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Safest Colleges in Arizona

Federal Clery Act filings for all 95 tracked Arizona campuses, ranked by 2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 students. Among nonzero reporters, Arizona Western College currently has the lowest rate.

95
Institutions tracked
0.58
Avg campus rate / 1k (95 of 95 scored)
2.25
Statewide rate / 1k
#6
Rank by avg campus rate
601,052
Students enrolled

Among nonzero Clery reporters, Arizona Western College has the lowest rate in Arizona

According to U.S. Department of Education Clery Act filings, across 95 tracked campuses in Arizona, 68 reported zero 2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents used in the rate; among campuses with any in those categories, Arizona Western College has the lowest rate at 0.11 per 1,000 students. This comparison excludes other Clery tables and unreported harm, so review the details before drawing a safety conclusion.

Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey

campuses tracked
95
average campus, per 1,000 (95 of 95 scored)
0.58
lowest nonzero rate - Arizona Western College
0.11
campuses at zero in score categories
68

Data updated August 2026

Clery Act plate

Sheet AZ · Arizona 0.58/1k campus avg · #6/59

RATE-QUIET · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · ZERO-HEAVY · WT-LARGE-HOT · BOOK-FULL · CONC-HEAVY

  • RATE-QUIET 0.58/1k
  • RANK-TOP #6/59
  • PHOTO-FINISH Guam · ±0.00
  • ZERO-HEAVY 72% zero
  • WT-LARGE-HOT Δ −1.67
  • BOOK-FULL 95/95
  • CONC-HEAVY top5 65%

Nearest campus-rate peer: Guam (-0.00/1k)

Arizona sheet RATE-QUIET · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · ZERO-HEAVY · WT-LARGE-HOT · BOOK-FULL · CONC-HEAVY · peer Guam. Codes from this state’s OPE Campus Safety filing: unweighted campus rate, corpus rank (low = safer), photo-finish peer state, zero-report share, campus-vs-weighted gap, scored book, top-five enrollment concentration. Not a moving recommendation.

Clery plate RATE-QUIET · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · ZERO-HEAVY · WT-LARGE-HOT · BOOK-FULL · CONC-HEAVY. Nearest unweighted-rate peer is Guam (-0.00/1k). Among nonzero reporters inside the state, Arizona Western College leads at 0.11/1k. Instrument codes from this state's OPE Campus Safety sheet; compare similarly sized campuses before treating any single rate as decisive.

Most scored campuses in Arizona (68 of 95) reported zero in the 2024 score categories and stay unranked against each other. Among the nonzero reporters, Arizona Western College leads at 0.11/1k, then Paradise Valley Community College (0.16/1k); Estrella Mountain Community College (0.20/1k). A high zero share is a filing pattern, not a proof that campuses are safer.

Campus-rate neighbourhood around Arizona

Lowest/highest poles plus states nearest Arizona on unweighted average campus Clery rate. Full ladder: /rankings/.

per 1,000 students

What this shows Neighbourhood of scored states around Arizona's 0.58/1k unweighted campus average, not a full 50-state board reprint.

Source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey (Clery Act) As of 2024

Safest colleges in Arizona, ranked by reported rate

Ranked from the lowest 2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA rate upward, counting only the 27 Arizona campuses with at least one incident in those score categories. Positions are numbered within that group, because a rank counted through the zero-score campuses below would order them by nothing.

