CA
Universal Technical Institute-Southern California
2.35 incidents / 1,000 students
Long Beach, CA · Clery Act 2024 · Private For-Profit
Universal Technical Institute-Southern California
Across 2022–2024, Universal Technical Institute-Southern California reported 8 incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section, and the yearly count rose over that span (largest filed category: Motor Vehicle Theft). Nearby same-state same-level comparison: American Career College-Anaheim.
- 2.35
- Incidents / 1k students
- #1,133
- Rank of 2,072
- #241
- CA rank
- 1,701
- Enrolled students
2.35 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Universal Technical Institute-Southern California reports 2.35 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 70% below Bryan College-Dayton. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Bryan College-Dayton (1.76/1k); Pomona College (34.71/1k); Montana Technological University (1.18/1k); Navajo Technical University (1.17/1k); Chattahoochee Valley Community College (0.00/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes American Career College-Anaheim (2.43/1k); College of the Siskiyous (1.90/1k); Universal Technical Institute of California Inc (1.93/1k); MTI College (0.00/1k); Copper Mountain Community College (0.00/1k); Institute of Technology (1.45/1k); Lassen Community College (0.49/1k); UEI College-Gardena (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Motor Vehicle Theft.
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- incidents / 1,000 students
- 2.35
- of 2,072 ranked nationally
- #1,133
- report fewer incidents than this campus
- 55%
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 4
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 487597 · Universal Technical Institute-Southern California 2.35/1k score rate · #1,133/2,072
RATE-MID · RANK-LOWER · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-NONE
- RATE-MID 2.35/1k
- RANK-LOWER #1,133/2,072
- ST-MID #241 in state
- ABOVE-PEER Bryan College-Dayton · +0.59
- ZERO-NONE Scored
- TREND-UP ↑ 300%
- CAT-LEAD Motor Vehicle Th…
- ENR-SMALL 1,701
- FIRE-NONE No res filing
Nearest enrollment peer: Bryan College-Dayton (-0.59/1k)
Universal Technical Institute-Southern California sheet RATE-MID · RANK-LOWER · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-NONE · peer Bryan College-Dayton. 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 · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-NONE. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is Bryan College-Dayton (-0.59/1k). National rank #1,133 of 2,072 scored campuses. Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Universal Technical Institute-Southern California reports 2.35 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 70% below Bryan College-Dayton. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Bryan College-Dayton (1.76/1k); Pomona College (34.71/1k); Montana Technological University (1.18/1k); Navajo Technical University (1.17/1k); Chattahoochee Valley Community College (0.00/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes American Career College-Anaheim (2.43/1k); College of the Siskiyous (1.90/1k); Universal Technical Institute of California Inc (1.93/1k); MTI College (0.00/1k); Copper Mountain Community College (0.00/1k); Institute of Technology (1.45/1k); Lassen Community College (0.49/1k); UEI College-Gardena (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Motor Vehicle Theft.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Universal Technical Institute-Southern
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Universal on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- Chattahoochee Valley Community College · lowest peer 0
Chattahoochee Valley Community College — lowest peer
0 per 1,000 students
- Navajo Technical University · near 1.17
Navajo Technical University — near
1.17 per 1,000 students
- Montana Technological University · near 1.18
Montana Technological University — near
1.18 per 1,000 students
- Bryan College-Dayton · near 1.76
Bryan College-Dayton — near
1.76 per 1,000 students
- Universal Technical Institute-Southern California · this campus 2.35
Universal Technical Institute-Southern California — this campus
2.35 per 1,000 students
- Pomona College · highest peer
Pomona College — highest peer
34.71 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Universal Technical Institute-Southern California's 2.35/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Universal Technical Institute-Southern California increased from 3 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 CA 2-year peers in this comparison, Universal Technical Institute-Southern California is larger than 81% 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 78, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 6
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 75, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 17
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 72, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 14
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 83, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 86, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 69, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 89, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 31
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 67, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 92, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 25
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 64, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 94, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 28
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 97, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 61, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 58, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 56, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 22
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 50, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 18: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 47, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 19: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 44, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 20: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 42, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 21: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 39, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 22: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 36, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 23: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 33, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 24: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 31, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 25: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 28, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 26: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 25, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 27: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 28: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 22, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 29: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 19, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 30: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 17, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 31: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 14, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 32: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 11, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 33: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 8, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 11
- Point 34: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 6, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 35: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 3, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 36: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Universal Technical Instit…: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 81, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 8
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| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Joaquin Valley College-Fresno | 447 | 0.00 | 0 | 33 |
| Glendale Career College-North-West College-Bakersfield | 493 | 0.00 | 3 | 33 |
| North-West College-Anaheim | 513 | 0.00 | 6 | 33 |
| National Polytechnic College | 516 | 1.94 | 8 | 11 |
| San Joaquin Valley College-Hesperia | 528 | 0.00 | 11 | 33 |
| Pima Medical Institute-Chula Vista | 537 | 0.00 | 14 | 33 |
| Institute of Culinary Education | 553 | 0.00 | 17 | 33 |
| Contra Costa Medical Career College | 556 | 0.00 | 19 | 33 |
| Pima Medical Institute-San Marcos | 573 | 0.00 | 22 | 33 |
| San Joaquin Valley College-Modesto | 598 | 0.00 | 25 | 33 |
| Career Care Institute | 620 | 0.00 | 28 | 33 |
| Universal Technical Institute-Southern California (this campus) | 1,701 | 2.35 | 81 | 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 Universal Technical Institute-Southern California rose from 3 to 4 (+33%). The increase shows up in Motor Vehicle Theft (1 to 4). Falling over the same period: Burglary (2 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 Universal Technical Institute-Southern California
Across 3 reporting years, on-campus incidents were recorded in 2 Clery Act categories here: Motor Vehicle Theft and Burglary. Motor Vehicle Theft accounts for most of them.
