VA
William & Mary
3.16 incidents / 1,000 students
Williamsburg, VA · Clery Act 2024 · Public
William & Mary
Across 2022–2024, William & Mary reported 49 incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section, and the yearly count rose over that span (largest filed category: Fondling). Nearby same-state same-level comparison: Regent University.
- 3.16
- Incidents / 1k students
- #1,321
- Rank of 2,072
- #49
- VA rank
- 9,818
- Enrolled students
3.16 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
William & Mary reports 3.16 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 267% above Lansing Community College. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Lansing Community College (0.51/1k); Triton College (0.00/1k); Colorado Mesa University (0.72/1k); Trine University-Regional/Non-Traditional Campuses (0.10/1k); Chapman University (2.97/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Regent University (0.19/1k); Radford University (3.58/1k); ECPI University (0.08/1k); Norfolk State University (5.95/1k); Virginia State University (9.63/1k); Longwood University (4.34/1k); Shenandoah University (0.67/1k); Christopher Newport University (9.65/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Fondling.
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- incidents / 1,000 students
- 3.16
- of 2,072 ranked nationally
- #1,321
- report fewer incidents than this campus
- 64%
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 18
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 231624 · William & Mary 3.16/1k score rate · #1,321/2,072
RATE-MID · RANK-LOWER · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-MID · FIRE-REPORT
- RATE-MID 3.16/1k
- RANK-LOWER #1,321/2,072
- ST-MID #49 in state
- ABOVE-PEER Chapman University · +0.19
- ZERO-NONE Scored
- TREND-UP ↑ 29%
- CAT-LEAD Fondling
- ENR-MID 9,818
- FIRE-REPORT 1 fire
Nearest enrollment peer: Chapman University (-0.19/1k)
William & Mary sheet RATE-MID · RANK-LOWER · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-MID · FIRE-REPORT · peer Chapman 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-MID · RANK-LOWER · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-MID · FIRE-REPORT. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is Chapman University (-0.19/1k). National rank #1,321 of 2,072 scored campuses. Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
William & Mary reports 3.16 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 267% above Lansing Community College. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Lansing Community College (0.51/1k); Triton College (0.00/1k); Colorado Mesa University (0.72/1k); Trine University-Regional/Non-Traditional Campuses (0.10/1k); Chapman University (2.97/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Regent University (0.19/1k); Radford University (3.58/1k); ECPI University (0.08/1k); Norfolk State University (5.95/1k); Virginia State University (9.63/1k); Longwood University (4.34/1k); Shenandoah University (0.67/1k); Christopher Newport University (9.65/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Fondling.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around William & Mary
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest William on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- Triton College · lowest peer 0
Triton College — lowest peer
0 per 1,000 students
- Lansing Community College · near 0.51
Lansing Community College — near
0.51 per 1,000 students
- Colorado Mesa University · near 0.72
Colorado Mesa University — near
0.72 per 1,000 students
- Chapman University · near
Chapman University — near
2.97 per 1,000 students
- William & Mary · this campus · highest
William & Mary — this campus · highest
3.16 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around William & Mary's 3.16/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
William & Mary increased from 17 to 18 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 VA 4-year peers in this comparison, William & Mary is larger than 94% and safer-reporting than 64% - the larger, safer-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 97, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 83
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 92, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 58
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 86
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 89, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 28
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 86, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 11
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 83, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 78, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 81
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 78, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 8
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 75, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 72, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 78
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 69, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 67, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 75
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 64, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 89
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 61, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 58, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 25
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 56, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 89
- Point 18: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 50, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 69
- Point 19: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 47, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 20: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 44, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 21: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 42, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 89
- Point 22: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 39, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 14
- Point 23: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 36, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 24: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 33, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 22
- Point 25: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 31, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 17
- Point 26: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 28, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 27: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 25, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 31
- Point 28: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 22, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 39
- Point 29: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 19, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 36
- Point 30: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 17, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 89
- Point 31: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 14, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 72
- 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) 47
- Point 34: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 6, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 6
- Point 35: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 3, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 89
- Point 36: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- William & Mary: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 94, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 64
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| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ferrum College | 763 | 3.93 | 0 | 53 |
| American National University | 770 | 0.00 | 3 | 89 |
| Randolph College | 816 | 12.25 | 6 | 6 |
| Southern Virginia University | 936 | 4.27 | 8 | 47 |
| Hampden-Sydney College | 946 | 5.29 | 11 | 33 |
| Bluefield University | 959 | 2.09 | 14 | 72 |
| Washington University of Science and Technology | 1,096 | 0.00 | 17 | 89 |
| Eastern Mennonite University | 1,154 | 5.20 | 19 | 36 |
| Eastern Virginia Medical School | 1,216 | 4.93 | 22 | 39 |
| Emory & Henry University | 1,311 | 5.34 | 25 | 31 |
| Bridgewater College | 1,448 | 12.43 | 28 | 3 |
| William & Mary (this campus) | 9,818 | 3.16 | 94 | 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 William & Mary rose from 17 to 18 (+6%). The increase shows up in Burglary (0 to 4). Falling over the same period: Fondling (12 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 William & Mary
Across 3 reporting years, on-campus incidents were recorded in 4 Clery Act categories here: Fondling, Rape, Burglary and Statutory Rape. Fondling accounts for most of them.
