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Crime
Campus Crime 2015: Top 10 Highest Reported Crime Rates for Small 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 small schools, which include four-year institutions with enrollments between 1,500 to 10,000 students.
Click here to see the data used to create these rankings.
Check out the Top 10 Highest Crime Rates on Small Campuses below:
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The Art Institute of Atlanta is a private, for-profit college located in Atlanta, Georgia. The school saw 50 robberies from 2011 to 2013, making up 70 percent of its reported violent crimes. The Art Institute of Atlanta’s security policies and procedures are identical to those at the #7 Art Institute of Pittsburgh because of their affiliation as a branch of The Art Institutes. In addition to local law enforcement agencies, which have jurisdiction on campus, the school employs unarmed security personnel to assist students, faculty, and staff on campus. Unarmed security personnel are not eligible to make arrests, but are instructed to immediately contact Sandy Springs Police Department–which has jurisdiction over the campus–or the Dean of Student Affairs if any illegal activity occurs.
Fall 2013 Enrollment: 3,078 (all undergraduate)
Average Violent Crime Rate: 7.69 per 1,000 students
Murder: 0
Forcible Sex Offense: 2
Robbery: 50
Aggravated Assault: 19
Campus Setting: City (Small)
-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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