OH
The College of Wooster
9.21 incidents / 1,000 students
Wooster, OH · Clery Act 2024 · Private Nonprofit
The College of Wooster
Across 2022–2024, The College of Wooster reported 43 incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section, and the yearly count fell over that span (largest filed category: Rape). Nearby same-state same-level comparison: Kent State University at Ashtabula.
- 9.21
- Incidents / 1k students
- #1,906
- Rank of 2,072
- #117
- OH rank
- 1,738
- Enrolled students
9.21 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
The College of Wooster reports 9.21 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 373% above Kent State University at Ashtabula. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Kent State University at Ashtabula (0.00/1k); College of Micronesia-FSM (1.16/1k); Cecil College (0.00/1k); Montcalm Community College (0.00/1k); Muskingum University (8.57/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Kent State University at Ashtabula (0.00/1k); Muskingum University (8.57/1k); Ohio University-Southern Campus (0.00/1k); Zane State College (0.00/1k); Mount Vernon Nazarene University (2.99/1k); Kent State University at Salem (0.00/1k); Ohio Wesleyan University (9.84/1k); Ohio University-Zanesville Campus (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Rape.
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- incidents / 1,000 students
- 9.21
- of 2,072 ranked nationally
- #1,906
- report fewer incidents than this campus
- 92%
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 9
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 206589 · The College of Wooster 9.21/1k score rate · #1,906/2,072
RATE-HOT · RANK-BOTTOM · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO
- RATE-HOT 9.21/1k
- RANK-BOTTOM #1,906/2,072
- ST-MID #117 in state
- ABOVE-PEER Muskingum University · +0.64
- ZERO-NONE Scored
- TREND-DOWN ↓ 50%
- CAT-LEAD Rape
- ENR-SMALL 1,738
- FIRE-ZERO 0 fires filed
Nearest enrollment peer: Muskingum University (-0.64/1k)
The College of Wooster sheet RATE-HOT · RANK-BOTTOM · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO · peer Muskingum University. 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-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is Muskingum University (-0.64/1k). National rank #1,906 of 2,072 scored campuses. Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
The College of Wooster reports 9.21 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 373% above Kent State University at Ashtabula. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Kent State University at Ashtabula (0.00/1k); College of Micronesia-FSM (1.16/1k); Cecil College (0.00/1k); Montcalm Community College (0.00/1k); Muskingum University (8.57/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Kent State University at Ashtabula (0.00/1k); Muskingum University (8.57/1k); Ohio University-Southern Campus (0.00/1k); Zane State College (0.00/1k); Mount Vernon Nazarene University (2.99/1k); Kent State University at Salem (0.00/1k); Ohio Wesleyan University (9.84/1k); Ohio University-Zanesville Campus (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Rape.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around The College of
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest The on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- Kent State University at · lowest peer 0
Kent State University at Ashtabula — lowest peer
0 per 1,000 students
- College of Micronesia-FSM · near 1.16
College of Micronesia-FSM — near
1.16 per 1,000 students
- Muskingum University · near
Muskingum University — near
8.57 per 1,000 students
- The College of Wooster · this campus · highest
The College of Wooster — this campus · highest
9.21 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around The College of Wooster's 9.21/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
The College of Wooster decreased from 16 to 9 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 OH 4-year peers in this comparison, The College of Wooster is larger than 50% and safer-reporting than 8% - 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 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 56, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 14
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 47, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 58, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 44, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 28
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 42, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 39, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 6
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 61, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 64, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 36, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 67, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 69, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 33, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 36
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 72, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 75, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 78, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 31, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
- Point 18: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 81, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 19: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 83, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 20: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 28, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 21: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 25, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 22: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 86, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 11
- Point 23: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 89, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 24: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 92, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 25: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 94, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 26: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 22, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 27: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 19, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 28: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 17, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 29: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 97, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 22
- Point 30: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 14, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 25
- Point 31: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 11, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 32: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 8, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 33: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 6, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 17
- Point 34: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 35: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 3, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 39
- Point 36: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 31
- The College of Wooster: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 50, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 8
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| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilmington College | 1,040 | 2.88 | 0 | 31 |
| Hiram College | 1,061 | 0.94 | 3 | 39 |
| Heidelberg University | 1,091 | 5.50 | 6 | 17 |
| Mercy College of Ohio | 1,096 | 0.00 | 8 | 53 |
| Lake Erie College | 1,108 | 0.90 | 11 | 42 |
| Marietta College | 1,109 | 3.61 | 14 | 25 |
| Miami University-Middletown | 1,190 | 0.00 | 17 | 53 |
| Kent State University at East Liverpool | 1,196 | 0.00 | 19 | 53 |
| Ohio Dominican University | 1,209 | 0.83 | 22 | 47 |
| Ohio University-Eastern Campus | 1,235 | 0.00 | 25 | 53 |
| Malone University | 1,256 | 1.59 | 28 | 33 |
| The College of Wooster (this campus) | 1,738 | 9.21 | 50 | 8 |
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 The College of Wooster fell from 16 to 9 (-44%). The decrease shows up in Fondling (5 to 0) and Rape (11 to 9).
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 The College of Wooster
Across 3 reporting years, on-campus incidents were recorded in 2 Clery Act categories here: Rape and Fondling. Rape accounts for most of them.
