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Safest Colleges in Nevada

Federal Clery Act filings for all 35 tracked Nevada campuses, ranked by 2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 students. Among nonzero reporters, Truckee Meadows Community College currently has the lowest rate.

35
Institutions tracked
0.82
Avg campus rate / 1k (35 of 35 scored)
1.88
Statewide rate / 1k
#10
Rank by avg campus rate
125,295
Students enrolled

Among nonzero Clery reporters, Truckee Meadows Community College has the lowest rate in Nevada

According to U.S. Department of Education Clery Act filings, across 35 tracked campuses in Nevada, 25 reported zero 2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents used in the rate; among campuses with any in those categories, Truckee Meadows Community College has the lowest rate at 0.28 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
35
average campus, per 1,000 (35 of 35 scored)
0.82
lowest nonzero rate - Truckee Meadows Community
0.28
campuses at zero in score categories
25

Data updated August 2026

Clery Act plate

Sheet NV · Nevada 0.82/1k campus avg · #10/59

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

  • RATE-QUIET 0.82/1k
  • RANK-TOP #10/59
  • PHOTO-FINISH Florida · ±0.04
  • ZERO-HEAVY 71% zero
  • WT-LARGE-HOT Δ −1.06
  • BOOK-FULL 35/35
  • CONC-HEAVY top5 82%

Nearest campus-rate peer: Florida (-0.04/1k)

Nevada sheet RATE-QUIET · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · ZERO-HEAVY · WT-LARGE-HOT · BOOK-FULL · CONC-HEAVY · peer Florida. 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-HEAVY. Nearest unweighted-rate peer is Florida (-0.04/1k). Among nonzero reporters inside the state, Truckee Meadows Community College leads at 0.28/1k. 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 Nevada (25 of 35) reported zero in the 2024 score categories and stay unranked against each other. Among the nonzero reporters, Truckee Meadows Community College leads at 0.28/1k, then College of Southern Nevada (0.35/1k); Northwest Career College (1.02/1k). A high zero share is a filing pattern, not a proof that campuses are safer.

Campus-rate neighbourhood around Nevada

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

per 1,000 students

What this shows Neighbourhood of scored states around Nevada's 0.82/1k 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 Nevada, ranked by reported rate

Ranked from the lowest 2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA rate upward, counting only the 10 Nevada 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.

# Campus EnrollmentIncidents /1k
1 Truckee Meadows Community College Reno · 10,885 students 10,885 0.28 4% of the leader · rank #1
2 College of Southern Nevada Las Vegas · 28,313 students 28,313 0.35 4% of the leader · rank #2
3 Northwest Career College Las Vegas · 2,937 students 2,937 1.02 10% of the leader · rank #3
4 Nevada State University Henderson · 7,549 students 7,549 1.19 12% of the leader · rank #4
5 Touro University Nevada Henderson · 1,600 students 1,600 1.25 13% of the leader · rank #5
6 Roseman University of Health Sciences Henderson · 1,367 students 1,367 1.46 15% of the leader · rank #6
7 University of Nevada-Las Vegas Las Vegas · 32,911 students 32,911 3.16 32% of the leader · rank #7
8 University of Nevada-Reno Reno · 23,024 students 23,024 4.34 44% of the leader · rank #8
9 Milan Institute-Sparks Sparks · 171 students 171 5.85 60% of the leader · rank #9
10 Paul Mitchell the School-Las Vegas Las Vegas · 204 students 204 9.80 100% of the leader · rank #10

Unranked campuses (25): zero score or no normalized rate

25 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 10 stay out of this HTML table so large states stay crawlable.

# Campus EnrollmentIncidents /1k
Academy of Hair Design-Las Vegas Las Vegas · 183 students 183 0.00
Advanced Training Institute Las Vegas · 605 students 605 0.00
Arizona College of Nursing-Las Vegas Las Vegas · 1,222 students 1,222 0.00
Avalon Institute-Las Vegas Las Vegas · 304 students 304 0.00
Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Las Vegas Las Vegas · 429 students 429 0.00
Carrington College-Las Vegas Las Vegas · 396 students 396 0.00
Carrington College-Reno Reno · 551 students 551 0.00
Casal Institute of Nevada Las Vegas · 271 students 271 0.00
Chamberlain University-Nevada Las Vegas · 652 students 652 0.00
DeVry University-Nevada Henderson · 1 students 1 0.00
Galen Health Institutes-Las Vegas Las Vegas · 293 students 293 0.00
Great Basin College Elko · 3,320 students 3,320 0.00
International Academy of Style Reno · 89 students 89 0.00
L Makeup Institute Las Vegas · 73 students 73 0.00
Las Vegas College Las Vegas · 536 students 536 0.00

