NJ State Rank: #6

New Jersey Campus Safety

146 colleges and universities in New Jersey. Average safety score: 0.65 incidents per 1,000 students. Ranked by Clery Act on-campus incident rate.

New Jersey reports Clery Act campus safety data across 146 higher education institutions distributed across 103 cities , serving approximately 403,913 enrolled students combined. The statewide average safety score stands at 0.65 on-campus incidents per 1,000 enrolled students, placing New Jersey at national rank #6 among US states for campus safety outcomes. The median institution in New Jersey reports 0.00 incidents per 1,000 students, while 101 campuses reported zero on-campus incidents during the survey window.

Eastwick College-Hackensack in Hackensack leads New Jersey with the lowest reported incident rate (0.00 per 1,000 students). The largest institution by enrollment is Rutgers University-New Brunswick with 50,617 students and a safety score of 2.69. 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.

State Rank Institution City Enrollment Safety Score
1 Eastwick College-Hackensack Hackensack 874 0.00
2 Atlantic Cape Community College MAYS LANDING 4,273 0.00
3 Beth Medrash Govoha LAKEWOOD 8,824 0.00
4 Lincoln Technical Institute-Iselin ISELIN 586 0.00
5 American Institute-Clifton CLIFTON 735 0.00
6 Rowan College of South Jersey-Cumberland Campus Vineland 2,557 0.00
7 Eastwick College-Ramsey RAMSEY 929 0.00
8 Hudson County Community College JERSEY CITY 7,229 0.00
9 Lincoln Technical Institute-Union UNION 1,648 0.00
10 JFK Muhlenberg Harold B. and Dorothy A. Snyder Schools PLAINFIELD 572 0.00
11 Ocean County College Toms River 7,429 0.00
12 Pennco Tech-Blackwood BLACKWOOD 996 0.00
13 Salem Community College Carneys Point 1,094 0.00
14 Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro Hasbrouck Heights 500 0.00
15 Warren County Community College Washington 3,342 0.00
16 Lincoln Technical Institute-Moorestown Moorestown 633 0.00
17 Lincoln Technical Institute-Mahwah Mahwah 964 0.00
18 Pillar College Newark 554 0.00
19 Lincoln Technical Institute-Paramus PARAMUS 608 0.00
20 Strayer University-New Jersey Piscataway 602 0.00
21 Garden State Science and Technology Institute Jersey City 576 0.00
22 Universal Technical Institute-Bloomfield Bloomfield 1,200 0.00
23 Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine Nutley 567 0.00
24 Bergen Community College PARAMUS 11,801 0.08
25 Middlesex College EDISON 11,471 0.09
26 Camden County College Blackwood 7,591 0.13
27 Thomas Edison State University TRENTON 7,587 0.13
28 Essex County College NEWARK 6,790 0.15
29 Mercer County Community College West Windsor 6,219 0.16
30 Rowan College of South Jersey-Gloucester Campus SEWELL 5,390 0.19
31 Passaic County Community College PATERSON 5,165 0.19
32 Rowan College at Burlington County Mount Laurel 6,547 0.31
33 Sussex County Community College Newton 2,220 0.45
34 County College of Morris RANDOLPH 6,069 0.49
35 UCNJ Union College of Union County, NJ CRANFORD 8,081 0.49
36 Berkeley College-Woodland Park Woodland Park 2,007 0.50
37 Caldwell University CALDWELL 1,864 0.54
38 New Jersey Institute of Technology NEWARK 13,007 0.54
39 Raritan Valley Community College Somerville 6,587 0.61
40 Kean University UNION 13,352 0.75
41 Chamberlain University-New Jersey North Brunswick 1,316 0.76
42 New Jersey City University JERSEY CITY 5,833 0.86
43 Fairleigh Dickinson University-Metropolitan Campus TEANECK 7,607 0.92
44 Monmouth University WEST LONG BRANCH 4,981 1.00
45 Brookdale Community College LINCROFT 9,916 1.01
46 Georgian Court University LAKEWOOD 1,910 1.05
47 Saint Peter's University JERSEY CITY 3,673 1.09
48 Stevens Institute of Technology HOBOKEN 8,842 1.36
49 Seton Hall University South Orange 9,494 1.79
50 Fairleigh Dickinson University-Florham Campus MADISON 2,778 1.80
51 Jersey College Teterboro 4,089 1.96
52 Ramapo College of New Jersey MAHWAH 5,521 2.17
53 The College of New Jersey Ewing 7,652 2.22
54 Montclair State University MONTCLAIR 22,570 2.39
55 William Paterson University of New Jersey WAYNE 9,426 2.44
56 Rutgers University-New Brunswick NEW BRUNSWICK 50,617 2.69
57 Rutgers University-Camden CAMDEN 5,776 2.94
58 Saint Elizabeth University Morristown 1,009 2.97
59 Rider University LAWRENCEVILLE 4,083 3.92
60 Felician University Lodi 2,236 4.47
61 Centenary University Hackettstown 1,453 4.82
62 Rowan University Glassboro 19,660 5.24
63 Stockton University Galloway 8,788 5.69