The remaining 7 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 onlyWilliam & Mary: Criminal Offenses by year
Rising 29% (14 → 18 incidents)
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| Period | On-campus incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 14 |
| 2023 | 17 |
| 2024 | 18 |
| Crime Type | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fondling | 9 | 12 | 6 |
| Rape | 5 | 5 | 3 |
| Burglary | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Statutory Rape | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 |
| Robbery | 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Arrests & Disciplinary Actions
45 category-year records| Category | Year | Arrests | Discipline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 16 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 1 | 98 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 1 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 1 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 28 |
William & Mary 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).
MI
Lansing Community College
0.51 incidents / 1,000 students
IL
Triton College
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where William & Mary sits on price and outcomes
At $19,096, William & Mary's reported average net price is cheaper than 50% among 107 Virginia colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $19,096.
- $19,096
- average net price
- $19,096
- Virginia median
- 3.4×
- six-year earnings to median debt
- $31,264
- reported income-bracket spread
Aid here is steeply income-scaled. Families reporting under $30,000 of income record a net price of $3,106, while those above $110,000 record $34,370 - roughly 11.1 times as much. A published average of $19,096 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 $62,959, roughly 3.3 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
- $25,914
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $51,038
- Avg Net Price
- $19,096
- Median Debt
- $18,500
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 12%
Admissions
- Acceptance Rate
- 34%
- SAT Average
- 1473
- SAT Math Range
- 690-770
- ACT Average
- 33
- ACT Range
- 32-34
Outcomes
- 4-Year Graduation Rate
- 90%
- Retention Rate
- 95%
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $62,959
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $73,490
- Loan Repayment (3yr)
- 87%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 801 similar institutions by enrollment size.
Lansing Community College
Lansing, MI · 9,821 enrolled
Safety Score 0.51
Triton College
River Grove, IL · 9,842 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Colorado Mesa University
Grand Junction, CO · 9,785 enrolled
Safety Score 0.72
Trine University-Regional/Non-Traditional Campuses
Angola, IN · 9,868 enrolled
Safety Score 0.10
Chapman University
Orange, CA · 9,760 enrolled
Safety Score 2.97
Closest by National Rank
William & Mary (national rank #1321) sits near University of Hartford (#1322) and SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University (#1320) on the scored national list, nearest by rank, not by size or state.
University of Hartford
West Hartford, CT
National Rank #1322
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
Brooklyn, NY
National Rank #1320
Montana State University Billings
Billings, MT
National Rank #1319
University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV
National Rank #1323
Gordon State College
Barnesville, GA
National Rank #1318
Nationwide campuses with similar scale or Clery rate
Two Clery-derived peer sets for William & Mary, both outside VA so the neighborhoods are not state containment (Similar Institutions and national-rank neighbors above stay enrollment- or rank-based).
Similar enrollment (nationwide)
Colorado Mesa University
Grand Junction, CO · 9,785 enrolled
Safety score 0.72
Trine University-Regional/Non-Traditional Campuses
Angola, IN · 9,868 enrolled
Safety score 0.10
Chapman University
Orange, CA · 9,760 enrolled
Safety score 2.97
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA · 9,728 enrolled
Safety score 3.91
Bridgewater State University
Bridgewater, MA · 9,727 enrolled
Safety score 3.29
Universidad Ana G. Mendez-Gurabo Campus
Gurabo, PR · 9,909 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
California State University-Stanislaus
Turlock, CA · 9,724 enrolled
Safety score 2.06
Prairie View A & M University
Prairie View, TX · 9,922 enrolled
Safety score 24.29
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
University of Hartford
West Hartford, CT · 6,015 enrolled
Safety score 3.16
University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV · 32,911 enrolled
Safety score 3.16
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
Brooklyn, NY · 2,220 enrolled
Safety score 3.15
Montana State University Billings
Billings, MT · 4,129 enrolled
Safety score 3.15
Northwestern State University of Louisiana
Natchitoches, LA · 8,523 enrolled
Safety score 3.17
Gordon State College
Barnesville, GA · 3,179 enrolled
Safety score 3.15
University of South Carolina Beaufort
Bluffton, SC · 2,208 enrolled
Safety score 3.17
SUNY College of Technology at Alfred
Alfred, NY · 3,781 enrolled
Safety score 3.17
Frequently Asked Questions
Is William & Mary safe?
William & Mary has a safety score of 3.16 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students) and ranks #1,321 nationally out of 2,072 ranked institutions - nearest similar-enrollment comparison: Lansing Community College (0.51/1k). Same-state same-level set: Regent University (0.19/1k); Radford University (3.58/1k); ECPI University (0.08/1k); Norfolk State University (5.95/1k); Virginia State University (9.63/1k); Longwood University (4.34/1k); Shenandoah University (0.67/1k); Christopher Newport University (9.65/1k).
What crimes are reported at William & Mary?
For calendar year 2024, William & Mary reported Fondling (9), Rape (5) and Burglary (4) in the Criminal Offenses section. Every other category in that section was reported at zero; other Clery tables are separate.
How does William & Mary compare to similar schools?
William & Mary reports 267% more 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 than Lansing Community College. Scored similar-enrollment peers on this page: Lansing Community College (0.51/1k); Triton College (0.00/1k); Colorado Mesa University (0.72/1k); Trine University-Regional/Non-Traditional Campuses (0.10/1k); Chapman University (2.97/1k). Same-state same-level set: Regent University (0.19/1k); Radford University (3.58/1k); ECPI University (0.08/1k); Norfolk State University (5.95/1k); Virginia State University (9.63/1k); Longwood University (4.34/1k); Shenandoah University (0.67/1k); Christopher Newport University (9.65/1k).
Does William & Mary have fire safety data?
Yes. William & Mary reports fire safety data for on-campus residential facilities, including total fires, injuries, deaths, and fire damage categories. 1 fire was reported in the most recent year.
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