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Safest Colleges in New Jersey

Federal Clery Act filings for all 145 tracked New Jersey campuses, ranked by 2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 students. Among nonzero reporters, Beth Medrash Govoha currently has the lowest rate.

145
Institutions tracked
0.69
Avg campus rate / 1k (145 of 145 scored)
1.81
Statewide rate / 1k
#7
Rank by avg campus rate
412,250
Students enrolled

Among nonzero Clery reporters, Beth Medrash Govoha has the lowest rate in New Jersey

According to U.S. Department of Education Clery Act filings, across 145 tracked campuses in New Jersey, 103 reported zero 2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents used in the rate; among campuses with any in those categories, Beth Medrash Govoha has the lowest rate at 0.10 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
145
average campus, per 1,000 (145 of 145 scored)
0.69
lowest nonzero rate - Beth Medrash Govoha
0.10
campuses at zero in score categories
103

Data updated August 2026

Clery Act plate

Sheet NJ · New Jersey 0.69/1k campus avg · #7/59

RATE-QUIET · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · ZERO-HEAVY · WT-LARGE-HOT · BOOK-FULL · CONC-FLAT

  • RATE-QUIET 0.69/1k
  • RANK-TOP #7/59
  • PHOTO-FINISH Idaho · ±0.08
  • ZERO-HEAVY 71% zero
  • WT-LARGE-HOT Δ −1.12
  • BOOK-FULL 145/145
  • CONC-FLAT top5 30%

Nearest campus-rate peer: Idaho (+0.08/1k)

New Jersey sheet RATE-QUIET · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · ZERO-HEAVY · WT-LARGE-HOT · BOOK-FULL · CONC-FLAT · peer Idaho. 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-QUIET · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · ZERO-HEAVY · WT-LARGE-HOT · BOOK-FULL · CONC-FLAT. Nearest unweighted-rate peer is Idaho (+0.08/1k). Among nonzero reporters inside the state, Beth Medrash Govoha leads at 0.10/1k. 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 Jersey (103 of 145) reported zero in the 2024 score categories and stay unranked against each other. Among the nonzero reporters, Beth Medrash Govoha leads at 0.10/1k, then UCNJ Union College of Union County, New Jersey (0.12/1k); Camden County College (0.13/1k). A high zero share is a filing pattern, not a proof that campuses are safer.

Campus-rate neighbourhood around New Jersey

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

per 1,000 students

What this shows Neighbourhood of scored states around New Jersey's 0.69/1k 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 Jersey, ranked by reported rate

Ranked from the lowest 2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA rate upward, counting only the 42 New Jersey 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.

