CA
Whittier College
5.03 incidents / 1,000 students
Whittier, CA · Clery Act 2024 · Private Nonprofit
Whittier College
Across 2022–2024, Whittier College reported 23 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: Pacific College of Health and Science.
- 5.03
- Incidents / 1k students
- #1,618
- Rank of 2,072
- #277
- CA rank
- 795
- Enrolled students
5.03 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Whittier College reports 5.03 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 895% above Strayer University-New Jersey. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Strayer University-New Jersey (0.00/1k); San Joaquin Valley College-Bakersfield (0.00/1k); Bloomfield College of Montclair State University (0.00/1k); Warren Wilson College (2.53/1k); University of South Carolina-Salkehatchie (0.00/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Pacific College of Health and Science (0.00/1k); Menlo College (1.23/1k); Laguna College of Art and Design (0.00/1k); Musicians Institute (0.00/1k); Casa Loma College-Los Angeles (1.32/1k); Pacifica Graduate Institute (0.00/1k); California State University Maritime Academy (14.34/1k); Chamberlain University-California (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
- 5.03
- of 2,072 ranked nationally
- #1,618
- report fewer incidents than this campus
- 78%
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 1
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 125763 · Whittier College 5.03/1k score rate · #1,618/2,072
RATE-HIGH · RANK-BOTTOM · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO
- RATE-HIGH 5.03/1k
- RANK-BOTTOM #1,618/2,072
- ST-MID #277 in state
- ABOVE-PEER Warren Wilson College · +2.50
- ZERO-NONE Scored
- TREND-DOWN ↓ 86%
- CAT-LEAD Burglary
- ENR-SMALL 795
- FIRE-ZERO 0 fires filed
Nearest enrollment peer: Warren Wilson College (-2.50/1k)
Whittier College sheet RATE-HIGH · RANK-BOTTOM · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO · peer Warren Wilson 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-HIGH · RANK-BOTTOM · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is Warren Wilson College (-2.50/1k). National rank #1,618 of 2,072 scored campuses. Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Whittier College reports 5.03 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 895% above Strayer University-New Jersey. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Strayer University-New Jersey (0.00/1k); San Joaquin Valley College-Bakersfield (0.00/1k); Bloomfield College of Montclair State University (0.00/1k); Warren Wilson College (2.53/1k); University of South Carolina-Salkehatchie (0.00/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Pacific College of Health and Science (0.00/1k); Menlo College (1.23/1k); Laguna College of Art and Design (0.00/1k); Musicians Institute (0.00/1k); Casa Loma College-Los Angeles (1.32/1k); Pacifica Graduate Institute (0.00/1k); California State University Maritime Academy (14.34/1k); Chamberlain University-California (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Burglary.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Whittier College
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Whittier on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- Strayer University-New Jersey · lowest peer 0
Strayer University-New Jersey — lowest peer
0 per 1,000 students
- San Joaquin Valley College-Bakersfield · near 0
San Joaquin Valley College-Bakersfield — near
0 per 1,000 students
- Warren Wilson College · near
Warren Wilson College — near
2.53 per 1,000 students
- Whittier College · this campus · highest
Whittier College — this campus · highest
5.03 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Whittier College's 5.03/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Whittier College decreased from 15 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 37 CA 4-year peers in this comparison, Whittier College is larger than 58% and safer-reporting than 17% - 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) 47
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 61, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 64, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 50, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 39
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 67, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 69, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 47, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 72, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 75, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 22
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 44, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 78, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 81, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 83, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 42, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 36
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 39, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 36, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 8
- Point 18: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 86, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 6
- Point 19: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 33, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 20: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 31, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
- Point 21: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 28, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 31
- Point 22: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 25, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 23: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 89, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 24: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 22, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 25: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 19, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 26: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 92, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 25
- Point 27: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 17, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 28: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 94, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 28
- Point 29: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 14, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 30: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 11, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 14
- Point 31: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 97, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 32: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 8, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 11
- Point 33: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 6, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 34: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 35: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 36: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Whittier College: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 58, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 17
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| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey | 526 | 0.00 | 0 | 47 |
| Gnomon | 526 | 0.00 | 0 | 47 |
| InterCoast Colleges-West Covina | 535 | 0.00 | 6 | 47 |
| West Coast University-Center for Graduate Studies | 548 | 5.47 | 8 | 11 |
| Thomas Aquinas College | 566 | 5.30 | 11 | 14 |
| Platt College-Los Angeles | 570 | 0.00 | 14 | 47 |
| California University of Science and Medicine | 590 | 0.00 | 17 | 47 |
| Angeles College | 603 | 0.00 | 19 | 47 |
| California Health Sciences University | 607 | 0.00 | 22 | 47 |
| Life Chiropractic College West | 618 | 0.00 | 25 | 47 |
| Life Pacific University | 621 | 1.61 | 28 | 31 |
| Whittier College (this campus) | 795 | 5.03 | 58 | 17 |
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 Whittier College fell from 15 to 1 (-93%). The decrease shows up in Burglary (4 to 1), Fondling (3 to 0) and Motor Vehicle Theft (3 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 Whittier College
Across 3 reporting years, on-campus incidents were recorded in 6 Clery Act categories here: Burglary, Fondling, Motor Vehicle Theft, Arson, Rape and Aggravated Assault. Burglary accounts for most of them.