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

The largest universities in Nevada by enrollment

Enrollment leaders: University of Nevada-Las Vegas (32,911); College of Southern Nevada (28,313); University of Nevada-Reno (23,024), then 32 more. The 15 biggest Nevada 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 82% of the 125,295 students enrolled across all 35 tracked Nevada institutions. Mid-pack by size sits near Nevada Career Institute (461 students, 0.00/1k).

# Institution EnrollmentIncidents /1k
1 University of Nevada-Las Vegas Las Vegas · 32,911 students 32,911 100% of the leader · rank #1 3.16
2 College of Southern Nevada Las Vegas · 28,313 students 28,313 86% of the leader · rank #2 0.35
3 University of Nevada-Reno Reno · 23,024 students 23,024 70% of the leader · rank #3 4.34
4 Truckee Meadows Community College Reno · 10,885 students 10,885 33% of the leader · rank #4 0.28
5 Nevada State University Henderson · 7,549 students 7,549 23% of the leader · rank #5 1.19
6 Western Nevada College Carson City · 4,284 students 4,284 13% of the leader · rank #6 0.00
7 Great Basin College Elko · 3,320 students 3,320 10% of the leader · rank #7 0.00
8 Northwest Career College Las Vegas · 2,937 students 2,937 9% of the leader · rank #8 1.02
9 Touro University Nevada Henderson · 1,600 students 1,600 5% of the leader · rank #9 1.25
10 Roseman University of Health Sciences Henderson · 1,367 students 1,367 4% of the leader · rank #10 1.46
11 Arizona College of Nursing-Las Vegas Las Vegas · 1,222 students 1,222 4% of the leader · rank #11 0.00
12 United Education Institute-Las Vegas Las Vegas · 855 students 855 4% of the leader · rank #12 0.00
13 Pima Medical Institute-Las Vegas Las Vegas · 678 students 678 4% of the leader · rank #13 0.00
14 Chamberlain University-Nevada Las Vegas · 652 students 652 4% of the leader · rank #14 0.00
15 Advanced Training Institute Las Vegas · 605 students 605 4% of the leader · rank #15 0.00

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 Nevada: closest on tracked campus count (35 here) and closest on unweighted average 2024 Clery rate (0.82/1k 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: Florida sits nearest on unweighted campus average (-0.04/1k). Inside Nevada, open Truckee Meadows Community College's campus sheet next.

Truckee Meadows Community College profile → | All states → | Nevada net price → | Incident tool → | Methodology →

Nevada campus safety FAQ

What are the safest colleges in Nevada?

Among Nevada campuses that reported at least one 2024 Criminal Offense or VAWA incident in the Clery categories used here, Truckee Meadows Community College has the lowest rate (0.28 per 1,000 students). Next among nonzero reporters: College of Southern Nevada (0.35/1k); Northwest Career College (1.02/1k). 25 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 Nevada?

In Nevada, campuses with any 2024 Criminal Offenses or VAWA incidents in the score categories are ordered by incidents per 1,000 students - Truckee Meadows Community College currently leads that nonzero list at 0.28/1k. Zero-report and unscored campuses stay unranked and alphabetical. See /methodology for the full rate definition.

How many colleges in Nevada are compared?

This page covers 35 tracked higher-education institutions in Nevada, serving about 125,295 enrolled students combined across 6 cities. 10 carry a ranked nonzero rate; 25 are listed without a safety ordinal. By enrollment the largest are University of Nevada-Las Vegas (32,911); College of Southern Nevada (28,313); University of Nevada-Reno (23,024). Nearby state averages for context: Florida (0.78/1k); Idaho (0.77/1k); Utah (0.91/1k); New Jersey (0.69/1k); Arizona (0.58/1k); Guam (0.58/1k).

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.