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Crime
Campus Crime 2015: Top 10 Highest Reported Crime Rates for Large 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 large schools, which include four-year institutions with enrollments greater than 20,000 students.
Click here to see the data used to create these rankings.
Check out the Top 10 Highest Crime Rates on Large Campuses below.
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Illinois State University, founded in 1857, is the oldest public university in Illinois. More than 70 percent of the reported violent crimes at Illinois State were aggravated assaults, with 53 between 2011 and 2013. Reported assaults decreased during the most recent three-year period with available data. In 2011, the university had 30 aggravated assaults, but in 2013 that number fell to five.
Services such as the Redbird Care Team, which proactively seeks to prevent crime and dangerous behavior, and the Sexual Assault Prevention and Survivor Services program help promote awareness and make a range of resources available to students. The university works to ensure that all faculty and staff are properly trained to report incidents of crime. The Illinois State University Police Department consists of approximately 25 sworn officers who have full arrest authority under state law. ISU also has about 250 surveillance cameras. According to the university’s police chief, Aaron Woodruff, ISU police use the digital footage at least once a week to resolve crimes.
Fall 2013 Enrollment: 20,272 (17,749 Undergraduate)
Average Violent Crime Rate: 1.22 per 1,000 students
Murder: 0
Forcible Sex Offense: 13
Robbery: 8
Aggravated Assault: 53
Campus Setting: Suburb (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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