US University Safety Rankings 2026

Universities are ranked in two separate pools by data type: point-level police records within 3 km of campus, and area-level official counts where no point-level data is published. The two pools use different methodologies and are never mixed. Area-level scores use a fixed absolute scale per data source (red = above twice that source's typical area rate), so they are not comparable across sources or countries. How scores work →

Point-level data rankings

Ranked by weighted crime density within 3 km of campus (12 months of official records).

# University City Score Grade Records (12 mo)
1 ArtCenter College of Design Pasadena 100 A 25
2 Glendale Community College Glendale 99 A 187
3 Long Beach City College Long Beach 98 A 304
4 University of Texas at Dallas Richardson 97 A 673
5 University of Dallas Irving 96 A 969
6 University of Michigan-Dearborn Dearborn 95 A 693
7 California State University, Long Beach Long Beach 95 A 750
8 California State University, Los Angeles Los Angeles 94 A 892
9 Harvard University Cambridge 93 A 1550
10 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee 92 A 2546
11 California State University, Sacramento Sacramento 91 A 1634
12 American University Washington 90 A 1986
13 University of California, San Diego La Jolla 89 A 2116
14 Santa Monica College Santa Monica 88 A 1855
15 Queensborough Community College Bayside 87 A 2206
16 Washington University in St. Louis Saint Louis 86 A 1995
17 Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles 85 A 2312
18 Southern Methodist University Dallas 85 A 4125
19 Wake Technical Community College Raleigh 84 A 3044
20 University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles 83 A 2737
21 San Diego Mesa College San Diego 82 A 2982
22 University of Washington Seattle 81 A 6955
23 California State University, Northridge Los Angeles 80 A 3021
24 Marquette University Milwaukee 79 B 7620
25 University of Denver Denver 78 B 3482
26 Georgetown University Washington 77 B 3849
27 San Francisco State University San Francisco 76 B 4550
28 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley 75 B 3697
29 San Diego State University San Diego 75 B 3936
30 North Carolina State University Raleigh 74 B 3775
31 Kingsborough Community College Brooklyn 73 B 4236
32 University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte 72 B 5624
33 Los Angeles Pierce College Woodland Hills 71 B 5077
34 City College of San Francisco San Francisco 70 B 7044
35 University of San Diego San Diego 69 B 7091
36 Loyola University Maryland Baltimore 68 B 5311
37 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh 67 B 7136
38 University of Cincinnati Cincinnati 66 B 8281
39 The Catholic University of America Washington 65 B 6542
40 Ohio State University Columbus 65 B 7693
41 Wayne State University Detroit 64 B 6524
42 Morgan State University Baltimore 63 B 5792
43 Case Western Reserve University Cleveland 62 B 7384
44 Cleveland State University Cleveland 61 B 8279
45 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh 60 B 8411
46 Berkeley City College Berkeley 59 C 8198
47 University of Massachusetts - Boston Boston 58 C 11709
48 Boston University Boston 57 C 11834
49 Columbus State Community College Columbus 56 C 10013
50 Bunker Hill Community College Boston 55 C 12518
51 Loyola University Chicago Chicago 55 C 7921
52 Central Piedmont Community College Charlotte 54 C 11661
53 George Washington University Washington 53 C 10765
54 Queens College Queens 52 C 10522
55 Dallas College Dallas 51 C 16074
56 Johns Hopkins University Baltimore 50 C 8962
57 Seattle University Seattle 49 C 26128
58 Seattle Central College Seattle 48 C 27006
59 Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken 47 C 12636
60 LaGuardia Community College Long Island City 46 C 13497
61 Vanderbilt University Nashville 45 C 15950
62 Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago 45 C 10782
63 University of Minnesota Minneapolis 44 C 12041
64 St. John's University Queens 43 C 14263
65 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge 42 C 19506
66 Laney College Oakland 41 C 13300
67 University of San Francisco San Francisco 40 C 19276
68 University of Nevada, Las Vegas Las Vegas 39 D 14435
69 DePaul University Chicago 38 D 14429
70 Howard University Washington 37 D 17443
71 University of Southern California Los Angeles 36 D 15074
72 Brooklyn College Brooklyn 35 D 18683
73 Suffolk University Boston 35 D 25817
74 Berklee College of Music Boston 34 D 28902
75 University of Colorado Denver Denver 33 D 20777
76 Emerson College Boston 32 D 29310
77 Saint Joseph's University Philadelphia 31 D 17610
78 University of Maryland, Baltimore Baltimore 30 D 16075
79 University of Chicago Chicago 29 D 17004
80 Northeastern University Boston 28 D 31067
81 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia 27 D 20631
82 University of Baltimore Baltimore 26 D 18544
83 Long Island University Brooklyn 25 D 27318
84 Drexel University Philadelphia 25 D 22962
85 University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago 24 D 22452
86 Borough of Manhattan Community College New York 23 D 27573
87 Columbia College Chicago Chicago 22 D 24111
88 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago 21 D 24267
89 Harold Washington College Chicago 20 D 24343
90 Monroe College Bronx 19 D 27817
91 Pace University New York 18 D 30262
92 Community College of Philadelphia Philadelphia 17 D 26867
93 Columbia University New York 16 D 31325
94 Pratt Institute New York 15 D 33329
95 Temple University Philadelphia 15 D 26125
96 Lehman College Bronx 14 D 33659
97 New York Institute of Technology New York 13 D 36306
98 Academy of Art University San Francisco 12 D 47999
99 Hunter College New York 11 D 39059
100 Yeshiva University New York 10 D 37350
101 The City College of New York New York 9 D 38659
102 California College of the Arts San Francisco 8 D 52066
103 New York University New York 7 D 42839
104 Fordham University New York 6 D 40389
105 Fashion Institute of Technology New York 5 D 45455
106 City University of New York New York 5 D 45457
107 Bronx Community College Bronx 4 D 43577
108 The New School, New York City and Paris New York 3 D 47640
109 Parsons School of Design New York 2 D 48343
110 School of Visual Arts New York 1 D 51410
111 Baruch College New York 0 D 51413

