TX
Sul Ross State University
2.52 incidents / 1,000 students
Alpine, TX · Clery Act 2024 · Public
Sul Ross State University
Across 2022–2024, Sul Ross State University reported 20 incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section, and the yearly count fell over that span (largest filed category: Burglary). Nearby same-state same-level comparison: Texas A&M University-Central Texas.
- 2.52
- Incidents / 1k students
- #1,183
- Rank of 2,072
- #143
- TX rank
- 2,384
- Enrolled students
2.52 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Sul Ross State University reports 2.52 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 0% above Richmond Community College. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Richmond Community College (0.00/1k); Richland Community College (0.00/1k); Cascadia College (2.52/1k); Augustana University (8.79/1k); McKendree University (1.25/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Texas A&M University-Central Texas (1.66/1k); Galveston College (0.42/1k); Texas A&M University-Texarkana (6.63/1k); University of North Texas Health Science Center (0.86/1k); Parker University (0.43/1k); Texas Wesleyan University (6.84/1k); Chamberlain University-Texas (0.44/1k); Strayer University-Texas (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Burglary.
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- incidents / 1,000 students
- 2.52
- of 2,072 ranked nationally
- #1,183
- report fewer incidents than this campus
- 57%
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 4
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 228501 · Sul Ross State University 2.52/1k score rate · #1,183/2,072
RATE-MID · RANK-LOWER · ST-MID · PEER-FINISH · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO
- RATE-MID 2.52/1k
- RANK-LOWER #1,183/2,072
- ST-MID #143 in state
- PEER-FINISH Cascadia College · ±0.00
- ZERO-NONE Scored
- TREND-DOWN ↓ 20%
- CAT-LEAD Burglary
- ENR-SMALL 2,384
- FIRE-ZERO 0 fires filed
Nearest enrollment peer: Cascadia College (+0.00/1k)
Sul Ross State University sheet RATE-MID · RANK-LOWER · ST-MID · PEER-FINISH · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO · peer Cascadia 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-MID · RANK-LOWER · ST-MID · PEER-FINISH · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is Cascadia College (+0.00/1k). National rank #1,183 of 2,072 scored campuses. Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Sul Ross State University reports 2.52 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 0% above Richmond Community College. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Richmond Community College (0.00/1k); Richland Community College (0.00/1k); Cascadia College (2.52/1k); Augustana University (8.79/1k); McKendree University (1.25/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Texas A&M University-Central Texas (1.66/1k); Galveston College (0.42/1k); Texas A&M University-Texarkana (6.63/1k); University of North Texas Health Science Center (0.86/1k); Parker University (0.43/1k); Texas Wesleyan University (6.84/1k); Chamberlain University-Texas (0.44/1k); Strayer University-Texas (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Burglary.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Sul Ross State
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Sul on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- Richmond Community College · lowest peer 0
Richmond Community College — lowest peer
0 per 1,000 students
- McKendree University · near 1.25
McKendree University — near
1.25 per 1,000 students
- Sul Ross State University · this campus 2.52
Sul Ross State University — this campus
2.52 per 1,000 students
- Cascadia College · near 2.52
Cascadia College — near
2.52 per 1,000 students
- Augustana University · highest peer
Augustana University — highest peer
8.79 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Sul Ross State University's 2.52/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Sul Ross State University decreased from 11 to 4 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 TX 4-year peers in this comparison, Sul Ross State University is larger than 53% and safer-reporting than 39% - 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 56, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 58, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 78
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 61, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 17
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 50, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 47, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 75
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 64, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 14
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 44, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 72
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 67, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 83
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 69, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 72, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 81
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 42, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 83
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 75, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 31
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 39, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 69
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 36, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 58
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 78, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 28
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 33, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 83
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 81, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 83
- Point 18: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 31, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 36
- Point 19: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 28, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 20: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 25, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 21: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 83, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 22: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 22, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 23: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 19, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 24: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 86, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 25: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 17, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 83
- Point 26: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 89, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 11
- Point 27: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 92, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 22
- Point 28: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 14, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 8
- Point 29: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 94, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 83
- Point 30: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 11, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 6
- Point 31: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 8, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 64
- Point 32: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 6, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 25
- Point 33: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 97, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 34: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 3, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 35: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 83
- Point 36: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Sul Ross State University: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 39
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| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Western Technical College | 1,206 | 0.00 | 0 | 83 |
| Austin College | 1,217 | 2.47 | 3 | 42 |
| Schreiner University | 1,326 | 6.03 | 6 | 25 |
| Concordia University Texas | 1,396 | 0.72 | 8 | 64 |
| Texas Lutheran University | 1,423 | 10.54 | 11 | 6 |
| Southwestern University | 1,440 | 10.42 | 14 | 8 |
| Galen Health Institutes-Houston | 1,582 | 0.00 | 17 | 83 |
| Lubbock Christian University | 1,595 | 0.63 | 19 | 67 |
| Hardin-Simmons University | 1,665 | 4.20 | 22 | 33 |
| Baylor College of Medicine | 1,774 | 1.69 | 25 | 50 |
| Nelson University | 1,794 | 1.67 | 28 | 53 |
| Sul Ross State University (this campus) | 2,384 | 2.52 | 53 | 39 |
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 Sul Ross State University fell from 11 to 4 (-64%). The decrease shows up in Burglary (7 to 3), Rape (2 to 0) and 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 Sul Ross State University
Across 3 reporting years, on-campus incidents were recorded in 4 Clery Act categories here: Burglary, Aggravated Assault, Fondling and Rape. Burglary accounts for most of them.
