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Safest Colleges in Puerto Rico

Federal Clery Act filings for all 120 tracked Puerto Rico campuses, ranked by 2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 students. Among nonzero reporters, NUC University currently has the lowest rate.

120
Institutions tracked
0.33
Avg campus rate / 1k (118 of 120 scored)
0.23
Statewide rate / 1k
#4
Rank by avg campus rate
170,256
Students enrolled

Among nonzero Clery reporters, NUC University has the lowest rate in Puerto Rico

According to U.S. Department of Education Clery Act filings, across 120 tracked campuses in Puerto Rico, 101 reported zero 2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents used in the rate; among campuses with any in those categories, NUC University has the lowest rate at 0.06 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
120
average campus, per 1,000 (118 of 120 scored)
0.33
lowest nonzero rate - NUC University
0.06
campuses at zero in score categories
101

Data updated August 2026

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Sheet PR · Puerto Rico 0.33/1k campus avg · #4/59

RATE-QUIET · RANK-TOP · BELOW-PEER · ZERO-HEAVY · WT-SMALL-HOT · BOOK-FULL · CONC-MID

  • RATE-QUIET 0.33/1k
  • RANK-TOP #4/59
  • BELOW-PEER Guam · 0.25 back
  • ZERO-HEAVY 86% zero
  • WT-SMALL-HOT Δ +0.10
  • BOOK-FULL 118/120
  • CONC-MID top5 40%

Nearest campus-rate peer: Guam (+0.25/1k)

Puerto Rico sheet RATE-QUIET · RANK-TOP · BELOW-PEER · ZERO-HEAVY · WT-SMALL-HOT · BOOK-FULL · CONC-MID · peer Guam. 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 · BELOW-PEER · ZERO-HEAVY · WT-SMALL-HOT · BOOK-FULL · CONC-MID. Nearest unweighted-rate peer is Guam (+0.25/1k). Among nonzero reporters inside the state, NUC University leads at 0.06/1k. 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 Puerto Rico (101 of 118) reported zero in the 2024 score categories and stay unranked against each other. Among the nonzero reporters, NUC University leads at 0.06/1k, then Universidad del Sagrado Corazon (0.20/1k); Inter American University of Puerto Rico-San German (0.32/1k). A high zero share is a filing pattern, not a proof that campuses are safer.

Campus-rate neighbourhood around Puerto Rico

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

per 1,000 students

What this shows Neighbourhood of scored states around Puerto Rico's 0.33/1k 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 Puerto Rico, ranked by reported rate

Ranked from the lowest 2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA rate upward, counting only the 17 Puerto Rico 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.

1
NUC University Bayamon · 30,794 students
Enrollment
30,794
Incidents /1k
0.06
# Campus EnrollmentIncidents /1k
1 NUC University Bayamon · 30,794 students 30,794 0.06 4% of the leader · rank #1
2 Universidad del Sagrado Corazon Santurce · 5,037 students 5,037 0.20 4% of the leader · rank #2
3 Inter American University of Puerto Rico-San German San German · 3,114 students 3,114 0.32 5% of the leader · rank #3
4 University of Puerto Rico-Bayamon Bayamon · 2,851 students 2,851 0.70 12% of the leader · rank #4
5 University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras San Juan · 11,312 students 11,312 0.71 12% of the leader · rank #5
6 Inter American University of Puerto Rico-Guayama Guayama · 2,487 students 2,487 0.80 13% of the leader · rank #6
7 Universidad Central de Bayamon Bayamã³N · 698 students 698 1.43 24% of the leader · rank #7
8 University of Puerto Rico-Humacao Humacao · 2,577 students 2,577 1.55 26% of the leader · rank #8
9 Atlantic University Guaynabo · 1,540 students 1,540 1.95 33% of the leader · rank #9
10 EDP University of Puerto Rico-Manati Manati · 468 students 468 2.14 36% of the leader · rank #10
11 Center for Advanced Studies On Puerto Rico and the Caribbean San Juan · 358 students 358 2.79 47% of the leader · rank #11
12 University of Puerto Rico at Cayey Cayey · 2,093 students 2,093 2.87 48% of the leader · rank #12
13 Caribbean University-Bayamon Bayamon · 957 students 957 3.13 52% of the leader · rank #13
14 Ponce Health Sciences University-Centro Universitario de San Juan Santurce · 240 students 240 4.17 70% of the leader · rank #14
15 Instituto Tecnologico de Puerto Rico-Recinto de Guayama Guayama · 216 students 216 4.63 77% of the leader · rank #15
16 Instituto Tecnologico de Puerto Rico-Recinto de San Juan San Juan · 179 students 179 5.59 93% of the leader · rank #16
17 University of Puerto Rico-Utuado Utuado · 334 students 334 5.99 100% of the leader · rank #17