9
Jersey College Teterboro · 4,478 students
Enrollment
4,478
Incidents /1k
0.45
13
Kean University Union · 13,905 students
Enrollment
13,905
Incidents /1k
0.79
20
Drew University Madison · 2,232 students
Enrollment
2,232
Incidents /1k
1.34
22
Monmouth University West Long Branch · 4,767 students
Enrollment
4,767
Incidents /1k
1.47
29
Rider University Lawrenceville · 4,003 students
Enrollment
4,003
Incidents /1k
2.25
37
Rowan University Glassboro · 21,026 students
Enrollment
21,026
Incidents /1k
6.61
# Campus EnrollmentIncidents /1k
1 Beth Medrash Govoha Lakewood · 9,657 students 9,657 0.10 4% of the leader · rank #1
2 UCNJ Union College of Union County, New Jersey Cranford · 8,330 students 8,330 0.12 4% of the leader · rank #2
3 Camden County College Blackwood · 7,622 students 7,622 0.13 4% of the leader · rank #3
4 Fairleigh Dickinson University-Metropolitan Campus Teaneck · 8,045 students 8,045 0.25 4% of the leader · rank #4
5 Bergen Community College Paramus · 11,720 students 11,720 0.26 4% of the leader · rank #5
6 Rowan College of South Jersey-Gloucester Campus Sewell · 5,218 students 5,218 0.38 5% of the leader · rank #6
7 Essex County College Newark · 7,026 students 7,026 0.43 5% of the leader · rank #7
8 Raritan Valley Community College Branchburg · 6,762 students 6,762 0.44 5% of the leader · rank #8
9 Jersey College Teterboro · 4,478 students 4,478 0.45 5% of the leader · rank #9
10 County College of Morris Randolph · 6,131 students 6,131 0.49 6% of the leader · rank #10
11 New Jersey City University Jersey City · 5,429 students 5,429 0.55 7% of the leader · rank #11
12 Atlantic Cape Community College Mays Landing · 4,052 students 4,052 0.74 9% of the leader · rank #12
13 Kean University Union · 13,905 students 13,905 0.79 10% of the leader · rank #13
14 Chamberlain University-New Jersey North Brunswick · 1,226 students 1,226 0.82 10% of the leader · rank #14
15 Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken · 8,469 students 8,469 0.94 12% of the leader · rank #15
16 New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark · 13,247 students 13,247 0.98 12% of the leader · rank #16
17 Fairleigh Dickinson University-Florham Campus Madison · 2,885 students 2,885 1.04 13% of the leader · rank #17
18 Saint Elizabeth University Morristown · 871 students 871 1.15 14% of the leader · rank #18
19 Brookdale Community College Lincroft · 9,900 students 9,900 1.31 16% of the leader · rank #19
20 Drew University Madison · 2,232 students 2,232 1.34 16% of the leader · rank #20
21 Mercer County Community College West Windsor · 6,394 students 6,394 1.41 17% of the leader · rank #21
22 Monmouth University West Long Branch · 4,767 students 4,767 1.47 18% of the leader · rank #22
23 Caldwell University Caldwell · 2,005 students 2,005 1.50 18% of the leader · rank #23
24 Ramapo College of New Jersey Mahwah · 5,981 students 5,981 1.67 20% of the leader · rank #24
25 Seton Hall University South Orange · 9,571 students 9,571 1.78 22% of the leader · rank #25
26 William Paterson University of New Jersey Wayne · 9,942 students 9,942 1.81 22% of the leader · rank #26
27 Saint Peter's University Jersey City · 3,572 students 3,572 1.96 24% of the leader · rank #27
28 Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick · 52,269 students 52,269 2.24 27% of the leader · rank #28
29 Rider University Lawrenceville · 4,003 students 4,003 2.25 27% of the leader · rank #29
30 Georgian Court University Lakewood · 2,013 students 2,013 2.48 30% of the leader · rank #30
31 Montclair State University Montclair · 23,375 students 23,375 2.70 33% of the leader · rank #31
32 The College of New Jersey Ewing · 8,141 students 8,141 3.69 45% of the leader · rank #32
33 Rutgers University-Camden Camden · 5,675 students 5,675 3.70 45% of the leader · rank #33
34 Felician University Lodi · 2,427 students 2,427 4.12 50% of the leader · rank #34
35 Stockton University Galloway · 8,631 students 8,631 5.21 64% of the leader · rank #35
36 Rutgers University-Newark Newark · 11,315 students 11,315 5.74 70% of the leader · rank #36
37 Rowan University Glassboro · 21,026 students 21,026 6.61 81% of the leader · rank #37
38 Yeshiva Gedolah Shaarei Shmuel Lakewood · 150 students 150 6.67 81% of the leader · rank #38
39 Centenary University Hackettstown · 1,398 students 1,398 7.15 87% of the leader · rank #39
40 Empire Beauty School-Cherry Hill Cherry Hill · 139 students 139 7.19 88% of the leader · rank #40
41 American Institute-Cherry Hill Cherry Hill · 390 students 390 7.69 94% of the leader · rank #41
42 Princeton University Princeton · 9,137 students 9,137 8.21 100% of the leader · rank #42

Unranked campuses (103): zero score or no normalized rate

103 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 88 stay out of this HTML table so large states stay crawlable.

