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Safest Colleges in Louisiana

Federal Clery Act filings for all 102 tracked Louisiana campuses, ranked by 2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 students. Among nonzero reporters, Delgado Community College currently has the lowest rate.

102
Institutions tracked
1.20
Avg campus rate / 1k (101 of 102 scored)
2.94
Statewide rate / 1k
#16
Rank by avg campus rate
262,097
Students enrolled

Among nonzero Clery reporters, Delgado Community College has the lowest rate in Louisiana

According to U.S. Department of Education Clery Act filings, across 102 tracked campuses in Louisiana, 74 reported zero 2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents used in the rate; among campuses with any in those categories, Delgado Community College has the lowest rate at 0.08 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
102
average campus, per 1,000 (101 of 102 scored)
1.20
lowest nonzero rate - Delgado Community College
0.08
campuses at zero in score categories
74

Data updated August 2026

Clery Act plate

Sheet LA · Louisiana 1.20/1k campus avg · #16/59

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

  • RATE-LOW 1.20/1k
  • RANK-UPPER #16/59
  • PHOTO-FINISH Michigan · ±0.02
  • ZERO-HEAVY 73% zero
  • WT-LARGE-HOT Δ −1.74
  • BOOK-FULL 101/102
  • CONC-MID top5 37%

Nearest campus-rate peer: Michigan (-0.02/1k)

Louisiana sheet RATE-LOW · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · ZERO-HEAVY · WT-LARGE-HOT · BOOK-FULL · CONC-MID · peer Michigan. 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 Michigan (-0.02/1k). Among nonzero reporters inside the state, Delgado Community College leads at 0.08/1k. 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 Louisiana (74 of 101) reported zero in the 2024 score categories and stay unranked against each other. Among the nonzero reporters, Delgado Community College leads at 0.08/1k, then Baton Rouge Community College (0.36/1k); Fletcher Technical Community College (0.38/1k). A high zero share is a filing pattern, not a proof that campuses are safer.

Campus-rate neighbourhood around Louisiana

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

per 1,000 students

What this shows Neighbourhood of scored states around Louisiana's 1.20/1k 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 Louisiana, ranked by reported rate

Ranked from the lowest 2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA rate upward, counting only the 27 Louisiana 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.

25
Dillard University New Orleans · 1,080 students
Enrollment
1,080
Incidents /1k
10.19
# Campus EnrollmentIncidents /1k
1 Delgado Community College New Orleans · 12,712 students 12,712 0.08 4% of the leader · rank #1
2 Baton Rouge Community College Baton Rouge · 11,182 students 11,182 0.36 4% of the leader · rank #2
3 Fletcher Technical Community College Schriever · 2,663 students 2,663 0.38 4% of the leader · rank #3
4 New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary New Orleans · 2,349 students 2,349 0.43 4% of the leader · rank #4
5 Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans New Orleans · 2,750 students 2,750 0.73 4% of the leader · rank #5
6 Southern University at Shreveport Shreveport · 2,951 students 2,951 1.02 4% of the leader · rank #6
7 Nicholls State University Thibodaux · 6,043 students 6,043 1.16 4% of the leader · rank #7
8 Louisiana State University-Shreveport Shreveport · 10,749 students 10,749 1.21 5% of the leader · rank #8
9 Louisiana Tech University Ruston · 11,873 students 11,873 1.26 5% of the leader · rank #9
10 Bossier Parish Community College Bossier City · 5,561 students 5,561 1.62 6% of the leader · rank #10
11 Loyola University New Orleans New Orleans · 4,250 students 4,250 1.65 6% of the leader · rank #11
12 University of Louisiana at Lafayette Lafayette · 15,665 students 15,665 2.30 9% of the leader · rank #12
13 University of Louisiana at Monroe Monroe · 8,601 students 8,601 2.33 9% of the leader · rank #13
14 University of New Orleans New Orleans · 6,501 students 6,501 2.77 10% of the leader · rank #14
15 Xavier University of Louisiana New Orleans · 3,218 students 3,218 2.80 10% of the leader · rank #15
16 Southern University and A & M College Baton Rouge · 8,279 students 8,279 3.02 11% of the leader · rank #16
17 Northwestern State University of Louisiana Natchitoches · 8,523 students 8,523 3.17 12% of the leader · rank #17
18 Chamberlain University-Louisiana Jefferson · 625 students 625 3.20 12% of the leader · rank #18
19 McNeese State University Lake Charles · 6,241 students 6,241 3.20 12% of the leader · rank #19
20 Southern University at New Orleans New Orleans · 2,468 students 2,468 3.24 12% of the leader · rank #20
21 Southeastern Louisiana University Hammond · 14,426 students 14,426 3.74 14% of the leader · rank #21
22 Grambling State University Grambling · 5,150 students 5,150 4.66 17% of the leader · rank #22
23 Tulane University of Louisiana New Orleans · 13,310 students 13,310 7.36 28% of the leader · rank #23
24 Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Baton Rouge · 41,705 students 41,705 7.39 28% of the leader · rank #24
25 Dillard University New Orleans · 1,080 students 1,080 10.19 38% of the leader · rank #25
26 Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport Shreveport · 1,103 students 1,103 25.39 95% of the leader · rank #26
27 Centenary College of Louisiana Shreveport · 712 students 712 26.69 100% of the leader · rank #27

Unranked campuses (75): zero score or no normalized rate

74 filed zero 2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents in the score categories; other Clery tables can still contain reports. 1 lack a normalized rate because no positive enrollment denominator is available. Neither group supports a safety ordering, so these campuses are listed alphabetically without positions. Showing 15 alphabetically; the remaining 60 stay out of this HTML table so large states stay crawlable.