Area-statistics rankings

Ranked by weighted incidents per 100,000 residents across the whole administrative area (local government area in Australia, census metropolitan area in Canada, police agency jurisdiction in the US, district / Landkreis in Germany, commune in France, ward/city in Tokyo, metropolitan province in South Korea). This is a separate statistical pool — its scores are not comparable with point-level scores.

# University City Score Grade Records (12 mo)
1 Savannah College of Art and Design Savannah 100 A
2 Dartmouth College Hanover 100 A
3 Babson College Wellesley 98 A
4 Villanova University Villanova 97 A
5 Clarkson University Potsdam 96 A
6 University of Rhode Island Kingston 96 A
7 West Valley College Saratoga 95 A
8 College of DuPage Glen Ellyn 91 A
9 Princeton University Princeton 90 A
10 Stony Brook University Stony Brook 90 A
11 University of Massachusetts, Amherst Amherst 88 A
12 Amherst College Amherst 88 A
13 Virginia Polytechnic Institute Blacksburg 88 A
14 Foothill College Los Altos Hills 88 A
15 Boston College Chestnut Hill 87 A
16 Adelphi University Garden City 86 A
17 Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester 84 A
18 University of Notre Dame Notre Dame 82 A
19 Miami University Oxford 82 A
20 Middlesex Community College Bedford 82 A
21 University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu 75 B
22 Michigan Technological University Houghton 75 B
23 University of Miami Coral Gables 73 B
24 University of California, Irvine Irvine 72 B
25 Irvine Valley College Irvine 72 B
26 Auburn University Auburn 72 B
27 Texas A&M University College Station 71 B
28 University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara 71 B
29 Clemson University Clemson 71 B
30 Mount Holyoke College South Hadley 70 B
31 Cascadia College Bothell 68 B
32 Kennesaw State University Kennesaw 68 B
33 De Anza College Cupertino 68 B
34 Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton 68 B
35 Purdue University West Lafayette 67 B
36 Washtenaw Community College Ann Arbor 67 B
37 Kent State University Kent 67 B
38 Washington State University Pullman 67 B
39 Chapman University Orange 66 B
40 Iowa State University Ames 66 B
41 Bentley University Waltham 66 B
42 Brandeis University Waltham 66 B
43 Lehigh University Bethlehem 66 B
44 University of Virginia Charlottesville 65 B
45 Tufts University Medford 65 B
46 Pennsylvania State University University Park 65 B
47 George Mason University Fairfax 65 B
48 Northern Virginia Community College Annandale 65 B
49 Seton Hall University South Orange 65 B
50 Howard Community College Columbia 64 B
51 University of South Florida Tampa 64 B
52 Mt. San Antonio College Walnut 64 B
53 Ohio University Athens 63 B
54 California Institute of the Arts Valencia 63 B
55 Montgomery College Rockville 63 B
56 University of Oklahoma Norman 63 B
57 Kansas State University Manhattan 63 B
58 Collin College Plano 63 B
59 Michigan State University East Lansing 59 C
60 Nassau Community College Garden City 58 C
61 Hofstra University Hempstead 58 C
62 College of San Mateo San Mateo 57 C
63 Oklahoma State University Stillwater 55 C
64 Santa Ana College Santa Ana 51 C
65 Claremont McKenna College Claremont 51 C
66 Pomona College Claremont 51 C
67 Harvey Mudd College Claremont 51 C
68 University of Texas at El Paso El Paso 51 C
69 Colorado State University Fort Collins 51 C
70 University of North Texas Denton 48 C
71 Shoreline Community College Shoreline 48 C
72 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Chapel Hill 48 C
73 Towson University Towson 48 C
74 University of Maryland, Baltimore County Baltimore 48 C
75 Oregon State University Corvallis 47 C
76 California State University, Fullerton Fullerton 47 C
77 University of California, Davis Davis 47 C
78 Miami Dade College Miami 47 C
79 Florida International University Miami 47 C
80 University of Massachusetts Lowell Lowell 47 C
81 Bellevue College Bellevue 46 C
82 University of Iowa Iowa City 46 C
83 Binghamton University Vestal 46 C
84 University of Central Florida Orlando 46 C
85 Valencia College Orlando 46 C
86 Santa Rosa Junior College Santa Rosa 46 C
87 Stanford University Stanford 45 C
88 Highline College Des Moines 44 C
89 University of Maryland, College Park College Park 44 C
90 Mesa Community College Mesa 44 C
91 East Los Angeles College Monterey Park 44 C
92 Oakland Community College Auburn Hills 43 C