# Campus EnrollmentIncidents /1k
Adult and Continuing Education-BCTS Hackensack · 117 students 117 0.00
Advantage Career Institute Eatontown · 161 students 161 0.00
American Institute of Medical Sciences & Education Piscataway · 472 students 472 0.00
American Institute-Clifton Clifton · 778 students 778 0.00
American Institute-Somerset Somerset · 364 students 364 0.00
American Institute-Toms River Toms River · 484 students 484 0.00
Artistic Academy of Hair Design Morris Plains · 88 students 88 0.00
ASI Career Institute Turnersville · 62 students 62 0.00
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Teterboro Hasbrouck Heights · 695 students 695 0.00
Bais Medrash Mayan Hatorah Lakewood · 38 students 38 0.00
Bais Medrash Toras Chesed Lakewood · 132 students 132 0.00
Berkeley College-Woodland Park Woodland Park · 1,996 students 1,996 0.00
Best Care College East Orange · 44 students 44 0.00
Beth Medrash of Asbury Park Lakewood · 124 students 124 0.00
Bloomfield College of Montclair State University Bloomfield · 799 students 799 0.00

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

The largest universities in New Jersey by enrollment

Enrollment leaders: Rutgers University-New Brunswick (52,269); Montclair State University (23,375); Rowan University (21,026), then 142 more. The 15 biggest New Jersey 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 30% of the 412,250 students enrolled across all 145 tracked New Jersey institutions. Mid-pack by size sits near Parisian Beauty School (441 students, 0.00/1k).

3
Rowan University Glassboro · 21,026 students
Enrollment
21,026
Incidents /1k
6.61
4
Kean University Union · 13,905 students
Enrollment
13,905
Incidents /1k
0.79
# Institution EnrollmentIncidents /1k
1 Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick · 52,269 students 52,269 100% of the leader · rank #1 2.24
2 Montclair State University Montclair · 23,375 students 23,375 45% of the leader · rank #2 2.70
3 Rowan University Glassboro · 21,026 students 21,026 40% of the leader · rank #3 6.61
4 Kean University Union · 13,905 students 13,905 27% of the leader · rank #4 0.79
5 New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark · 13,247 students 13,247 25% of the leader · rank #5 0.98
6 Middlesex College Edison · 12,044 students 12,044 23% of the leader · rank #6 0.00
7 Bergen Community College Paramus · 11,720 students 11,720 22% of the leader · rank #7 0.26
8 Rutgers University-Newark Newark · 11,315 students 11,315 22% of the leader · rank #8 5.74
9 William Paterson University of New Jersey Wayne · 9,942 students 9,942 19% of the leader · rank #9 1.81
10 Brookdale Community College Lincroft · 9,900 students 9,900 19% of the leader · rank #10 1.31
11 Beth Medrash Govoha Lakewood · 9,657 students 9,657 18% of the leader · rank #11 0.10
12 Seton Hall University South Orange · 9,571 students 9,571 18% of the leader · rank #12 1.78
13 Princeton University Princeton · 9,137 students 9,137 17% of the leader · rank #13 8.21
14 Stockton University Galloway · 8,631 students 8,631 17% of the leader · rank #14 5.21
15 Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken · 8,469 students 8,469 16% of the leader · rank #15 0.94

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 Jersey: closest on tracked campus count (145 here) and closest on unweighted average 2024 Clery rate (0.69/1k 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: Idaho sits nearest on unweighted campus average (+0.08/1k). Inside New Jersey, open Beth Medrash Govoha's campus sheet next.

Beth Medrash Govoha profile → | All states → | New Jersey net price → | Incident tool → | Methodology →

New Jersey campus safety FAQ

What are the safest colleges in New Jersey?

Among New Jersey campuses that reported at least one 2024 Criminal Offense or VAWA incident in the Clery categories used here, Beth Medrash Govoha has the lowest rate (0.10 per 1,000 students). Next among nonzero reporters: UCNJ Union College of Union County, New Jersey (0.12/1k); Camden County College (0.13/1k). 103 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 Jersey?

In New Jersey, campuses with any 2024 Criminal Offenses or VAWA incidents in the score categories are ordered by incidents per 1,000 students - Beth Medrash Govoha currently leads that nonzero list at 0.10/1k. Zero-report and unscored campuses stay unranked and alphabetical. See /methodology for the full rate definition.

How many colleges in New Jersey are compared?

This page covers 145 tracked higher-education institutions in New Jersey, serving about 412,250 enrolled students combined across 83 cities. 42 carry a ranked nonzero rate; 103 are listed without a safety ordinal. By enrollment the largest are Rutgers University-New Brunswick (52,269); Montclair State University (23,375); Rowan University (21,026). Nearby state averages for context: Idaho (0.77/1k); Florida (0.78/1k); Arizona (0.58/1k); Guam (0.58/1k); Nevada (0.82/1k); Utah (0.91/1k).

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.