The remaining 7 categories were reported with no on-campus incidents, among them Arson, Incest, Motor Vehicle Theft 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 onlySul Ross State University: Criminal Offenses by year
Declining 20% (5 → 4 incidents)
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| Period | On-campus incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2023 | 11 |
| 2024 | 4 |
| Crime Type | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burglary | 3 | 7 | 4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Fondling | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 2 | 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 |
| 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
36 category-year records| Category | Year | Arrests | Discipline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 1 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 1 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 18 |
Sul Ross State 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).
NC
Richmond Community College
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
IL
Richland Community College
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where Sul Ross State University sits on price and outcomes
At $13,286, Sul Ross State University's reported average net price is cheaper than 33% among 337 Texas colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $18,267.
- $13,286
- average net price
- $18,267
- Texas median
- 2.2×
- six-year earnings to median debt
- $9,169
- reported income-bracket spread
Aid here is steeply income-scaled. Families reporting under $30,000 of income record a net price of $11,110, while those above $110,000 record $20,279 - roughly 1.8 times as much. A published average of $13,286 therefore describes very few families well; the bracket nearest your own income is the more useful figure.
Median reported earnings six years after entry are $34,340, roughly 2.6 times a year of net price. That is a workable ratio, though it says nothing about how long the programme takes to finish.
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
- $7,592
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $17,672
- Avg Net Price
- $13,286
- Median Debt
- $15,900
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 58%
Admissions
- Acceptance Rate
- 99%
- SAT Average
- 1024
- SAT Math Range
- 460-560
- ACT Average
- 16
- ACT Range
- 15-24
Outcomes
- 4-Year Graduation Rate
- 29%
- Retention Rate
- 45%
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $34,340
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $41,871
- Loan Repayment (3yr)
- 56%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 1,287 similar institutions by enrollment size.
Richmond Community College
Hamlet, NC · 2,384 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Richland Community College
Decatur, IL · 2,388 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Cascadia College
Bothell, WA · 2,380 enrolled
Safety Score 2.52
Augustana University
Sioux Falls, SD · 2,390 enrolled
Safety Score 8.79
McKendree University
Lebanon, IL · 2,392 enrolled
Safety Score 1.25
Closest by National Rank
Sul Ross State University (national rank #1183) sits near Wichita State University (#1182) and Cascadia College (#1184) 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 Sul Ross State University, both outside TX so the neighborhoods are not state containment (Similar Institutions and national-rank neighbors above stay enrollment- or rank-based).
Similar enrollment (nationwide)
Cascadia College
Bothell, WA · 2,380 enrolled
Safety score 2.52
Augustana University
Sioux Falls, SD · 2,390 enrolled
Safety score 8.79
McKendree University
Lebanon, IL · 2,392 enrolled
Safety score 1.25
Denison University
Granville, OH · 2,394 enrolled
Safety score 11.28
University of Puerto Rico at Ponce
Ponce, PR · 2,373 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology
Okmulgee, OK · 2,396 enrolled
Safety score 2.50
Mid-America Christian University
Oklahoma City, OK · 2,397 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Altoona
Altoona, PA · 2,371 enrolled
Safety score 9.70
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
Wichita State University
Wichita, KS · 16,689 enrolled
Safety score 2.52
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS · 20,295 enrolled
Safety score 2.51
Emmanuel College
Boston, MA · 1,983 enrolled
Safety score 2.52
Western Colorado University
Gunnison, CO · 3,568 enrolled
Safety score 2.52
Warren Wilson College
Swannanoa, NC · 791 enrolled
Safety score 2.53
University of Wisconsin-Platteville
Platteville, WI · 6,389 enrolled
Safety score 2.50
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Sul Ross State University safe?
Sul Ross State University has a safety score of 2.52 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students) and ranks #1,183 nationally out of 2,072 ranked institutions - nearest similar-enrollment comparison: Richmond Community College (0.00/1k). Same-state same-level set: Texas A&M University-Central Texas (1.66/1k); Galveston College (0.42/1k); Texas A&M University-Texarkana (6.63/1k); University of North Texas Health Science Center (0.86/1k); Parker University (0.43/1k); Texas Wesleyan University (6.84/1k); Chamberlain University-Texas (0.44/1k); Strayer University-Texas (0.00/1k).
What crimes are reported at Sul Ross State University?
For calendar year 2024, Sul Ross State University reported Burglary (3) and Fondling (1) in the Criminal Offenses section. Every other category in that section was reported at zero; other Clery tables are separate.
How does Sul Ross State University compare to similar schools?
Sul Ross State University reports 0% more 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 than Richmond Community College. Scored similar-enrollment peers on this page: Richmond Community College (0.00/1k); Richland Community College (0.00/1k); Cascadia College (2.52/1k); Augustana University (8.79/1k); McKendree University (1.25/1k). Same-state same-level set: Texas A&M University-Central Texas (1.66/1k); Galveston College (0.42/1k); Texas A&M University-Texarkana (6.63/1k); University of North Texas Health Science Center (0.86/1k); Parker University (0.43/1k); Texas Wesleyan University (6.84/1k); Chamberlain University-Texas (0.44/1k); Strayer University-Texas (0.00/1k).
Does Sul Ross State University have fire safety data?
Yes. Sul Ross State 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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