VT
Sterling College
35.09 incidents / 1,000 students
Craftsbury Common, VT · Clery Act 2024 · Private Nonprofit
Sterling College
Across 2022–2024, Sterling College reported 2 incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section, and the yearly count rose over that span (largest filed category: Burglary). Nearby same-state same-level comparison: Vermont College of Fine Arts.
- 35.09
- Incidents / 1k students
- 57
- Enrolled students
35.09 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Sterling College's 2024 score-category rate is 35.09 per 1,000. From 2023 to 2024, Burglary rose by 1 reported incidents, the largest category move on this profile. Same-state same-level scored peers: Vermont College of Fine Arts (0.00/1k); SIT Graduate Institute (0.00/1k); Landmark College (11.90/1k); Vermont Law and Graduate School (0.00/1k); Bennington College (63.65/1k); Saint Michael's College (10.58/1k); Middlebury College (10.70/1k); Norwich University (4.76/1k).
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- incidents / 1,000 students
- 35.09
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 1
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 231095 · Sterling College 35.09/1k score rate
RATE-HOT · RANK-UNK · ST-UNK · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-SMALL · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO
- RATE-HOT 35.09/1k
- RANK-UNK Nat rank n/a
- ST-UNK State rank n/a
- ABOVE-PEER Hatfield's Mississippi College of · +35.09
- ZERO-SMALL <500 enrolled
- TREND-UP ↑ trend
- CAT-LEAD Burglary
- ENR-SMALL 57
- FIRE-ZERO 0 fires filed
Nearest enrollment peer: Hatfield's Mississippi College of Beauty Culture (-35.09/1k)
Sterling College sheet RATE-HOT · RANK-UNK · ST-UNK · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-SMALL · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO · peer Hatfield's Mississippi College of Beauty Culture. 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-UNK · ST-UNK · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-SMALL · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is Hatfield's Mississippi College of Beauty Culture (-35.09/1k). Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Sterling College's 2024 score-category rate is 35.09 per 1,000. From 2023 to 2024, Burglary rose by 1 reported incidents, the largest category move on this profile. Same-state same-level scored peers: Vermont College of Fine Arts (0.00/1k); SIT Graduate Institute (0.00/1k); Landmark College (11.90/1k); Vermont Law and Graduate School (0.00/1k); Bennington College (63.65/1k); Saint Michael's College (10.58/1k); Middlebury College (10.70/1k); Norwich University (4.76/1k).
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Sterling College
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Sterling on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- Hatfield's Mississippi College of · lowest peer 0
Hatfield's Mississippi College of Beauty Culture — lowest peer
0 per 1,000 students
- Northern Institute of Cosmetology · near 0
Northern Institute of Cosmetology — near
0 per 1,000 students
- Ohio State School of · near 0
Ohio State School of Cosmetology-Canal Winchester — near
0 per 1,000 students
- Sterling College · this campus · highest
Sterling College — this campus · highest
35.09 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Sterling College's 35.09/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Sterling 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 12 VT 4-year peers in this comparison, Sterling College is larger than 0% and safer-reporting than 9% - 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 9, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 82
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 18, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 82
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 27, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 18
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 36, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 82
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 45, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 55, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 36
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 64, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 27
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 73, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 45
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 82, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 73
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 91, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 55
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 64
- Sterling College: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 9
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| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sterling College (this campus) | 57 | 35.09 | 0 | 9 |
| Vermont College of Fine Arts | 190 | 0.00 | 9 | 82 |
| SIT Graduate Institute | 644 | 0.00 | 18 | 82 |
| Landmark College | 672 | 11.90 | 27 | 18 |
| Vermont Law and Graduate School | 722 | 0.00 | 36 | 82 |
| Bennington College | 927 | 63.65 | 45 | 0 |
| Saint Michael's College | 1,323 | 10.58 | 55 | 36 |
| Middlebury College | 2,803 | 10.70 | 64 | 27 |
| Norwich University | 3,149 | 4.76 | 73 | 45 |
| Champlain College | 3,259 | 2.45 | 82 | 73 |
| Vermont State University | 5,093 | 4.71 | 91 | 55 |
| University of Vermont | 14,476 | 2.63 | 100 | 64 |
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 Sterling College held level. The total is unchanged, but the mix behind it is not. Rising: Burglary (0 to 1). Falling over the same period: Fondling (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 Sterling College
Across 3 reporting years, on-campus incidents were recorded in 2 Clery Act categories here: Burglary and Fondling.
