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Safest Colleges in New Hampshire

Federal Clery Act filings for all 29 tracked New Hampshire campuses, ranked by 2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 students. Among nonzero reporters, Southern New Hampshire University currently has the lowest rate.

29
Institutions tracked
2.27
Avg campus rate / 1k (29 of 29 scored)
1.65
Statewide rate / 1k
#35
Rank by avg campus rate
240,372
Students enrolled

Among nonzero Clery reporters, Southern New Hampshire University has the lowest rate in New Hampshire

According to U.S. Department of Education Clery Act filings, across 29 tracked campuses in New Hampshire, 18 reported zero 2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents used in the rate; among campuses with any in those categories, Southern New Hampshire University 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
29
average campus, per 1,000 (29 of 29 scored)
2.27
lowest nonzero rate - Southern New Hampshire
0.11
campuses at zero in score categories
18

Data updated August 2026

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Sheet NH · New Hampshire 2.27/1k campus avg · #35/59

RATE-MID · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · ZERO-HEAVY · WT-SMALL-HOT · BOOK-FULL · CONC-HEAVY

  • RATE-MID 2.27/1k
  • RANK-MID #35/59
  • PHOTO-FINISH Indiana · ±0.03
  • ZERO-HEAVY 62% zero
  • WT-SMALL-HOT Δ +0.61
  • BOOK-FULL 29/29
  • CONC-HEAVY top5 90%

Nearest campus-rate peer: Indiana (-0.03/1k)

New Hampshire sheet RATE-MID · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · ZERO-HEAVY · WT-SMALL-HOT · BOOK-FULL · CONC-HEAVY · peer Indiana. 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-MID · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · ZERO-HEAVY · WT-SMALL-HOT · BOOK-FULL · CONC-HEAVY. Nearest unweighted-rate peer is Indiana (-0.03/1k). Among nonzero reporters inside the state, Southern New Hampshire University 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 New Hampshire (18 of 29) reported zero in the 2024 score categories and stay unranked against each other. Among the nonzero reporters, Southern New Hampshire University leads at 0.11/1k, then New England College (0.61/1k); Great Bay Community College (0.68/1k). A high zero share is a filing pattern, not a proof that campuses are safer.

Campus-rate neighbourhood around New Hampshire

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

per 1,000 students

What this shows Neighbourhood of scored states around New Hampshire's 2.27/1k 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 New Hampshire, ranked by reported rate

Ranked from the lowest 2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA rate upward, counting only the 11 New Hampshire 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
1Southern New Hampshire UniversityManchester · 189,531 students189,5310.114% of the leader · rank #1
2New England CollegeHenniker · 3,275 students3,2750.614% of the leader · rank #2
3Great Bay Community CollegePortsmouth · 1,462 students1,4620.684% of the leader · rank #3
4Rivier UniversityNashua · 2,777 students2,7770.724% of the leader · rank #4
5University of New Hampshire at ManchesterManchester · 663 students6633.0212% of the leader · rank #5
6NHTI-Concord's Community CollegeConcord · 2,657 students2,6576.0224% of the leader · rank #6
7Saint Anselm CollegeManchester · 2,111 students2,1116.1624% of the leader · rank #7
8Keene State CollegeKeene · 2,848 students2,8487.0228% of the leader · rank #8
9Plymouth State UniversityPlymouth · 3,707 students3,7077.2829% of the leader · rank #9
10University of New Hampshire-Main CampusDurham · 13,554 students13,5548.7134% of the leader · rank #10
11Dartmouth CollegeHanover · 6,938 students6,93825.37100% of the leader · rank #11

Unranked campuses (18): zero score or no normalized rate

18 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 3 stay out of this HTML table so large states stay crawlable.

