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New Hampshire Campus Safety

According to the U.S. Department of Education's Clery Act filings, this covers on-campus safety for all 31 tracked colleges and universities in New Hampshire, ranked by reported incident rate per 1,000 enrolled students.

31
Institutions tracked
1.88
Avg incidents / 1k
#23
State safety rank
235,635
Students enrolled

Data updated June 2026

The state in one line

Across New Hampshire's 31 campuses, University of New Hampshire at Manchester reports the lowest rate (0.00 per 1,000), the median campus reports 0.00, and 18 campuses reported zero on-campus incidents.

31
campuses tracked
1.88
statewide avg, per 1,000
0.00
safest - University of New
18
campuses reporting zero

Per-1,000-student rates let small and large campuses be compared fairly, but a handful of reports at a small school can still produce a high rate. Read alongside enrollment.

New Hampshire reports Clery Act campus safety data across 31 higher education institutions distributed across 18 cities , serving approximately 235,635 enrolled students combined. The statewide average safety score stands at 1.88 on-campus incidents per 1,000 enrolled students, placing New Hampshire at national rank #23 among US states for campus safety outcomes. The median institution in New Hampshire reports 0.00 incidents per 1,000 students, while 18 campuses reported zero on-campus incidents during the survey window.

The largest institution by enrollment is Southern New Hampshire University with 184,099 students and a safety score of 0.09. Raw incident counts across institutions in this state must be interpreted alongside enrollment size, a large urban research university and a small rural liberal arts college produce very different absolute numbers for identical underlying risk.

Every institution listed below participates in federal financial aid programs and is therefore legally required under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act to publish annual on-campus crime statistics. The data is collected by the US Department of Education via the OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey. Rankings shown on this page reflect incident rates per 1,000 enrolled students, so smaller schools with a handful of reports can score worse than large universities with dozens of reports. Use the table below to compare campuses with similar enrollment profiles before drawing conclusions about relative safety.

New Hampshire campuses, ranked by safety

# Campus EnrollmentIncidents /1k
1 University of New Hampshire at Manchester Manchester · 748 students 748 0.00 4% of the leader · rank #1
2 White Mountains Community College Berlin · 508 students 508 0.00 4% of the leader · rank #2
3 River Valley Community College Claremont · 674 students 674 0.00 4% of the leader · rank #3
4 Lakes Region Community College Laconia · 695 students 695 0.00 4% of the leader · rank #4
5 Manchester Community College Manchester · 2,012 students 2,012 0.00 4% of the leader · rank #5
6 Nashua Community College Nashua · 1,262 students 1,262 0.00 4% of the leader · rank #6
7 Great Bay Community College Portsmouth · 1,440 students 1,440 0.00 4% of the leader · rank #7
8 University of New Hampshire College of Professional Studies Online Concord · 1,326 students 1,326 0.00 4% of the leader · rank #8
9 Southern New Hampshire University Manchester · 184,099 students 184,099 0.09 4% of the leader · rank #9
10 New England College Henniker · 2,856 students 2,856 0.35 4% of the leader · rank #10
11 Rivier University Nashua · 2,879 students 2,879 1.74 12% of the leader · rank #11
12 Franklin Pierce University Rindge · 1,637 students 1,637 1.83 13% of the leader · rank #12
13 Saint Anselm College Manchester · 2,078 students 2,078 2.89 20% of the leader · rank #13
14 Antioch University-New England Keene · 967 students 967 3.10 22% of the leader · rank #14
15 Plymouth State University Plymouth · 3,839 students 3,839 3.91 27% of the leader · rank #15
16 Keene State College Keene · 2,846 students 2,846 4.22 29% of the leader · rank #16
17 NHTI-Concord's Community College Concord · 2,613 students 2,613 5.74 40% of the leader · rank #17
18 University of New Hampshire-Main Campus Durham · 13,626 students 13,626 6.31 44% of the leader · rank #18
19 Colby-Sawyer College New London · 950 students 950 6.32 44% of the leader · rank #19
20 University of New Hampshire-Franklin Pierce School of Law Concord · 685 students 685 7.30 51% of the leader · rank #20
21 Dartmouth College Hanover · 6,746 students 6,746 14.38 100% of the leader · rank #21
22 Empire Beauty School-Hooksett Hooksett · 327 students 327 0.00 4% of the leader · rank #22
23 Empire Beauty School-Laconia Laconia · 82 students 82 0.00 4% of the leader · rank #23
24 Empire Beauty School-Somersworth Somersworth · 168 students 168 0.00 4% of the leader · rank #24
25 Harmony Health Care Institute Merrimack · 164 students 164 0.00 4% of the leader · rank #25
26 Keene Beauty Academy Keene · 93 students 93 0.00 4% of the leader · rank #26
27 New Hampshire Institute for Therapeutic Arts Nashua · 24 students 24 0.00 4% of the leader · rank #27
28 Paul Mitchell the School-Portsmouth Portsmouth · 61 students 61 0.00 4% of the leader · rank #28
29 St Joseph School of Nursing Nashua · 96 students 96 0.00 4% of the leader · rank #29
30 Thomas More College of Liberal Arts Merrimack · 95 students 95 0.00 4% of the leader · rank #30
31 Upper Valley Educators Institute Lebanon · 39 students 39 0.00 4% of the leader · rank #31

Related

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What this means for you

Use New Hampshire's list as a starting point for comparison, not a final judgment on any one campus.

  • Weigh a New Hampshire campus against similarly-sized institutions, scale changes what a raw count means. Compare campuses
  • See University of New Hampshire at Manchester's full profile and how its rate breaks down by incident category. View University of New
  • National rankings put this state in context against every other state. National rankings

Figures reflect the June 2026 Clery Act reporting release as filed with the U.S. Department of Education.

Data sourced from the U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety & Security Survey (Clery Act). See our methodology. Retrieved and formatted by PlainCampus Editorial.

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.

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