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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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Washington University in St. Louis is a private university located in St. Louis, Missouri. The majority of the school’s violent crime comes from forcible sexual assault cases with 44 between 2011 and 2013, making up nearly 80 percent of its total violent crime.
Washington University offers several resources for victims of sexual assault through its Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention (RSVP) Center. The university also announced this year that it will take part in an upcoming survey about sexual assault. The anonymous survey will ask students questions about sexual assault and their perception of the issue on campus. The Washington University Police Department provides law enforcement services 24/7 through patrolling the campus by foot, bicycle, and car. The department has a total staff of 52, including 28 deputized police officers who have been trained to meet county and state policing requirements. The deputies are armed and authorized to make arrests and investigate criminal and non-criminal incidents.
Fall 2013 Enrollment: 14,032 (7,336 undergraduate)
Violent Crime Rate: 1.3303 per 1,000 students*
Murder: 0
Forcible Sex Offense: 44
Robbery: 8
Aggravated Assault: 4
Campus Setting: Suburb (Large)
*Washington University’s average violent crime rate was rounded from 1.3303 to 1.33
-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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