# Campus EnrollmentIncidents /1k
Academy of Interactive Entertainment Lafayette · 89 students 89 0.00
Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute-Baton Rouge Baton Rouge · 175 students 175 0.00
Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute-Covington Covington · 2,078 students 2,078 0.00
Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute-Lafayette Lafayette · 144 students 144 0.00
Avery James College Lake Charles · 78 students 78 0.00
Ayers Career College Shreveport · 256 students 256 0.00
Baton Rouge General Medical Center School of Nursing & School of Radiologic Technology Baton Rouge · 135 students 135 0.00
Belbo Beauty Institute Shreveport · 84 students 84 0.00
Blalock's Professional Beauty College Shreveport · 32 students 32 0.00
Blue Cliff College-Alexandria Alexandria · 345 students 345 0.00
Blue Cliff College-Lafayette Lafayette · 62 students 62 0.00
Blue Cliff College-Metairie Metairie · 291 students 291 0.00
Bos-Man's Barber College Shreveport · 56 students 56 0.00
Bridges Christian College New Orleans · 204 students 204 0.00
Celebrity Barber School Monroe · 20 students 20 0.00

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

The largest universities in Louisiana by enrollment

Enrollment leaders: Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College (41,705); University of Louisiana at Lafayette (15,665); Southeastern Louisiana University (14,426), then 98 more. The 15 biggest Louisiana 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 37% of the 262,097 students enrolled across all 101 tracked Louisiana institutions. Mid-pack by size sits near Ayers Career College (256 students, 0.00/1k).

# Institution EnrollmentIncidents /1k
1 Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Baton Rouge · 41,705 students 41,705 100% of the leader · rank #1 7.39
2 University of Louisiana at Lafayette Lafayette · 15,665 students 15,665 38% of the leader · rank #2 2.30
3 Southeastern Louisiana University Hammond · 14,426 students 14,426 35% of the leader · rank #3 3.74
4 Tulane University of Louisiana New Orleans · 13,310 students 13,310 32% of the leader · rank #4 7.36
5 Delgado Community College New Orleans · 12,712 students 12,712 30% of the leader · rank #5 0.08
6 Louisiana Tech University Ruston · 11,873 students 11,873 28% of the leader · rank #6 1.26
7 Baton Rouge Community College Baton Rouge · 11,182 students 11,182 27% of the leader · rank #7 0.36
8 Louisiana State University-Shreveport Shreveport · 10,749 students 10,749 26% of the leader · rank #8 1.21
9 University of Louisiana at Monroe Monroe · 8,601 students 8,601 21% of the leader · rank #9 2.33
10 Northwestern State University of Louisiana Natchitoches · 8,523 students 8,523 20% of the leader · rank #10 3.17
11 Southern University and A & M College Baton Rouge · 8,279 students 8,279 20% of the leader · rank #11 3.02
12 Louisiana State University-Alexandria Alexandria · 6,815 students 6,815 16% of the leader · rank #12 0.00
13 University of New Orleans New Orleans · 6,501 students 6,501 16% of the leader · rank #13 2.77
14 McNeese State University Lake Charles · 6,241 students 6,241 15% of the leader · rank #14 3.20
15 South Louisiana Community College Lafayette · 6,238 students 6,238 15% 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 Louisiana: closest on tracked campus count (102 here) and closest on unweighted average 2024 Clery rate (1.20/1k 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: Michigan sits nearest on unweighted campus average (-0.02/1k). Inside Louisiana, open Delgado Community College's campus sheet next.

Delgado Community College profile → | All states → | Louisiana net price → | Incident tool → | Methodology →

Louisiana campus safety FAQ

What are the safest colleges in Louisiana?

Among Louisiana campuses that reported at least one 2024 Criminal Offense or VAWA incident in the Clery categories used here, Delgado Community College has the lowest rate (0.08 per 1,000 students). Next among nonzero reporters: Baton Rouge Community College (0.36/1k); Fletcher Technical Community College (0.38/1k). 74 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 Louisiana?

In Louisiana, campuses with any 2024 Criminal Offenses or VAWA incidents in the score categories are ordered by incidents per 1,000 students - Delgado Community College currently leads that nonzero list at 0.08/1k. Zero-report and unscored campuses stay unranked and alphabetical. See /methodology for the full rate definition.

How many colleges in Louisiana are compared?

This page covers 102 tracked higher-education institutions in Louisiana, serving about 262,097 enrolled students combined across 32 cities. 27 carry a ranked nonzero rate; 75 are listed without a safety ordinal. By enrollment the largest are Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College (41,705); University of Louisiana at Lafayette (15,665); Southeastern Louisiana University (14,426). Nearby state averages for context: Michigan (1.18/1k); South Dakota (1.17/1k); Federated States of Micronesia (1.16/1k); Arkansas (1.11/1k); Ohio (1.34/1k); Connecticut (1.48/1k).

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.