KS
Sterling College
4.32 incidents / 1,000 students
Sterling, KS · Clery Act 2024 · Private Nonprofit
Sterling College
Sterling College reported zero incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section for 2022–2024. Other Clery tables can still contain reports, and zero here does not mean no risk.
- 4.32
- Incidents / 1k students
- #1,534
- Rank of 2,072
- #43
- KS rank
- 694
- Enrolled students
4.32 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Sterling College reported zero 2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents in the score categories (0.00 per 1,000). Zero in those categories is not a safety proof, other Clery tables and unreported harm can still exist, and zero-report campuses are left unranked against each other.
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- incidents / 1,000 students
- 4.32
- of 2,072 ranked nationally
- #1,534
- report fewer incidents than this campus
- 74%
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 0
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 155937 · Sterling College 4.32/1k score rate · #1,534/2,072
RATE-HIGH · RANK-LOWER · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-FLAT · CAT-NONE · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO
- RATE-HIGH 4.32/1k
- RANK-LOWER #1,534/2,072
- ST-MID #43 in state
- ABOVE-PEER Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro · +4.32
- ZERO-NONE Scored
- TREND-FLAT Flat
- CAT-NONE No incidents
- ENR-SMALL 694
- FIRE-ZERO 0 fires filed
Nearest enrollment peer: Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro (-4.32/1k)
Sterling College sheet RATE-HIGH · RANK-LOWER · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-FLAT · CAT-NONE · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO · peer Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro. 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-LOWER · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-FLAT · CAT-NONE · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro (-4.32/1k). National rank #1,534 of 2,072 scored campuses. Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Sterling College reported zero 2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents in the score categories (0.00 per 1,000). Zero in those categories is not a safety proof, other Clery tables and unreported harm can still exist, and zero-report campuses are left unranked against each other.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Sterling College
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Sterling on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro · lowest peer 0
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro — lowest peer
0 per 1,000 students
- H W Brewster Technical · near 0
H W Brewster Technical College — near
0 per 1,000 students
- Chamberlain University-Arizona · near 0
Chamberlain University-Arizona — near
0 per 1,000 students
- Sterling College · this campus · highest
Sterling College — this campus · highest
4.32 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Sterling College's 4.32/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Sterling College was unchanged from 0 to 0 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 33 KS 4-year peers in this comparison, Sterling College is larger than 44% and safer-reporting than 28% - 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.
Read the chart as text
- Point 1: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 41, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 38, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 25
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 34, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 69
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 31, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 84
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 47, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 13
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 28, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 25, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 31
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 50, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 9
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 22, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 63
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 19, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 84
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 75
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 16, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 56, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 84
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 13, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 84
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 59, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 9, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 84
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 6, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 84
- Point 18: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 3, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 6
- Point 19: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
- Point 20: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 63, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 22
- Point 21: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 66, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 34
- Point 22: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 69, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 38
- Point 23: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 72, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 41
- Point 24: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 75, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 66
- Point 25: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 78, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 81
- Point 26: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 81, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 27: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 84, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 28: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 88, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 72
- Point 29: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 91, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 78
- Point 30: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 94, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 31: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 97, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 59
- Point 32: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 16
- Sterling College: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 44, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 28
Read the chart as a table
| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Paul School of Theology | 91 | 241.76 | 0 | 0 |
| Kansas Christian College | 145 | 13.79 | 3 | 6 |
| Manhattan Christian College | 160 | 0.00 | 6 | 84 |
| Barclay College | 219 | 0.00 | 9 | 84 |
| Rasmussen University-Kansas | 359 | 0.00 | 13 | 84 |
| Hesston College | 373 | 21.45 | 16 | 3 |
| Donnelly College | 395 | 0.00 | 19 | 84 |
| Kansas Health Science University | 401 | 2.49 | 22 | 63 |
| Central Christian College of Kansas | 469 | 4.26 | 25 | 31 |
| Bethel College-North Newton | 509 | 5.89 | 28 | 19 |
| Ottawa University-Kansas City | 528 | 0.00 | 31 | 84 |
| Sterling College (this campus) | 694 | 4.32 | 44 | 28 |
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.
Crime Statistics by Year
The Criminal Offenses section for Sterling College is all zeros for 2024, 2023, 2022 - under Clery those are affirmative "no incident" reports, not missing rows. Enrollment peer in this dataset: Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro.
