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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 CollegePhoenix · 10,660 students
Enrollment
10,660
Incidents /1k
0.94
23
Dine CollegeTsaile · 1,434 students
Enrollment
1,434
Incidents /1k
4.18
#CampusEnrollmentIncidents /1k
1Arizona Western CollegeYuma · 8,964 students8,9640.114% of the leader · rank #1
2Paradise Valley Community CollegePhoenix · 6,148 students6,1480.164% of the leader · rank #2
3Estrella Mountain Community CollegeAvondale · 10,109 students10,1090.204% of the leader · rank #3
4Chandler-Gilbert Community CollegeChandler · 15,085 students15,0850.204% of the leader · rank #4
5Rio Salado CollegeTempe · 18,841 students18,8410.214% of the leader · rank #5
6Pima Community CollegeTucson · 16,283 students16,2830.314% of the leader · rank #6
7Eastern Arizona CollegeThatcher · 5,213 students5,2130.385% of the leader · rank #7
8Mesa Community CollegeMesa · 17,077 students17,0770.476% of the leader · rank #8
9Glendale Community CollegeGlendale · 13,914 students13,9140.577% of the leader · rank #9
10Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-PrescottPrescott · 3,264 students3,2640.618% of the leader · rank #10
11Arizona Christian UniversityGlendale · 1,421 students1,4210.709% of the leader · rank #11
12Refrigeration School IncPhoenix · 1,417 students1,4170.719% of the leader · rank #12
13Central Arizona CollegeCoolidge · 5,053 students5,0530.7910% of the leader · rank #13
14Phoenix CollegePhoenix · 10,660 students10,6600.9412% of the leader · rank #14
15GateWay Community CollegePhoenix · 5,553 students5,5531.0813% of the leader · rank #15
16South Mountain Community CollegePhoenix · 4,516 students4,5161.1114% of the leader · rank #16
17Prescott CollegePrescott · 867 students8671.1514% of the leader · rank #17
18Carrington College-Phoenix NorthPhoenix · 1,080 students1,0801.8523% of the leader · rank #18
19UEI College-PhoenixPhoenix · 1,234 students1,2342.4330% of the leader · rank #19
20Arizona College-GlendaleGlendale · 403 students4032.4831% of the leader · rank #20
21University of ArizonaTucson · 56,365 students56,3653.5143% of the leader · rank #21
22Grand Canyon UniversityPhoenix · 113,257 students113,2573.7346% of the leader · rank #22
23Dine CollegeTsaile · 1,434 students1,4344.1852% of the leader · rank #23
24Arizona State University Campus ImmersionTempe · 79,818 students79,8185.2164% of the leader · rank #24
25Ottawa University-SurpriseSurprise · 912 students9126.5881% of the leader · rank #25
26Paul Mitchell the School-PhoenixPhoenix · 137 students1377.3090% of the leader · rank #26
27Northern Arizona UniversityFlagstaff · 28,467 students28,4678.11100% 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.

#CampusEnrollmentIncidents /1k
Allen School-PhoenixPhoenix · 8 students80.00
Arizona College of Nursing-PhoenixPhoenix · 1,229 students1,2290.00
Arizona College of Nursing-TempeTempe · 1,202 students1,2020.00
Arizona College of Nursing-TucsonTucson · 562 students5620.00
Arizona College-MesaMesa · 140 students1400.00
Arizona Culinary InstituteScottsdale · 149 students1490.00
Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental MedicineTucson · 19 students190.00
Arizona School of Integrative StudiesMesa · 155 students1550.00
Aspen UniversityPhoenix · 3,511 students3,5110.00
Avalon Institute-MesaMesa · 298 students2980.00
Avalon Institute-PhoenixPhoenix · 219 students2190.00
Aveda Institute Tucson-AvondaleAvondale · 158 students1580.00
Aveda Institute-PhoenixTempe · 218 students2180.00
Aveda Institute-TucsonTucson · 240 students2400.00
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-PhoenixPhoenix · 105 students1050.00

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 CollegePhoenix · 10,660 students
Enrollment
10,660
Incidents /1k
0.94
14
Yavapai CollegePrescott · 7,428 students
Enrollment
7,428
Incidents /1k
0.00
#InstitutionEnrollmentIncidents /1k
1Grand Canyon UniversityPhoenix · 113,257 students113,257100% of the leader · rank #13.73
2University of Phoenix-ArizonaPhoenix · 111,248 students111,24898% of the leader · rank #20.00
3Arizona State University Campus ImmersionTempe · 79,818 students79,81870% of the leader · rank #35.21
4University of ArizonaTucson · 56,365 students56,36550% of the leader · rank #43.51
5Northern Arizona UniversityFlagstaff · 28,467 students28,46725% of the leader · rank #58.11
6Rio Salado CollegeTempe · 18,841 students18,84117% of the leader · rank #60.21
7Mesa Community CollegeMesa · 17,077 students17,07715% of the leader · rank #70.47
8Pima Community CollegeTucson · 16,283 students16,28314% of the leader · rank #80.31
9Chandler-Gilbert Community CollegeChandler · 15,085 students15,08513% of the leader · rank #90.20
10Glendale Community CollegeGlendale · 13,914 students13,91412% of the leader · rank #100.57
11Phoenix CollegePhoenix · 10,660 students10,6609% of the leader · rank #110.94
12Estrella Mountain Community CollegeAvondale · 10,109 students10,1099% of the leader · rank #120.20
13Arizona Western CollegeYuma · 8,964 students8,9648% of the leader · rank #130.11
14Yavapai CollegePrescott · 7,428 students7,4287% of the leader · rank #140.00
15Scottsdale Community CollegeScottsdale · 7,065 students7,0656% of the leader · rank #150.00

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.