#CampusEnrollmentIncidents /1k
Antioch University-New EnglandKeene · 992 students9920.00
Colby-Sawyer CollegeNew London · 972 students9720.00
Empire Beauty School-HooksettHooksett · 306 students3060.00
Empire Beauty School-LaconiaLaconia · 92 students920.00
Empire Beauty School-SomersworthSomersworth · 184 students1840.00
Franklin Pierce UniversityRindge · 1,654 students1,6540.00
Harmony Health Care InstituteMerrimack · 153 students1530.00
Keene Beauty AcademyKeene · 50 students500.00
Lakes Region Community CollegeLaconia · 735 students7350.00
Manchester Community CollegeManchester · 2,081 students2,0810.00
Nashua Community CollegeNashua · 1,342 students1,3420.00
Paul Mitchell the School-PortsmouthPortsmouth · 73 students730.00
River Valley Community CollegeClaremont · 677 students6770.00
St Joseph School of NursingNashua · 95 students950.00
Thomas More College of Liberal ArtsMerrimack · 97 students970.00

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

The largest universities in New Hampshire by enrollment

Enrollment leaders: Southern New Hampshire University (189,531); University of New Hampshire-Main Campus (13,554); Dartmouth College (6,938), then 26 more. The 15 biggest New Hampshire 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 90% of the 240,372 students enrolled across all 29 tracked New Hampshire institutions. Mid-pack by size sits near Colby-Sawyer College (972 students, 0.00/1k).

#InstitutionEnrollmentIncidents /1k
1Southern New Hampshire UniversityManchester · 189,531 students189,531100% of the leader · rank #10.11
2University of New Hampshire-Main CampusDurham · 13,554 students13,5547% of the leader · rank #28.71
3Dartmouth CollegeHanover · 6,938 students6,9384% of the leader · rank #325.37
4Plymouth State UniversityPlymouth · 3,707 students3,7074% of the leader · rank #47.28
5New England CollegeHenniker · 3,275 students3,2754% of the leader · rank #50.61
6Keene State CollegeKeene · 2,848 students2,8484% of the leader · rank #67.02
7Rivier UniversityNashua · 2,777 students2,7774% of the leader · rank #70.72
8NHTI-Concord's Community CollegeConcord · 2,657 students2,6574% of the leader · rank #86.02
9Saint Anselm CollegeManchester · 2,111 students2,1114% of the leader · rank #96.16
10Manchester Community CollegeManchester · 2,081 students2,0814% of the leader · rank #100.00
11Franklin Pierce UniversityRindge · 1,654 students1,6544% of the leader · rank #110.00
12Great Bay Community CollegePortsmouth · 1,462 students1,4624% of the leader · rank #120.68
13Nashua Community CollegeNashua · 1,342 students1,3424% of the leader · rank #130.00
14Antioch University-New EnglandKeene · 992 students9924% of the leader · rank #140.00
15Colby-Sawyer CollegeNew London · 972 students9724% 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 New Hampshire: closest on tracked campus count (29 here) and closest on unweighted average 2024 Clery rate (2.27/1k 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: Indiana sits nearest on unweighted campus average (-0.03/1k). Inside New Hampshire, open Southern New Hampshire University's campus sheet next.

Southern New Hampshire University profile → | All states → | New Hampshire net price → | Incident tool → | Methodology →

New Hampshire campus safety FAQ

What are the safest colleges in New Hampshire?

Among New Hampshire campuses that reported at least one 2024 Criminal Offense or VAWA incident in the Clery categories used here, Southern New Hampshire University has the lowest rate (0.11 per 1,000 students). Next among nonzero reporters: New England College (0.61/1k); Great Bay Community College (0.68/1k). 18 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 New Hampshire?

In New Hampshire, campuses with any 2024 Criminal Offenses or VAWA incidents in the score categories are ordered by incidents per 1,000 students - Southern New Hampshire University 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 New Hampshire are compared?

This page covers 29 tracked higher-education institutions in New Hampshire, serving about 240,372 enrolled students combined across 18 cities. 11 carry a ranked nonzero rate; 18 are listed without a safety ordinal. By enrollment the largest are Southern New Hampshire University (189,531); University of New Hampshire-Main Campus (13,554); Dartmouth College (6,938). Nearby state averages for context: Indiana (2.24/1k); Virginia (2.23/1k); Tennessee (2.31/1k); North Carolina (2.22/1k); Wyoming (2.32/1k); American Samoa (2.37/1k).

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.