14
Phoenix College Phoenix · 10,660 students
Enrollment
10,660
Incidents /1k
0.94
17
Prescott College Prescott · 867 students
Enrollment
867
Incidents /1k
1.15
23
Dine College Tsaile · 1,434 students
Enrollment
1,434
Incidents /1k
4.18
# Campus EnrollmentIncidents /1k
1 Arizona Western College Yuma · 8,964 students 8,964 0.11 4% of the leader · rank #1
2 Paradise Valley Community College Phoenix · 6,148 students 6,148 0.16 4% of the leader · rank #2
3 Estrella Mountain Community College Avondale · 10,109 students 10,109 0.20 4% of the leader · rank #3
4 Chandler-Gilbert Community College Chandler · 15,085 students 15,085 0.20 4% of the leader · rank #4
5 Rio Salado College Tempe · 18,841 students 18,841 0.21 4% of the leader · rank #5
6 Pima Community College Tucson · 16,283 students 16,283 0.31 4% of the leader · rank #6
7 Eastern Arizona College Thatcher · 5,213 students 5,213 0.38 5% of the leader · rank #7
8 Mesa Community College Mesa · 17,077 students 17,077 0.47 6% of the leader · rank #8
9 Glendale Community College Glendale · 13,914 students 13,914 0.57 7% of the leader · rank #9
10 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott Prescott · 3,264 students 3,264 0.61 8% of the leader · rank #10
11 Arizona Christian University Glendale · 1,421 students 1,421 0.70 9% of the leader · rank #11
12 Refrigeration School Inc Phoenix · 1,417 students 1,417 0.71 9% of the leader · rank #12
13 Central Arizona College Coolidge · 5,053 students 5,053 0.79 10% of the leader · rank #13
14 Phoenix College Phoenix · 10,660 students 10,660 0.94 12% of the leader · rank #14
15 GateWay Community College Phoenix · 5,553 students 5,553 1.08 13% of the leader · rank #15
16 South Mountain Community College Phoenix · 4,516 students 4,516 1.11 14% of the leader · rank #16
17 Prescott College Prescott · 867 students 867 1.15 14% of the leader · rank #17
18 Carrington College-Phoenix North Phoenix · 1,080 students 1,080 1.85 23% of the leader · rank #18
19 UEI College-Phoenix Phoenix · 1,234 students 1,234 2.43 30% of the leader · rank #19
20 Arizona College-Glendale Glendale · 403 students 403 2.48 31% of the leader · rank #20
21 University of Arizona Tucson · 56,365 students 56,365 3.51 43% of the leader · rank #21
22 Grand Canyon University Phoenix · 113,257 students 113,257 3.73 46% of the leader · rank #22
23 Dine College Tsaile · 1,434 students 1,434 4.18 52% of the leader · rank #23
24 Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe · 79,818 students 79,818 5.21 64% of the leader · rank #24
25 Ottawa University-Surprise Surprise · 912 students 912 6.58 81% of the leader · rank #25
26 Paul Mitchell the School-Phoenix Phoenix · 137 students 137 7.30 90% of the leader · rank #26
27 Northern Arizona University Flagstaff · 28,467 students 28,467 8.11 100% of the leader · rank #27

Unranked campuses (68): zero score or no normalized rate

68 filed zero 2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents in the score categories; other Clery tables can still contain reports. Neither group supports a safety ordering, so these campuses are listed alphabetically without positions. Showing 15 alphabetically; the remaining 53 stay out of this HTML table so large states stay crawlable.

Aspen University Phoenix · 3,511 students
Enrollment
3,511
Incidents /1k
0.00
# Campus EnrollmentIncidents /1k
Allen School-Phoenix Phoenix · 8 students 8 0.00
Arizona College of Nursing-Phoenix Phoenix · 1,229 students 1,229 0.00
Arizona College of Nursing-Tempe Tempe · 1,202 students 1,202 0.00
Arizona College of Nursing-Tucson Tucson · 562 students 562 0.00
Arizona College-Mesa Mesa · 140 students 140 0.00
Arizona Culinary Institute Scottsdale · 149 students 149 0.00
Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Tucson · 19 students 19 0.00
Arizona School of Integrative Studies Mesa · 155 students 155 0.00
Aspen University Phoenix · 3,511 students 3,511 0.00
Avalon Institute-Mesa Mesa · 298 students 298 0.00
Avalon Institute-Phoenix Phoenix · 219 students 219 0.00
Aveda Institute Tucson-Avondale Avondale · 158 students 158 0.00
Aveda Institute-Phoenix Tempe · 218 students 218 0.00
Aveda Institute-Tucson Tucson · 240 students 240 0.00
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Phoenix Phoenix · 105 students 105 0.00

Open any remaining campus from the school directory or the incident tool.

The largest universities in Arizona by enrollment

Enrollment leaders: Grand Canyon University (113,257); University of Phoenix-Arizona (111,248); Arizona State University Campus Immersion (79,818), then 92 more. The 15 biggest Arizona institutions by total enrolled students, from the same federal IPEDS collection, each shown with its 2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA rate. The five largest alone account for 65% of the 601,052 students enrolled across all 95 tracked Arizona institutions. Mid-pack by size sits near UEI College-Mesa (657 students, 0.00/1k).

