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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.

#CampusEnrollmentIncidents /1k
1Delgado Community CollegeNew Orleans · 12,712 students12,7120.084% of the leader · rank #1
2Baton Rouge Community CollegeBaton Rouge · 11,182 students11,1820.364% of the leader · rank #2
3Fletcher Technical Community CollegeSchriever · 2,663 students2,6630.384% of the leader · rank #3
4New Orleans Baptist Theological SeminaryNew Orleans · 2,349 students2,3490.434% of the leader · rank #4
5Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New OrleansNew Orleans · 2,750 students2,7500.734% of the leader · rank #5
6Southern University at ShreveportShreveport · 2,951 students2,9511.024% of the leader · rank #6
7Nicholls State UniversityThibodaux · 6,043 students6,0431.164% of the leader · rank #7
8Louisiana State University-ShreveportShreveport · 10,749 students10,7491.215% of the leader · rank #8
9Louisiana Tech UniversityRuston · 11,873 students11,8731.265% of the leader · rank #9
10Bossier Parish Community CollegeBossier City · 5,561 students5,5611.626% of the leader · rank #10
11Loyola University New OrleansNew Orleans · 4,250 students4,2501.656% of the leader · rank #11
12University of Louisiana at LafayetteLafayette · 15,665 students15,6652.309% of the leader · rank #12
13University of Louisiana at MonroeMonroe · 8,601 students8,6012.339% of the leader · rank #13
14University of New OrleansNew Orleans · 6,501 students6,5012.7710% of the leader · rank #14
15Xavier University of LouisianaNew Orleans · 3,218 students3,2182.8010% of the leader · rank #15
16Southern University and A & M CollegeBaton Rouge · 8,279 students8,2793.0211% of the leader · rank #16
17Northwestern State University of LouisianaNatchitoches · 8,523 students8,5233.1712% of the leader · rank #17
18Chamberlain University-LouisianaJefferson · 625 students6253.2012% of the leader · rank #18
19McNeese State UniversityLake Charles · 6,241 students6,2413.2012% of the leader · rank #19
20Southern University at New OrleansNew Orleans · 2,468 students2,4683.2412% of the leader · rank #20
21Southeastern Louisiana UniversityHammond · 14,426 students14,4263.7414% of the leader · rank #21
22Grambling State UniversityGrambling · 5,150 students5,1504.6617% of the leader · rank #22
23Tulane University of LouisianaNew Orleans · 13,310 students13,3107.3628% of the leader · rank #23
24Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical CollegeBaton Rouge · 41,705 students41,7057.3928% of the leader · rank #24
25Dillard UniversityNew Orleans · 1,080 students1,08010.1938% of the leader · rank #25
26Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-ShreveportShreveport · 1,103 students1,10325.3995% of the leader · rank #26
27Centenary College of LouisianaShreveport · 712 students71226.69100% 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.

#CampusEnrollmentIncidents /1k
Academy of Interactive EntertainmentLafayette · 89 students890.00
Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute-Baton RougeBaton Rouge · 175 students1750.00
Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute-CovingtonCovington · 2,078 students2,0780.00
Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute-LafayetteLafayette · 144 students1440.00
Avery James CollegeLake Charles · 78 students780.00
Ayers Career CollegeShreveport · 256 students2560.00
Baton Rouge General Medical Center School of Nursing & School of Radiologic TechnologyBaton Rouge · 135 students1350.00
Belbo Beauty InstituteShreveport · 84 students840.00
Blalock's Professional Beauty CollegeShreveport · 32 students320.00
Blue Cliff College-AlexandriaAlexandria · 345 students3450.00
Blue Cliff College-LafayetteLafayette · 62 students620.00
Blue Cliff College-MetairieMetairie · 291 students2910.00
Bos-Man's Barber CollegeShreveport · 56 students560.00
Bridges Christian CollegeNew Orleans · 204 students2040.00
Celebrity Barber SchoolMonroe · 20 students200.00

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).

#InstitutionEnrollmentIncidents /1k
1Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical CollegeBaton Rouge · 41,705 students41,705100% of the leader · rank #17.39
2University of Louisiana at LafayetteLafayette · 15,665 students15,66538% of the leader · rank #22.30
3Southeastern Louisiana UniversityHammond · 14,426 students14,42635% of the leader · rank #33.74
4Tulane University of LouisianaNew Orleans · 13,310 students13,31032% of the leader · rank #47.36
5Delgado Community CollegeNew Orleans · 12,712 students12,71230% of the leader · rank #50.08
6Louisiana Tech UniversityRuston · 11,873 students11,87328% of the leader · rank #61.26
7Baton Rouge Community CollegeBaton Rouge · 11,182 students11,18227% of the leader · rank #70.36
8Louisiana State University-ShreveportShreveport · 10,749 students10,74926% of the leader · rank #81.21
9University of Louisiana at MonroeMonroe · 8,601 students8,60121% of the leader · rank #92.33
10Northwestern State University of LouisianaNatchitoches · 8,523 students8,52320% of the leader · rank #103.17
11Southern University and A & M CollegeBaton Rouge · 8,279 students8,27920% of the leader · rank #113.02
12Louisiana State University-AlexandriaAlexandria · 6,815 students6,81516% of the leader · rank #120.00
13University of New OrleansNew Orleans · 6,501 students6,50116% of the leader · rank #132.77
14McNeese State UniversityLake Charles · 6,241 students6,24115% of the leader · rank #143.20
15South Louisiana Community CollegeLafayette · 6,238 students6,23815% 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 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.