The remaining 5 categories were reported with no on-campus incidents, among them Incest, Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter, Negligent Manslaughter and Robbery. 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 onlyWhittier College: Criminal Offenses by year
Declining 86% (7 → 1 incidents)
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| Period | On-campus incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 7 |
| 2023 | 15 |
| 2024 | 1 |
| Crime Type | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burglary | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| Fondling | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Incest | 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 | 0 | 9 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 1 | 3 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 18 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 30 |
| Weapons | 2023 | 0 | 1 |
| Drugs | 2022 | 0 | 3 |
| Liquor | 2022 | 0 | 6 |
| Weapons | 2022 | 0 | 1 |
Whittier 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
Strayer University-New Jersey
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
CA
San Joaquin Valley College-Bakersfield
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where Whittier College sits on price and outcomes
At $25,757, Whittier College's reported average net price is cheaper than 65% among 492 California colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $20,161.
- $25,757
- average net price
- $20,161
- California median
- 1.8×
- six-year earnings to median debt
- $8,881
- reported income-bracket spread
Net price moves with income here, but not sharply: $21,718 for families reporting under $30,000 against $30,599 above $110,000, a difference of $8,881. Aid narrows the gap without closing it, so the $25,757 average sits reasonably close to what most brackets report.
Six-year median earnings of $46,025 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
- $51,350
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $51,350
- Avg Net Price
- $25,757
- Median Debt
- $24,937
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 34%
Admissions
- Acceptance Rate
- 81%
- ACT Average
- 26
Outcomes
- 4-Year Graduation Rate
- 62%
- Retention Rate
- 66%
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $46,025
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $59,492
- Loan Repayment (3yr)
- 73%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 1,179 similar institutions by enrollment size.
Strayer University-New Jersey
Piscataway, NJ · 796 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
San Joaquin Valley College-Bakersfield
Bakersfield, CA · 798 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Bloomfield College of Montclair State University
Bloomfield, NJ · 799 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Warren Wilson College
Swannanoa, NC · 791 enrolled
Safety Score 2.53
University of South Carolina-Salkehatchie
Allendale, SC · 799 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Closest by National Rank
Whittier College (national rank #1618) sits near Loras College (#1619) and University of Rochester (#1617) 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 Whittier College, 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)
Strayer University-New Jersey
Piscataway, NJ · 796 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Bloomfield College of Montclair State University
Bloomfield, NJ · 799 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Warren Wilson College
Swannanoa, NC · 791 enrolled
Safety score 2.53
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Scranton
Dunmore, PA · 800 enrolled
Safety score 2.50
American InterContinental University-Atlanta
Atlanta, GA · 801 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
University of Holy Cross
New Orleans, LA · 802 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
College of Saint Mary
Omaha, NE · 786 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Elmira College
Elmira, NY · 786 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY · 11,946 enrolled
Safety score 5.02
Loras College
Dubuque, IA · 1,189 enrolled
Safety score 5.05
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE · 3,988 enrolled
Safety score 5.01
Savannah State University
Savannah, GA · 3,193 enrolled
Safety score 5.01
The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN · 11,775 enrolled
Safety score 5.01
Luther College
Decorah, IA · 1,384 enrolled
Safety score 5.06
University of Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN · 5,000 enrolled
Safety score 5.00
Dominican University
River Forest, IL · 3,803 enrolled
Safety score 5.00
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Whittier College safe?
Whittier College has a safety score of 5.03 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students) and ranks #1,618 nationally out of 2,072 ranked institutions - nearest similar-enrollment comparison: Strayer University-New Jersey (0.00/1k). Same-state same-level set: Pacific College of Health and Science (0.00/1k); Menlo College (1.23/1k); Laguna College of Art and Design (0.00/1k); Musicians Institute (0.00/1k); Casa Loma College-Los Angeles (1.32/1k); Pacifica Graduate Institute (0.00/1k); California State University Maritime Academy (14.34/1k); Chamberlain University-California (0.00/1k).
What crimes are reported at Whittier College?
For calendar year 2024, Whittier 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 Whittier College compare to similar schools?
Whittier College reports 895% more 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 than Strayer University-New Jersey. Scored similar-enrollment peers on this page: Strayer University-New Jersey (0.00/1k); San Joaquin Valley College-Bakersfield (0.00/1k); Bloomfield College of Montclair State University (0.00/1k); Warren Wilson College (2.53/1k); University of South Carolina-Salkehatchie (0.00/1k). Same-state same-level set: Pacific College of Health and Science (0.00/1k); Menlo College (1.23/1k); Laguna College of Art and Design (0.00/1k); Musicians Institute (0.00/1k); Casa Loma College-Los Angeles (1.32/1k); Pacifica Graduate Institute (0.00/1k); California State University Maritime Academy (14.34/1k); Chamberlain University-California (0.00/1k).
Does Whittier College have fire safety data?
Yes. Whittier 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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