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

101 filed zero 2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents in the score categories; other Clery tables can still contain reports. 2 lack a normalized rate because no positive enrollment denominator is available. 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
Academia Serrant Inc Ponce · 156 students 156 0.00
Advantage Technical College Manati · 584 students 584 0.00
Advantage Technical College San Juan · 381 students 381 0.00
Advantage Technical College-Aguadilla Aguadilla · 263 students 263 0.00
Albizu University-San Juan San Juan · 2,504 students 2,504 0.00
American Educational College Bayamon 0 -
American Technical Institute Bayamon · 11 students 11 0.00
Antilles School of Technical Careers San Juan · 286 students 286 0.00
Atenas University Manati · 622 students 622 0.00
Automeca Technical College-Aguadilla Aguadilla · 246 students 246 0.00
Automeca Technical College-Bayamon Bayamon · 482 students 482 0.00
Automeca Technical College-Caguas Caguas · 186 students 186 0.00
Automeca Technical College-Ponce Ponce · 310 students 310 0.00
Bayamon Community College Bayamon · 130 students 130 0.00
Caribbean Aviation Training Institute Inc Carolina · 191 students 191 0.00

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

The largest universities in Puerto Rico by enrollment

Enrollment leaders: NUC University (30,794); University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras (11,312); University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez (10,618), then 115 more. The 15 biggest Puerto Rico 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 40% of the 170,256 students enrolled across all 118 tracked Puerto Rico institutions. Mid-pack by size sits near EDP University of Puerto Rico-Villalba (379 students, 0.00/1k).

1
NUC University Bayamon · 30,794 students
Enrollment
30,794
Incidents /1k
0.06
# Institution EnrollmentIncidents /1k
1 NUC University Bayamon · 30,794 students 30,794 100% of the leader · rank #1 0.06
2 University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras San Juan · 11,312 students 11,312 37% of the leader · rank #2 0.71
3 University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Mayaguez · 10,618 students 10,618 34% of the leader · rank #3 0.00
4 Universidad Ana G. Mendez-Gurabo Campus Gurabo · 9,909 students 9,909 32% of the leader · rank #4 0.00
5 Universidad Ana G. Mendez-Cupey Campus San Juan · 6,097 students 6,097 20% of the leader · rank #5 0.00
6 Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico-Ponce Ponce · 5,568 students 5,568 18% of the leader · rank #6 0.00
7 Universidad Ana G. Mendez-Carolina Campus Carolina · 5,185 students 5,185 17% of the leader · rank #7 0.00
8 Universidad del Sagrado Corazon Santurce · 5,037 students 5,037 16% of the leader · rank #8 0.20
9 Universidad Politecnica de Puerto Rico Hato Rey · 4,223 students 4,223 14% of the leader · rank #9 0.00
10 Inter American University of Puerto Rico-Metro San Juan · 4,101 students 4,101 13% of the leader · rank #10 0.00
11 Inter American University of Puerto Rico-Bayamon Bayamon · 3,556 students 3,556 12% of the leader · rank #11 0.00
12 Inter American University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla Aguadilla · 3,161 students 3,161 10% of the leader · rank #12 0.00
13 Inter American University of Puerto Rico-San German San German · 3,114 students 3,114 10% of the leader · rank #13 0.32
14 Inter American University of Puerto Rico-Ponce Mercedita · 2,925 students 2,925 9% of the leader · rank #14 0.00
15 University of Puerto Rico-Bayamon Bayamon · 2,851 students 2,851 9% of the leader · rank #15 0.70

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 Puerto Rico: closest on tracked campus count (120 here) and closest on unweighted average 2024 Clery rate (0.33/1k 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: Guam sits nearest on unweighted campus average (+0.25/1k). Inside Puerto Rico, open NUC University's campus sheet next.

NUC University profile → | All states → | Incident tool → | Methodology →

Puerto Rico campus safety FAQ

What are the safest colleges in Puerto Rico?

Among Puerto Rico campuses that reported at least one 2024 Criminal Offense or VAWA incident in the Clery categories used here, NUC University has the lowest rate (0.06 per 1,000 students). Next among nonzero reporters: Universidad del Sagrado Corazon (0.20/1k); Inter American University of Puerto Rico-San German (0.32/1k). 101 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 Puerto Rico?

In Puerto Rico, campuses with any 2024 Criminal Offenses or VAWA incidents in the score categories are ordered by incidents per 1,000 students - NUC University currently leads that nonzero list at 0.06/1k. Zero-report and unscored campuses stay unranked and alphabetical. See /methodology for the full rate definition.

How many colleges in Puerto Rico are compared?

This page covers 120 tracked higher-education institutions in Puerto Rico, serving about 170,256 enrolled students combined across 31 cities. 17 carry a ranked nonzero rate; 103 are listed without a safety ordinal. By enrollment the largest are NUC University (30,794); University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras (11,312); University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez (10,618). Nearby state averages for context: Guam (0.58/1k); Arizona (0.58/1k); Marshall Islands (0.00/1k); Northern Mariana Islands (0.00/1k); Palau (0.00/1k); New Jersey (0.69/1k).

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.