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Safest Colleges in Connecticut

Federal Clery Act filings for all 50 tracked Connecticut campuses, ranked by 2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 students. Among nonzero reporters, Connecticut State Community College currently has the lowest rate.

50
Institutions tracked
1.48
Avg campus rate / 1k (50 of 50 scored)
2.25
Statewide rate / 1k
#18
Rank by avg campus rate
201,202
Students enrolled

Among nonzero Clery reporters, Connecticut State Community College has the lowest rate in Connecticut

According to U.S. Department of Education Clery Act filings, across 50 tracked campuses in Connecticut, 28 reported zero 2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents used in the rate; among campuses with any in those categories, Connecticut State Community College has the lowest rate at 0.14 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
50
average campus, per 1,000 (50 of 50 scored)
1.48
lowest nonzero rate - Connecticut State Community
0.14
campuses at zero in score categories
28

Data updated August 2026

Clery Act plate

Sheet CT · Connecticut 1.48/1k campus avg · #18/59

RATE-LOW · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · ZERO-HEAVY · WT-LARGE-HOT · BOOK-FULL · CONC-MID

  • RATE-LOW 1.48/1k
  • RANK-UPPER #18/59
  • PHOTO-FINISH Montana · ±0.09
  • ZERO-HEAVY 56% zero
  • WT-LARGE-HOT Δ −0.77
  • BOOK-FULL 50/50
  • CONC-MID top5 53%

Nearest campus-rate peer: Montana (+0.09/1k)

Connecticut sheet RATE-LOW · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · ZERO-HEAVY · WT-LARGE-HOT · BOOK-FULL · CONC-MID · peer Montana. 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-LOW · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · ZERO-HEAVY · WT-LARGE-HOT · BOOK-FULL · CONC-MID. Nearest unweighted-rate peer is Montana (+0.09/1k). Among nonzero reporters inside the state, Connecticut State Community College leads at 0.14/1k. 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 Connecticut (28 of 50) reported zero in the 2024 score categories and stay unranked against each other. Among the nonzero reporters, Connecticut State Community College leads at 0.14/1k, then Quinnipiac University (0.21/1k); Post University (0.37/1k). A high zero share is a filing pattern, not a proof that campuses are safer.

Campus-rate neighbourhood around Connecticut

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

per 1,000 students

What this shows Neighbourhood of scored states around Connecticut's 1.48/1k 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 Connecticut, ranked by reported rate

Ranked from the lowest 2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA rate upward, counting only the 22 Connecticut 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.

3
Post UniversityWaterbury · 16,178 students
Enrollment
16,178
Incidents /1k
0.37
21
Trinity CollegeHartford · 2,238 students
Enrollment
2,238
Incidents /1k
10.28
22
Yale UniversityNew Haven · 15,564 students
Enrollment
15,564
Incidents /1k
11.44
#CampusEnrollmentIncidents /1k
1Connecticut State Community CollegeHartford · 36,315 students36,3150.144% of the leader · rank #1
2Quinnipiac UniversityHamden · 9,424 students9,4240.214% of the leader · rank #2
3Post UniversityWaterbury · 16,178 students16,1780.374% of the leader · rank #3
4University of Connecticut-StamfordStamford · 2,482 students2,4820.817% of the leader · rank #4
5Southern Connecticut State UniversityNew Haven · 9,377 students9,3770.857% of the leader · rank #5
6Fairfield UniversityFairfield · 6,864 students6,8641.4613% of the leader · rank #6
7University of New HavenWest Haven · 9,229 students9,2291.7315% of the leader · rank #7
8Sacred Heart UniversityFairfield · 11,022 students11,0222.0017% of the leader · rank #8
9University of ConnecticutStorrs · 28,306 students28,3062.0118% of the leader · rank #9
10Eastern Connecticut State UniversityWillimantic · 4,355 students4,3552.0718% of the leader · rank #10
11Western Connecticut State UniversityDanbury · 4,169 students4,1692.1619% of the leader · rank #11
12University of BridgeportBridgeport · 3,838 students3,8382.6123% of the leader · rank #12
13University of Connecticut-Waterbury CampusWaterbury · 745 students7452.6823% of the leader · rank #13
14Central Connecticut State UniversityNew Britain · 9,997 students9,9972.7024% of the leader · rank #14
15University of Saint JosephWest Hartford · 1,952 students1,9523.0727% of the leader · rank #15
16University of HartfordWest Hartford · 6,015 students6,0153.1628% of the leader · rank #16
17Wesleyan UniversityMiddletown · 4,011 students4,0113.2428% of the leader · rank #17
18Albertus Magnus CollegeNew Haven · 1,239 students1,2394.0435% of the leader · rank #18
19Mitchell CollegeNew London · 442 students4426.7959% of the leader · rank #19
20Connecticut CollegeNew London · 1,990 students1,99010.0588% of the leader · rank #20
21Trinity CollegeHartford · 2,238 students2,23810.2890% of the leader · rank #21
22Yale UniversityNew Haven · 15,564 students15,56411.44100% of the leader · rank #22

Unranked campuses (28): zero score or no normalized rate

28 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 13 stay out of this HTML table so large states stay crawlable.