64 Princeton University PRINCETON 8,922 6.61
65 Drew University MADISON 2,226 7.19
66 Rutgers University-Newark NEWARK 10,809 8.14
67 Bloomfield College BLOOMFIELD 910 8.79
— Adult and Continuing Education-BCTS Hackensack 54 0.00
— Advantage Career Institute Eatontown 149 0.00
— American Institute of Alternative Medicine East Brunswick 32 0.00
— American Institute of Medical Sciences & Education Piscataway 397 0.00
— American Institute-Cherry Hill Cherry Hill 400 0.00
— American Institute-Somerset Somerset 274 0.00
— American Institute-Toms River Toms River 463 0.00
— Artistic Academy of Hair Design MORRIS PLAINS 93 0.00
— ASI Career Institute Turnersville 33 0.00
— Bais Medrash Mayan Hatorah Lakewood 25 0.00
— Bais Medrash Toras Chesed Lakewood 125 0.00
— Best Care College EAST ORANGE 46 0.00
— Beth Medrash of Asbury Park Lakewood 109 0.00
— Burlington County Institute of Technology-Adult Education Burlington 250 0.00
— Capital Health School of Nursing TRENTON 53 0.00
— Capital Health School of Radiologic Technology TRENTON 15 0.00
— Center for the Healing Arts Voorhees 36 0.00
— Christine Valmy International School of Esthetics & Cosmetology Wayne 247 0.00
— Cutting Edge Academy Succasunna 94 0.00
— DeVry University-New Jersey Iselin 74 0.00
— Eastern International College-Jersey City Jersey City 474 0.00
— Eastern School of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine BLOOMFIELD 50 0.00
— Eastwick College-Nutley Nutley 456 0.00
— Empire Beauty School-Bloomfield BLOOMFIELD 117 0.00
— Empire Beauty School-Cherry Hill CHERRY HILL 125 0.00
— Empire Beauty School-Union UNION 113 0.00
— Fortis Institute-Lawrenceville Lawrenceville 305 0.00
— Fortis Institute-Wayne Wayne 404 0.00
— Healthcare Training Institute UNION 103 0.00
— Hohokus School of Trade and Technical Sciences PATERSON 134 0.00
— Holy Name Medical Center-Sister Claire Tynan School of Nursing Teaneck 181 0.00
— Innovate Salon Academy South Plainfield 247 0.00
— Innovate Salon Academy Ewing 153 0.00
— Keser Torah-Mayan Hatalmud Belmar 59 0.00
— Lincoln Technical Institute-South Plainfield South Plainfield 324 0.00
— MCVSD Neptune 63 0.00
— Medical Career Institute Ocean 162 0.00
— Mobile Technical Training South Hackensack 31 0.00
— Morris County Vocational School District Denville 32 0.00
— National Career Institute East Orange 148 0.00
— New Brunswick Theological Seminary New Brunswick 131 0.00
— New Community Career & Technical Institute NEWARK 18 0.00
— Ocean County Vocational-Technical School TOMS RIVER 450 0.00
— P B Cosmetology Education Center GLOUCESTER CITY 113 0.00
— P C Age-Jersey City Jersey City 163 0.00
— Parisian Beauty School HACKENSACK 464 0.00
— PC AGE-Metropark Iselin 56 0.00
— Princeton Theological Seminary PRINCETON 287 0.00
— Prism Career Institute-Cherry Hill Cherry HIll 328 3.05
— Prism Career Institute-West Atlantic City West Atlantic City 273 0.00
— Pro Beauty Academy Edison 100 0.00
— Rabbi Jacob Joseph School EDISON 96 0.00
— Rabbinical College of America MORRISTOWN 206 0.00
— Rabbinical Seminary Mkor Chaim Lakewood 81 0.00
— Rizzieri Aveda School for Beauty and Wellness Voorhees 381 0.00
— Robert Fiance Beauty Schools PERTH AMBOY 185 0.00
— Robert Fiance Beauty Schools-North Plainfield NORTH PLAINFIELD 160 0.00
— Robert Fiance Beauty Schools-West New York WEST NEW YORK 229 0.00
— Salon Professional Academy Howell 143 0.00
— Seminary Bnos Chaim Lakewood 177 0.00
— Shore Beauty School Egg Harbor Township 174 0.00
— Talmudical Academy-New Jersey ADELPHIA 78 0.00
— Total Image Beauty Academy Union City 293 0.00
— Union County Vocational Technical School Scotch Plains 60 0.00
— Universal Training Institute Perth Amboy 133 0.00
— Yeshiva Bais Aharon Lakewood 13 0.00
— Yeshiva Chemdas Hatorah Lakewood 79 0.00
— Yeshiva Gedola Tiferes Yaakov Yitzchok Lakewood 69 0.00
— Yeshiva Gedola Tiferes Yerachmiel Lakewood 172 0.00
— Yeshiva Gedolah Keren Hatorah Lakewood 189 0.00
— Yeshiva Gedolah of Cliffwood Keyport 55 0.00
— Yeshiva Gedolah of Woodlake Village Lakewood 79 0.00
— Yeshiva Gedolah Shaarei Shmuel Lakewood 132 0.00
— Yeshiva Gedolah Tiferes Boruch North Plainfield 70 0.00
— Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Leyma Union 47 0.00
— Yeshiva Toras Chaim Lakewood 225 0.00
— Yeshiva Yesodei Hatorah Lakewood 72 0.00
— Yeshivas Be'er Yitzchok Elizabeth 52 0.00
— Yeshivas Emek Hatorah Howell 93 0.00

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