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Crime
Campus Crime 2015: Top 10 Highest Reported Crime Rates for Mid-Sized Colleges
Student safety is a high priority for all colleges and universities. While colleges and universities are typically safer than the areas that surround them, many schools face important and unique challenges. Law Street's Campus Crime Rankings were created to serve as a comprehensive look at the safety of our college campuses, and to act as a resource for students, families, and college communities.
Federal law requires all postsecondary institutions that receive federal financial aid to report and monitor criminal offenses on their campuses. Each year this self-reported data is published by the Department of Education to help colleges and their communities understand the safety challenges that they face. Law Street Campus Crime Rankings utilize the most recent three years of this data to determine the average violent crime rate per 1,000 students for each school with available statistics.
Our rankings break up schools into different categories to ensure that the comparisons are as helpful and fair as possible. This list ranks mid-sized schools, which include four-year institutions with enrollments between 10,000 to 20,000 students.
Click here to see the data used to create these rankings.
Check out the Top 10 Highest Crime Rates on Mid-Sized Campuses below:
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Yale University is a private university located in New Haven, Connecticut. The surrounding area of New Haven is the most dangerous city in Connecticut, and ranked in Law Street’s Top 10 Most Dangerous Small Cities.
In 2013, Yale was fined for not accurately reporting its sex offense statistics in the early 2000s. Amid scrutiny, Yale continued earlier efforts to refine its sexual assault policies, including the creation of an advisory committee that offered advice on how sexual harassment could be more effectively combated. The university faced additional criticism the same year after the publication of its semi-annual sexual assault report, which revealed that none of the six students found guilty of “nonconsensual sex” were expelled. Instead, they were given lesser punishments such as a two-term suspension, probation, written reprimand, and gender sensitivity training. This criticism prompted the school to reiterate its commitment to preventing sexual assault. The university released a follow-up statement defining its policy on sexual misconduct in response to criticism from the first report. In a later report, Yale indicated that it expelled two students for sexual assault in 2014.
Yale provides its students with a number of resources for reporting and dealing with sexual assault. The school has a large department of public safety with a Police Department of 87 sworn officers as well as a 150-person security force.
Fall 2013 Enrollment: 12,109 (5,430 undergraduates)
Average Violent Crime Rate: 1.82 per 1000 students
Murder: 0
Forcible Sex Offense: 46
Robbery: 12
Aggravated Assault: 8
Campus Setting: City (Midsize)
-Campus crime statistics are three year totals from 2011, 2012, and 2013
-The average violent crime rate is an average of the three-year data shown as a rate per 1,000 students
Click here to see the methodology used for the rankings.
Research and analysis done by Law Street’s Crime in America team:
Kevin Rizzo, Kwame Apea, Jennie Burger, Alissa Gutierrez, and Maurin Mwombela.
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