The remaining 9 categories were reported with no on-campus incidents, among them Aggravated Assault, Arson, 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 onlyUniversal Technical Institute-Southern California: Criminal Offenses by year
Rising 300% (1 → 4 incidents)
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| Period | On-campus incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2023 | 3 |
| 2024 | 4 |
| Crime Type | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Burglary | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 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
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 |
Universal Technical Institute-Southern California 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).
TN
Bryan College-Dayton
1.76 incidents / 1,000 students
CA
Pomona College
34.71 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where Universal Technical Institute-Southern California sits on price and outcomes
At $27,506, Universal Technical Institute-Southern California's reported average net price is cheaper than 70% among 492 California colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $20,161.
- $27,506
- average net price
- $20,161
- California median
- 3.6×
- six-year earnings to median debt
- $6,160
- reported income-bracket spread
Price barely responds to income at this institution. Families under $30,000 report $26,301 and those above $110,000 report $32,461, a difference of just $6,160. 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.
Six-year median earnings of $47,320 run about 1.7 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. 58% complete within six years, so roughly 42% leave without the credential - and those students still carry whatever they paid.
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
Outcomes
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $47,320
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $52,873
- Loan Repayment (3yr)
- 57%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 1,319 similar institutions by enrollment size.
Bryan College-Dayton
Dayton, TN · 1,701 enrolled
Safety Score 1.76
Pomona College
Claremont, CA · 1,700 enrolled
Safety Score 34.71
Montana Technological University
Butte, MT · 1,702 enrolled
Safety Score 1.18
Navajo Technical University
Crownpoint, NM · 1,704 enrolled
Safety Score 1.17
Chattahoochee Valley Community College
Phenix City, AL · 1,705 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Closest by National Rank
Universal Technical Institute-Southern California (national rank #1133) sits near Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science (#1132) and Wright State University-Main Campus (#1134) on the scored national list, nearest by rank, not by size or state.
Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science
Los Angeles, CA
National Rank #1132
Wright State University-Main Campus
Dayton, OH
National Rank #1134
Loyola University Chicago
Chicago, IL
National Rank #1135
Oakland University
Rochester Hills, MI
National Rank #1131
Los Medanos College
Pittsburg, CA
National Rank #1136
Nationwide campuses with similar scale or Clery rate
Two Clery-derived peer sets for Universal Technical Institute-Southern California, 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)
Black River Technical College
Pocahontas, AR · 1,705 enrolled
Safety score 0.59
Chattahoochee Valley Community College
Phenix City, AL · 1,705 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Berkshire Community College
Pittsfield, MA · 1,694 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Greenfield Community College
Greenfield, MA · 1,689 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Ross College-Sylvania
Sylvania, OH · 1,714 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Cloud County Community College
Concordia, KS · 1,715 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
University of New Mexico-Gallup Campus
Gallup, NM · 1,687 enrolled
Safety score 2.37
Northeastern Junior College
Sterling, CO · 1,684 enrolled
Safety score 1.78
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
Minnesota State Community and Technical College
Fergus Falls, MN · 5,645 enrolled
Safety score 2.30
Monroe Community College
Rochester, NY · 8,641 enrolled
Safety score 2.43
Milwaukee Area Technical College
Milwaukee, WI · 13,792 enrolled
Safety score 2.47
City Colleges of Chicago-Olive-Harvey College
Chicago, IL · 3,137 enrolled
Safety score 2.23
Harcum College
Bryn Mawr, PA · 908 enrolled
Safety score 2.20
Mohawk Valley Community College
Utica, NY · 5,940 enrolled
Safety score 2.19
Forsyth Technical Community College
Winston-Salem, NC · 9,099 enrolled
Safety score 2.53
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Universal Technical Institute-Southern California safe?
Universal Technical Institute-Southern California has a safety score of 2.35 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students) and ranks #1,133 nationally out of 2,072 ranked institutions - nearest similar-enrollment comparison: Bryan College-Dayton (1.76/1k). Same-state same-level set: American Career College-Anaheim (2.43/1k); College of the Siskiyous (1.90/1k); Universal Technical Institute of California Inc (1.93/1k); MTI College (0.00/1k); Copper Mountain Community College (0.00/1k); Institute of Technology (1.45/1k); Lassen Community College (0.49/1k); UEI College-Gardena (0.00/1k).
What crimes are reported at Universal Technical Institute-Southern California?
For calendar year 2024, Universal Technical Institute-Southern California reported Motor Vehicle Theft (4) in the Criminal Offenses section. Every other category in that section was reported at zero; other Clery tables are separate.
How does Universal Technical Institute-Southern California compare to similar schools?
Universal Technical Institute-Southern California reports 70% fewer 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 than Bryan College-Dayton. Scored similar-enrollment peers on this page: Bryan College-Dayton (1.76/1k); Pomona College (34.71/1k); Montana Technological University (1.18/1k); Navajo Technical University (1.17/1k); Chattahoochee Valley Community College (0.00/1k). Same-state same-level set: American Career College-Anaheim (2.43/1k); College of the Siskiyous (1.90/1k); Universal Technical Institute of California Inc (1.93/1k); MTI College (0.00/1k); Copper Mountain Community College (0.00/1k); Institute of Technology (1.45/1k); Lassen Community College (0.49/1k); UEI College-Gardena (0.00/1k).
Does Universal Technical Institute-Southern California have fire safety data?
Universal Technical Institute-Southern California has no on-campus residential fire filing in this Clery release.
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