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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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Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University is a public, historically black university in Tallahassee, Florida. Florida A&M had a violent crime rate of 1.272 crimes per 1,000 students between 2011 and 2013. Aggravated assaults made up nearly half of the school’s violent crimes during this period, with a total of 20 in the three years.
Florida A&M employs its own police force with 30 officers, who under Florida law have full arrest authority on campus and adjacent areas. The school also offers free self-protection classes such as the Rape and Aggression Defense class, as well as a student-run walking escort service.
Florida A&M gained public attention after a student was killed during a hazing ritual conducted by the school’s marching band in 2012. This incident is not reflected in the school’s crime statistics because it happened while the band was traveling off campus. The Clery Act only requires institutions to report crimes that happen on or near their campus according to a specific set of criteria.
Fall 2013 Enrollment: 10,743 (8,930 undergraduate)
Average Violent Crime Rate: 1.27 per 1,000 students*
Murder: 0
Forcible Sex Offense: 8
Robbery: 13
Aggravated Assault: 20
Campus Setting: City (Midsize)
*Florida A&M’s average violent crime rate was rounded from 1.272 to 1.27
-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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