#CampusEnrollmentIncidents /1k
Academy Di Capelli-School of CosmetologyWallingford · 402 students4020.00
American Institute of Healthcare & TechnologyStratford · 100 students1000.00
American Institute-West HartfordWest Hartford · 402 students4020.00
Arizona College of Nursing - HartfordEast Hartford · 334 students3340.00
Belle Academy of Cosmetology LLCWaterbury · 5 students50.00
Branford Academy of Hair & CosmetologyBranford · 51 students510.00
Branford Academy of Hair & Cosmetology-BridgeportBridgeport · 32 students320.00
Charter Oak State CollegeNew Britain · 2,012 students2,0120.00
Cortiva InstituteCromwell · 209 students2090.00
Dolce The AcademyWaterbury · 44 students440.00
Goodwin UniversityEast Hartford · 2,970 students2,9700.00
Hartford International University for Religion and PeaceHartford · 109 students1090.00
Holy Apostles College and SeminaryCromwell · 719 students7190.00
Industrial Management Training InstituteWaterbury · 114 students1140.00
International Institute of CosmetologyWethersfield · 197 students1970.00

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

The largest universities in Connecticut by enrollment

Enrollment leaders: Connecticut State Community College (36,315); University of Connecticut (28,306); Post University (16,178), then 47 more. The 15 biggest Connecticut 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 53% of the 201,202 students enrolled across all 50 tracked Connecticut institutions. Mid-pack by size sits near Lincoln Technical Institute-New Britain (928 students, 0.00/1k).

3
Post UniversityWaterbury · 16,178 students
Enrollment
16,178
Incidents /1k
0.37
4
Yale UniversityNew Haven · 15,564 students
Enrollment
15,564
Incidents /1k
11.44
#InstitutionEnrollmentIncidents /1k
1Connecticut State Community CollegeHartford · 36,315 students36,315100% of the leader · rank #10.14
2University of ConnecticutStorrs · 28,306 students28,30678% of the leader · rank #22.01
3Post UniversityWaterbury · 16,178 students16,17845% of the leader · rank #30.37
4Yale UniversityNew Haven · 15,564 students15,56443% of the leader · rank #411.44
5Sacred Heart UniversityFairfield · 11,022 students11,02230% of the leader · rank #52.00
6Central Connecticut State UniversityNew Britain · 9,997 students9,99728% of the leader · rank #62.70
7Quinnipiac UniversityHamden · 9,424 students9,42426% of the leader · rank #70.21
8Southern Connecticut State UniversityNew Haven · 9,377 students9,37726% of the leader · rank #80.85
9University of New HavenWest Haven · 9,229 students9,22925% of the leader · rank #91.73
10Fairfield UniversityFairfield · 6,864 students6,86419% of the leader · rank #101.46
11University of HartfordWest Hartford · 6,015 students6,01517% of the leader · rank #113.16
12Eastern Connecticut State UniversityWillimantic · 4,355 students4,35512% of the leader · rank #122.07
13Western Connecticut State UniversityDanbury · 4,169 students4,16911% of the leader · rank #132.16
14Wesleyan UniversityMiddletown · 4,011 students4,01111% of the leader · rank #143.24
15University of BridgeportBridgeport · 3,838 students3,83811% of the leader · rank #152.61

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 Connecticut: closest on tracked campus count (50 here) and closest on unweighted average 2024 Clery rate (1.48/1k 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: Montana sits nearest on unweighted campus average (+0.09/1k). Inside Connecticut, open Connecticut State Community College's campus sheet next.

Connecticut State Community College profile → | All states → | Connecticut net price → | Incident tool → | Methodology →

Connecticut campus safety FAQ

What are the safest colleges in Connecticut?

Among Connecticut campuses that reported at least one 2024 Criminal Offense or VAWA incident in the Clery categories used here, Connecticut State Community College has the lowest rate (0.14 per 1,000 students). Next among nonzero reporters: Quinnipiac University (0.21/1k); Post University (0.37/1k). 28 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 Connecticut?

In Connecticut, campuses with any 2024 Criminal Offenses or VAWA incidents in the score categories are ordered by incidents per 1,000 students - Connecticut State Community College currently leads that nonzero list at 0.14/1k. Zero-report and unscored campuses stay unranked and alphabetical. See /methodology for the full rate definition.

How many colleges in Connecticut are compared?

This page covers 50 tracked higher-education institutions in Connecticut, serving about 201,202 enrolled students combined across 29 cities. 22 carry a ranked nonzero rate; 28 are listed without a safety ordinal. By enrollment the largest are Connecticut State Community College (36,315); University of Connecticut (28,306); Post University (16,178). Nearby state averages for context: Montana (1.57/1k); Maine (1.60/1k); Ohio (1.34/1k); Oklahoma (1.64/1k); Georgia (1.66/1k); U.S. Virgin Islands (1.67/1k).

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.