The remaining 9 categories were reported with no on-campus incidents, among them Aggravated Assault, Arson, Burglary 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 onlyThe College of Wooster: Criminal Offenses by year
Declining 50% (18 → 9 incidents)
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| Period | On-campus incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 18 |
| 2023 | 16 |
| 2024 | 9 |
| Crime Type | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rape | 9 | 11 | 10 |
| Fondling | 0 | 5 | 8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Burglary | 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
9 category-year records| Category | Year | Arrests | Discipline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drugs | 2024 | 1 | 46 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 24 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 23 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 26 |
| Weapons | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2022 | 0 | 28 |
| Liquor | 2022 | 0 | 30 |
| Weapons | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
The College of Wooster 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
Kent State University at Ashtabula
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
FM
College of Micronesia-FSM
1.16 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where The College of Wooster sits on price and outcomes
At $23,458, The College of Wooster's reported average net price is cheaper than 71% among 228 Ohio colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $17,989.
- $23,458
- average net price
- $17,989
- Ohio median
- 1.7×
- six-year earnings to median debt
- $19,711
- reported income-bracket spread
Aid here is steeply income-scaled. Families reporting under $30,000 of income record a net price of $12,512, while those above $110,000 record $32,223 - roughly 2.6 times as much. A published average of $23,458 therefore describes very few families well; the bracket nearest your own income is the more useful figure.
Six-year median earnings of $43,895 run about 1.9 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
- $61,640
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $61,640
- Avg Net Price
- $23,458
- Median Debt
- $26,500
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 21%
Admissions
- Acceptance Rate
- 60%
- SAT Average
- 1353
- SAT Math Range
- 590-720
- ACT Average
- 29
- ACT Range
- 27-33
Outcomes
- 4-Year Graduation Rate
- 74%
- Retention Rate
- 82%
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $43,895
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $59,629
- Loan Repayment (3yr)
- 78%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 1,321 similar institutions by enrollment size.
Kent State University at Ashtabula
Ashtabula, OH · 1,739 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
College of Micronesia-FSM
Pohnpei, FM · 1,729 enrolled
Safety Score 1.16
Cecil College
North East, MD · 1,749 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Montcalm Community College
Sidney, MI · 1,751 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Muskingum University
New Concord, OH · 1,751 enrolled
Safety Score 8.57
Closest by National Rank
The College of Wooster (national rank #1906) sits near Springfield College (#1907) and Bethel University (#1905) 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 The College of Wooster, both outside OH so the neighborhoods are not state containment (Similar Institutions and national-rank neighbors above stay enrollment- or rank-based).
Similar enrollment (nationwide)
College of Micronesia-FSM
Pohnpei, FM · 1,729 enrolled
Safety score 1.16
Columbia College
Columbia, SC · 1,725 enrolled
Safety score 2.32
The University of the South
Sewanee, TN · 1,724 enrolled
Safety score 5.22
University of Dubuque
Dubuque, IA · 1,757 enrolled
Safety score 14.23
Bryant & Stratton College-Virginia Beach
Virginia Beach, VA · 1,717 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Bates College
Lewiston, ME · 1,760 enrolled
Safety score 6.25
University of Saint Francis-Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne, IN · 1,763 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
SAE Institute of Technology-Nashville
Nashville, TN · 1,712 enrolled
Safety score 0.58
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
Bethel University
Mckenzie, TN · 2,936 enrolled
Safety score 9.20
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Kingsville, TX · 6,864 enrolled
Safety score 9.18
Springfield College
Springfield, MA · 2,599 enrolled
Safety score 9.23
Colorado College
Colorado Springs, CO · 2,056 enrolled
Safety score 9.24
Williams College
Williamstown, MA · 2,164 enrolled
Safety score 9.24
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK · 6,893 enrolled
Safety score 9.14
Mount St. Mary's University
Emmitsburg, MD · 2,408 enrolled
Safety score 9.14
Rhodes College
Memphis, TN · 1,861 enrolled
Safety score 9.13
Frequently Asked Questions
Is The College of Wooster safe?
The College of Wooster has a safety score of 9.21 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students) and ranks #1,906 nationally out of 2,072 ranked institutions - nearest similar-enrollment comparison: Kent State University at Ashtabula (0.00/1k). Same-state same-level set: Kent State University at Ashtabula (0.00/1k); Muskingum University (8.57/1k); Ohio University-Southern Campus (0.00/1k); Zane State College (0.00/1k); Mount Vernon Nazarene University (2.99/1k); Kent State University at Salem (0.00/1k); Ohio Wesleyan University (9.84/1k); Ohio University-Zanesville Campus (0.00/1k).
What crimes are reported at The College of Wooster?
For calendar year 2024, The College of Wooster reported Rape (9) in the Criminal Offenses section. Every other category in that section was reported at zero; other Clery tables are separate.
How does The College of Wooster compare to similar schools?
The College of Wooster reports 373% more 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 than Kent State University at Ashtabula. Scored similar-enrollment peers on this page: Kent State University at Ashtabula (0.00/1k); College of Micronesia-FSM (1.16/1k); Cecil College (0.00/1k); Montcalm Community College (0.00/1k); Muskingum University (8.57/1k). Same-state same-level set: Kent State University at Ashtabula (0.00/1k); Muskingum University (8.57/1k); Ohio University-Southern Campus (0.00/1k); Zane State College (0.00/1k); Mount Vernon Nazarene University (2.99/1k); Kent State University at Salem (0.00/1k); Ohio Wesleyan University (9.84/1k); Ohio University-Zanesville Campus (0.00/1k).
Does The College of Wooster have fire safety data?
Yes. The College of Wooster 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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