The remaining 9 categories were reported with no on-campus incidents, among them Aggravated Assault, Arson, Incest and Motor Vehicle Theft. 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 onlySterling 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burglary | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Fondling | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Incest | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 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
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 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| 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).
MS
Hatfield's Mississippi College of Beauty Culture
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
OH
Northern Institute of Cosmetology
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where Sterling College sits on price and outcomes
At $21,854, Sterling College's reported average net price is cheaper than 27% among 11 Vermont colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $25,239.
- $21,854
- average net price
- $25,239
- Vermont median
- 1.2×
- six-year earnings to median debt
Median earnings six years after entry ($27,109) are less than 1.2 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
- $40,760
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $40,760
- Avg Net Price
- $21,854
- Median Debt
- $23,000
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 45%
Admissions
- Acceptance Rate
- 67%
Outcomes
- 4-Year Graduation Rate
- 38%
- Retention Rate
- 86%
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $27,109
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $30,573
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 1,004 similar institutions by enrollment size.
Hatfield's Mississippi College of Beauty Culture
Laurel, MS · 57 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Northern Institute of Cosmetology
Lorain, OH · 57 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Ohio State School of Cosmetology-Canal Winchester
Canal Winchester, OH · 57 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
State College of Beauty Culture
Wausau, WI · 57 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
John Wesley International Barber and Beauty College
Long Beach, CA · 57 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Nationwide campuses with similar scale or Clery rate
Two Clery-derived peer sets for Sterling College, both outside VT so the neighborhoods are not state containment (Similar Institutions and national-rank neighbors above stay enrollment- or rank-based).
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
United Tribes Technical College
Bismarck, ND · 576 enrolled
Safety score 34.72
Pomona College
Claremont, CA · 1,700 enrolled
Safety score 34.71
Hobart William Smith Colleges
Geneva, NY · 1,841 enrolled
Safety score 34.22
Langston University
Langston, OK · 1,937 enrolled
Safety score 36.14
Lycoming College
Williamsport, PA · 1,012 enrolled
Safety score 33.60
Indiana University-Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN · 22,534 enrolled
Safety score 36.92
Reed College
Portland, OR · 1,358 enrolled
Safety score 38.29
Shaw University
Raleigh, NC · 964 enrolled
Safety score 31.12
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Sterling College safe?
Sterling College has a safety score of 35.09 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students). With 57 enrolled students it sits under the 500-student ranking cutoff; a size peer on file is Hatfield's Mississippi College of Beauty Culture. Same-state same-level set: Vermont College of Fine Arts (0.00/1k); SIT Graduate Institute (0.00/1k); Landmark College (11.90/1k); Vermont Law and Graduate School (0.00/1k); Bennington College (63.65/1k); Saint Michael's College (10.58/1k); Middlebury College (10.70/1k); Norwich University (4.76/1k).
What crimes are reported at Sterling College?
For calendar year 2024, Sterling College reported Burglary (1) in the Criminal Offenses section. Every other category in that section was reported at zero; other Clery tables are separate.
How does Sterling College compare to similar schools?
A similar-enrollment comparison point is Hatfield's Mississippi College of Beauty Culture at 0.00 score-category incidents per 1,000 in VT; same-state same-level scored peers include Vermont College of Fine Arts (0.00/1k); SIT Graduate Institute (0.00/1k); Landmark College (11.90/1k); Vermont Law and Graduate School (0.00/1k); Bennington College (63.65/1k); Saint Michael's College (10.58/1k); Middlebury College (10.70/1k); Norwich University (4.76/1k).
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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