11
Phoenix College Phoenix · 10,660 students
Enrollment
10,660
Incidents /1k
0.94
14
Yavapai College Prescott · 7,428 students
Enrollment
7,428
Incidents /1k
0.00
# Institution EnrollmentIncidents /1k
1 Grand Canyon University Phoenix · 113,257 students 113,257 100% of the leader · rank #1 3.73
2 University of Phoenix-Arizona Phoenix · 111,248 students 111,248 98% of the leader · rank #2 0.00
3 Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe · 79,818 students 79,818 70% of the leader · rank #3 5.21
4 University of Arizona Tucson · 56,365 students 56,365 50% of the leader · rank #4 3.51
5 Northern Arizona University Flagstaff · 28,467 students 28,467 25% of the leader · rank #5 8.11
6 Rio Salado College Tempe · 18,841 students 18,841 17% of the leader · rank #6 0.21
7 Mesa Community College Mesa · 17,077 students 17,077 15% of the leader · rank #7 0.47
8 Pima Community College Tucson · 16,283 students 16,283 14% of the leader · rank #8 0.31
9 Chandler-Gilbert Community College Chandler · 15,085 students 15,085 13% of the leader · rank #9 0.20
10 Glendale Community College Glendale · 13,914 students 13,914 12% of the leader · rank #10 0.57
11 Phoenix College Phoenix · 10,660 students 10,660 9% of the leader · rank #11 0.94
12 Estrella Mountain Community College Avondale · 10,109 students 10,109 9% of the leader · rank #12 0.20
13 Arizona Western College Yuma · 8,964 students 8,964 8% of the leader · rank #13 0.11
14 Yavapai College Prescott · 7,428 students 7,428 7% of the leader · rank #14 0.00
15 Scottsdale Community College Scottsdale · 7,065 students 7,065 6% of the leader · rank #15 0.00

Enrollment is total reported students, not full-time equivalent, and a branch campus is reported separately from its parent institution. A larger campus is not a less safe one: the incident rate beside it is already per 1,000 students.

Nationwide states with similar campus scale or Clery rate

Two nationwide peer sets for Arizona: closest on tracked campus count (95 here) and closest on unweighted average 2024 Clery rate (0.58/1k here). The rate-neighbourhood and keep-peer blocks above stay geo-adjacent; these columns are cross-state ABS comparisons with deduped link sets.

Similar campus count

Nearest other states by number of tracked postsecondary institutions (≥5 scored campuses in corpus).

Similar campus Clery rate

Nearest other states by unweighted average on-campus Clery rate. Campus-count peers above are excluded.

Read with this state

Keep-peer handoff: Guam sits nearest on unweighted campus average (-0.00/1k). Inside Arizona, open Arizona Western College's campus sheet next.

Arizona Western College profile → | All states → | Arizona net price → | Incident tool → | Methodology →

Arizona campus safety FAQ

What are the safest colleges in Arizona?

Among Arizona campuses that reported at least one 2024 Criminal Offense or VAWA incident in the Clery categories used here, Arizona Western College has the lowest rate (0.11 per 1,000 students). Next among nonzero reporters: Paradise Valley Community College (0.16/1k); Estrella Mountain Community College (0.20/1k). 68 campuses reported zero in those score categories and are listed separately without a safety ordinal, because a zero report is not the same as a proven safer campus.

How does PlainCampus rank campus safety in Arizona?

In Arizona, campuses with any 2024 Criminal Offenses or VAWA incidents in the score categories are ordered by incidents per 1,000 students - Arizona Western College currently leads that nonzero list at 0.11/1k. Zero-report and unscored campuses stay unranked and alphabetical. See /methodology for the full rate definition.

How many colleges in Arizona are compared?

This page covers 95 tracked higher-education institutions in Arizona, serving about 601,052 enrolled students combined across 23 cities. 27 carry a ranked nonzero rate; 68 are listed without a safety ordinal. By enrollment the largest are Grand Canyon University (113,257); University of Phoenix-Arizona (111,248); Arizona State University Campus Immersion (79,818). Nearby state averages for context: Guam (0.58/1k); New Jersey (0.69/1k); Idaho (0.77/1k); Florida (0.78/1k); Nevada (0.82/1k); Puerto Rico (0.33/1k).

Every figure on PlainCampus is rendered directly from federal Clery Act source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal Clery Act source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.

PlainCampus is for informational purposes only and does not constitute safety, security, legal, or enrollment advice; the data describes reported on-campus activity, it is not a complete picture of safety at any campus and cannot predict any individual student's experience. See our appropriate use guidance.