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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 UniversityBayamon · 30,794 students
Enrollment
30,794
Incidents /1k
0.06
#CampusEnrollmentIncidents /1k
1NUC UniversityBayamon · 30,794 students30,7940.064% of the leader · rank #1
2Universidad del Sagrado CorazonSanturce · 5,037 students5,0370.204% of the leader · rank #2
3Inter American University of Puerto Rico-San GermanSan German · 3,114 students3,1140.325% of the leader · rank #3
4University of Puerto Rico-BayamonBayamon · 2,851 students2,8510.7012% of the leader · rank #4
5University of Puerto Rico-Rio PiedrasSan Juan · 11,312 students11,3120.7112% of the leader · rank #5
6Inter American University of Puerto Rico-GuayamaGuayama · 2,487 students2,4870.8013% of the leader · rank #6
7Universidad Central de BayamonBayamã³N · 698 students6981.4324% of the leader · rank #7
8University of Puerto Rico-HumacaoHumacao · 2,577 students2,5771.5526% of the leader · rank #8
9Atlantic UniversityGuaynabo · 1,540 students1,5401.9533% of the leader · rank #9
10EDP University of Puerto Rico-ManatiManati · 468 students4682.1436% of the leader · rank #10
11Center for Advanced Studies On Puerto Rico and the CaribbeanSan Juan · 358 students3582.7947% of the leader · rank #11
12University of Puerto Rico at CayeyCayey · 2,093 students2,0932.8748% of the leader · rank #12
13Caribbean University-BayamonBayamon · 957 students9573.1352% of the leader · rank #13
14Ponce Health Sciences University-Centro Universitario de San JuanSanturce · 240 students2404.1770% of the leader · rank #14
15Instituto Tecnologico de Puerto Rico-Recinto de GuayamaGuayama · 216 students2164.6377% of the leader · rank #15
16Instituto Tecnologico de Puerto Rico-Recinto de San JuanSan Juan · 179 students1795.5993% of the leader · rank #16
17University of Puerto Rico-UtuadoUtuado · 334 students3345.99100% 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.

#CampusEnrollmentIncidents /1k
Academia Serrant IncPonce · 156 students1560.00
Advantage Technical CollegeManati · 584 students5840.00
Advantage Technical CollegeSan Juan · 381 students3810.00
Advantage Technical College-AguadillaAguadilla · 263 students2630.00
Albizu University-San JuanSan Juan · 2,504 students2,5040.00
American Educational CollegeBayamon0-
American Technical InstituteBayamon · 11 students110.00
Antilles School of Technical CareersSan Juan · 286 students2860.00
Atenas UniversityManati · 622 students6220.00
Automeca Technical College-AguadillaAguadilla · 246 students2460.00
Automeca Technical College-BayamonBayamon · 482 students4820.00
Automeca Technical College-CaguasCaguas · 186 students1860.00
Automeca Technical College-PoncePonce · 310 students3100.00
Bayamon Community CollegeBayamon · 130 students1300.00
Caribbean Aviation Training Institute IncCarolina · 191 students1910.00

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 UniversityBayamon · 30,794 students
Enrollment
30,794
Incidents /1k
0.06
#InstitutionEnrollmentIncidents /1k
1NUC UniversityBayamon · 30,794 students30,794100% of the leader · rank #10.06
2University of Puerto Rico-Rio PiedrasSan Juan · 11,312 students11,31237% of the leader · rank #20.71
3University of Puerto Rico-MayaguezMayaguez · 10,618 students10,61834% of the leader · rank #30.00
4Universidad Ana G. Mendez-Gurabo CampusGurabo · 9,909 students9,90932% of the leader · rank #40.00
5Universidad Ana G. Mendez-Cupey CampusSan Juan · 6,097 students6,09720% of the leader · rank #50.00
6Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico-PoncePonce · 5,568 students5,56818% of the leader · rank #60.00
7Universidad Ana G. Mendez-Carolina CampusCarolina · 5,185 students5,18517% of the leader · rank #70.00
8Universidad del Sagrado CorazonSanturce · 5,037 students5,03716% of the leader · rank #80.20
9Universidad Politecnica de Puerto RicoHato Rey · 4,223 students4,22314% of the leader · rank #90.00
10Inter American University of Puerto Rico-MetroSan Juan · 4,101 students4,10113% of the leader · rank #100.00
11Inter American University of Puerto Rico-BayamonBayamon · 3,556 students3,55612% of the leader · rank #110.00
12Inter American University of Puerto Rico-AguadillaAguadilla · 3,161 students3,16110% of the leader · rank #120.00
13Inter American University of Puerto Rico-San GermanSan German · 3,114 students3,11410% of the leader · rank #130.32
14Inter American University of Puerto Rico-PonceMercedita · 2,925 students2,9259% of the leader · rank #140.00
15University of Puerto Rico-BayamonBayamon · 2,851 students2,8519% of the leader · rank #150.70

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.