93 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor 43 C
94 University of Delaware Newark 43 C
95 Brown University Providence 43 C
96 Rhode Island School of Design Providence 43 C
97 American River College Sacramento 43 C
98 Rutgers University - New Brunswick New Brunswick 42 C
99 Northwestern University Evanston 42 C
100 University of Missouri, Columbia Columbia 41 C
101 University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison 39 D
102 Smith College Northampton 39 D
103 California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Pomona 39 D
104 Pepperdine University Malibu 39 D
105 El Camino College Torrance 39 D
106 University of Kentucky Lexington 39 D
107 New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark 39 D
108 Rutgers University - Newark Newark 39 D
109 Colorado School of Mines Golden 38 D
110 Illinois State University Normal 38 D
111 University of Nebraska - Lincoln Lincoln 37 D
112 Indiana University Bloomington Bloomington 37 D
113 University of Texas at Arlington Arlington 36 D
114 University of Kansas Lawrence 36 D
115 Texas State University San Marcos 35 D
116 Northern Illinois University DeKalb 35 D
117 Baylor University Waco 35 D
118 University of Colorado Boulder Boulder 35 D
119 Missouri University of Science and Technology Rolla 35 D
120 Texas Christian University Fort Worth 35 D
121 Tarrant County College Fort Worth 35 D
122 The University of Georgia Athens 34 D
123 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign 33 D
124 Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester 33 D
125 Santa Clara University Santa Clara 33 D
126 Orange Coast College Costa Mesa 33 D
127 University of Arizona Tucson 33 D
128 California Institute of Technology Pasadena 33 D
129 Pasadena City College Pasadena 33 D
130 Texas Tech University Lubbock 32 D
131 University of Oregon Eugene 32 D
132 Evergreen Valley College San Jose 32 D
133 San Jose City College San Jose 32 D
134 San Jose State University San Jose 32 D
135 University of Arkansas Fayetteville 32 D
136 Glendale Community College (AZ) Glendale 32 D
137 Green River College Auburn 32 D
138 Cornell University Ithaca 32 D
139 University of Nevada, Reno Reno 32 D
140 Phoenix College Phoenix 31 D
141 University of California, Riverside Riverside 31 D
142 Santa Barbara City College Santa Barbara 31 D
143 University of Toledo Toledo 30 D
144 University of Tennessee Knoxville 30 D
145 University of Alabama Tuscaloosa 30 D
146 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy 30 D
147 University of Florida Gainesville 29 D
148 Northern Arizona University Flagstaff 29 D
149 Wake Forest University Winston-Salem 29 D
150 University of Texas at Austin Austin 29 D
151 Austin Community College Austin 29 D
152 Western Michigan University Kalamazoo 28 D
153 Diablo Valley College Pleasant Hill 27 D
154 University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz 26 D
155 Arizona State University Tempe 26 D
156 Chabot College Hayward 25 D
157 Florida State University Tallahassee 25 D
158 University of Rochester Rochester 25 D
159 Yale University New Haven 24 D
160 University of Richmond Richmond 23 D
161 Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond 23 D
162 University of South Carolina Columbia 21 D
163 Duke University Durham 21 D
164 The University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio 21 D
165 Trinity University San Antonio 21 D
166 Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta 21 D
167 Emory University Atlanta 21 D
168 Georgia State University Atlanta 21 D
169 University at Buffalo SUNY Buffalo 20 D
170 University of Alaska Fairbanks Fairbanks 20 D
171 Syracuse University Syracuse 20 D
172 University of Louisville Louisville 20 D
173 Texas Southern University Houston 20 D
174 University of Houston Houston 20 D
175 Houston Community College Houston 20 D
176 Lone Star College System Houston 20 D
177 Rice University Houston 20 D
178 University at Albany SUNY Albany 20 D
179 University of New Mexico Albuquerque 20 D
180 University of Utah Salt Lake City 20 D
181 Edmonds College Lynnwood 20 D
182 Wichita State University Wichita 20 D
183 Portland Community College Portland 20 D
184 Portland State University Portland 20 D
185 Saint Louis University Saint Louis 20 D
186 University of Dayton Dayton 20 D
187 University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham 20 D

Canadian University Safety Rankings 2026