spread
Price barely responds to income at this institution. Families under $30,000 report $32,969 and those above $110,000 report $39,299, a difference of just $6,330. 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.
Median earnings six years after entry ($48,956) are less than 1.4 years of the reported net price. That is a thin margin, and it is the figure worth pressing the school on before enrolling.
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
- $19,040
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $19,040
- Avg Net Price
- $34,367
- Median Debt
- $21,397
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 59%
Outcomes
- 4-Year Graduation Rate
- 64%
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $48,956
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $58,004
- Loan Repayment (3yr)
- 52%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 1,276 similar institutions by enrollment size.
Mineral Area College
Park Hills, MO · 2,447 enrolled
Safety Score 0.41
Canisius University
Buffalo, NY · 2,451 enrolled
Safety Score 1.63
Spring Arbor University
Spring Arbor, MI · 2,441 enrolled
Safety Score 0.82
United States University
San Diego, CA · 2,454 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Brenau University
Gainesville, GA · 2,436 enrolled
Safety Score 1.64
Closest by National Rank
Smith Chason College (national rank #263) sits near Fullerton College (#264) and Mineral Area College (#262) 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 Smith Chason College, both outside CA so the neighborhoods are not state containment (Similar Institutions and national-rank neighbors above stay enrollment- or rank-based).
Similar enrollment (nationwide)
Canisius University
Buffalo, NY · 2,451 enrolled
Safety score 1.63
Spring Arbor University
Spring Arbor, MI · 2,441 enrolled
Safety score 0.82
Brenau University
Gainesville, GA · 2,436 enrolled
Safety score 1.64
Edgewood College
Madison, WI · 2,459 enrolled
Safety score 1.63
University of Mount Union
Alliance, OH · 2,461 enrolled
Safety score 0.41
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY · 2,462 enrolled
Safety score 10.15
Felician University
Lodi, NJ · 2,427 enrolled
Safety score 4.12
Southern University at New Orleans
New Orleans, LA · 2,468 enrolled
Safety score 3.24
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
Vincennes University
Vincennes, IN · 19,795 enrolled
Safety score 0.40
Clark College
Vancouver, WA · 7,463 enrolled
Safety score 0.40
Galveston College
Galveston, TX · 2,405 enrolled
Safety score 0.42
Immaculata University
Immaculata, PA · 2,512 enrolled
Safety score 0.40
Regis College
Weston, MA · 2,517 enrolled
Safety score 0.40
Thomas More University
Crestview Hills, KY · 2,350 enrolled
Safety score 0.43
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
New Orleans, LA · 2,349 enrolled
Safety score 0.43
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Smith Chason College safe?
Smith Chason College has a safety score of 0.41 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students) and ranks #263 nationally out of 2,072 ranked institutions - nearest similar-enrollment comparison: Mineral Area College (0.41/1k). Same-state same-level set: United States University (0.00/1k); California Institute of Technology (13.58/1k); DeVry University-California (0.00/1k); Touro University Worldwide (0.00/1k); San Joaquin Valley College-Visalia (0.00/1k); Mount Saint Mary's University (18.60/1k); Art Center College of Design (0.00/1k); Vanguard University of Southern California (1.78/1k).
What crimes are reported at Smith Chason College?
For calendar year 2024, Smith Chason 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 Smith Chason College compare to similar schools?
Smith Chason College reports 55% fewer 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 than Mineral Area College. Scored similar-enrollment peers on this page: Mineral Area College (0.41/1k); Canisius University (1.63/1k); Spring Arbor University (0.82/1k); United States University (0.00/1k); Brenau University (1.64/1k). Same-state same-level set: United States University (0.00/1k); California Institute of Technology (13.58/1k); DeVry University-California (0.00/1k); Touro University Worldwide (0.00/1k); San Joaquin Valley College-Visalia (0.00/1k); Mount Saint Mary's University (18.60/1k); Art Center College of Design (0.00/1k); Vanguard University of Southern California (1.78/1k).
Does Smith Chason College have fire safety data?
Smith Chason College has no on-campus residential fire filing in this Clery release.
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