Source: US Dept of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey. Zero-filled category grids are omitted when every cell is zero (progressive surface); other Clery tables remain below when present
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 | 5 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 12 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 10 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 16 |
| Weapons | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2022 | 0 | 5 |
| Liquor | 2022 | 0 | 8 |
| Weapons | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
Sterling 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
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
FL
H W Brewster Technical College
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where Sterling College sits on price and outcomes
At $22,371, Sterling College's reported average net price is cheaper than 74% among 72 Kansas colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $15,313.
- $22,371
- average net price
- $15,313
- Kansas median
- 1.7×
- six-year earnings to median debt
- $7,534
- reported income-bracket spread
Net price moves with income here, but not sharply: $19,068 for families reporting under $30,000 against $26,602 above $110,000, a difference of $7,534. Aid narrows the gap without closing it, so the $22,371 average sits reasonably close to what most brackets report.
Six-year median earnings of $40,722 run about 1.8 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
- $33,700
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $33,700
- Avg Net Price
- $22,371
- Median Debt
- $24,625
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 37%
Admissions
- Acceptance Rate
- 48%
- ACT Average
- 22
Outcomes
- 4-Year Graduation Rate
- 34%
- Retention Rate
- 50%
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $40,722
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $45,846
- Loan Repayment (3yr)
- 79%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 1,154 similar institutions by enrollment size.
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro
Hasbrouck Heights, NJ · 695 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
H W Brewster Technical College
Tampa, FL · 695 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Chamberlain University-Arizona
Phoenix, AZ · 693 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Inter American University of Puerto Rico-School of Law
San Juan, PR · 692 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences
Tempe, AZ · 692 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Closest by National Rank
Sterling College (national rank #1534) sits near Aquinas College (#1533) and Longwood University (#1535) 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 Sterling College, both outside KS so the neighborhoods are not state containment (Similar Institutions and national-rank neighbors above stay enrollment- or rank-based).
Similar enrollment (nationwide)
Chamberlain University-Arizona
Phoenix, AZ · 693 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Charleston School of Law
Charleston, SC · 692 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Inter American University of Puerto Rico-School of Law
San Juan, PR · 692 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Bay Mills Community College
Brimley, MI · 698 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Brescia University
Owensboro, KY · 690 enrolled
Safety score 8.70
Good Samaritan College of Nursing and Health Science
Cincinnati, OH · 690 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Universidad Central de Bayamon
Bayamã³N, PR · 698 enrolled
Safety score 1.43
Humphreys University-Stockton and Modesto Campuses
Stockton, CA · 699 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
Aquinas College
Grand Rapids, MI · 1,157 enrolled
Safety score 4.32
Nichols College
Dudley, MA · 1,392 enrolled
Safety score 4.31
Longwood University
Farmville, VA · 4,612 enrolled
Safety score 4.34
Missouri Western State University
Saint Joseph, MO · 3,716 enrolled
Safety score 4.31
University of Nevada-Reno
Reno, NV · 23,024 enrolled
Safety score 4.34
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, IL · 1,837 enrolled
Safety score 4.35
Kalamazoo College
Kalamazoo, MI · 1,166 enrolled
Safety score 4.29
Columbus College of Art & Design
Columbus, OH · 916 enrolled
Safety score 4.37
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Sterling College safe?
Sterling College has a safety score of 4.32 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students) and ranks #1,534 nationally out of 2,072 ranked institutions - nearest similar-enrollment comparison: Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro (0.00/1k). Same-state same-level set: Tabor College (3.22/1k); Bethany College (4.88/1k); Cleveland University-Kansas City (1.70/1k); Ottawa University-Kansas City (0.00/1k); McPherson College (10.25/1k); Bethel College-North Newton (5.89/1k); Central Christian College of Kansas (4.26/1k); Haskell Indian Nations University (13.29/1k).
What crimes are reported at Sterling College?
None in the Criminal Offenses section. Sterling College reported zero in every category in that section for calendar year 2024. VAWA, arrests, disciplinary referrals, and fire records are separate tables.
How does Sterling College compare to similar schools?
A similar-enrollment comparison point is Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro at 0.00 score-category incidents per 1,000 in KS; same-state same-level scored peers include Tabor College (3.22/1k); Bethany College (4.88/1k); Cleveland University-Kansas City (1.70/1k); Ottawa University-Kansas City (0.00/1k); McPherson College (10.25/1k); Bethel College-North Newton (5.89/1k); Central Christian College of Kansas (4.26/1k); Haskell Indian Nations University (13.29/1k).
Does Sterling College have fire safety data?
Yes. Sterling 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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