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 21
2 Glendale Community College Glendale 99 A 177
3 Long Beach City College Long Beach 98 A 328
4 University of Texas at Dallas Richardson 97 A 628
5 University of Dallas Irving 96 A 957
6 University of Michigan-Dearborn Dearborn 95 A 562
7 California State University, Long Beach Long Beach 95 A 806
8 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee 94 A 2293
9 Harvard University Cambridge 93 A 1461
10 California State University, Los Angeles Los Angeles 92 A 959
11 California State University, Sacramento Sacramento 91 A 1455
12 Queensborough Community College Bayside 90 A 1722
13 American University Washington 89 A 1926
14 Santa Monica College Santa Monica 88 A 1684
15 University of California, San Diego La Jolla 87 A 2050
16 Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles 86 A 2053
17 Washington University in St. Louis Saint Louis 86 A 1877
18 Southern Methodist University Dallas 85 A 3938
19 University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles 84 A 2513
20 Wake Technical Community College Raleigh 83 A 2930
21 San Diego Mesa College San Diego 82 A 2868
22 California State University, Northridge Los Angeles 81 A 2691
23 University of Washington Seattle 80 A 6689
24 Marquette University Milwaukee 79 B 6886
25 Wichita State University Wichita 78 B 4127
26 University of Denver Denver 77 B 3268
27 Kingsborough Community College Brooklyn 77 B 3337
28 San Francisco State University San Francisco 76 B 4289
29 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley 75 B 3495
30 Georgetown University Washington 74 B 3876
31 San Diego State University San Diego 73 B 3904
32 North Carolina State University Raleigh 72 B 3762
33 University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte 71 B 5422
34 Los Angeles Pierce College Woodland Hills 70 B 4548
35 Loyola University Maryland Baltimore 69 B 4385
36 City College of San Francisco San Francisco 68 B 6666
37 University of Cincinnati Cincinnati 68 B 7319
38 Wayne State University Detroit 67 B 5285
39 Morgan State University Baltimore 66 B 4726
40 University of San Diego San Diego 65 B 7042
41 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh 64 B 7360
42 The Catholic University of America Washington 63 B 6735
43 Ohio State University Columbus 62 B 7435
44 Case Western Reserve University Cleveland 61 B 7305
45 Cleveland State University Cleveland 60 B 8244
46 University of Massachusetts - Boston Boston 59 C 10872
47 Berkeley City College Berkeley 59 C 7919
48 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh 58 C 8555
49 Boston University Boston 57 C 11096
50 Queens College Queens 56 C 8336
51 Bunker Hill Community College Boston 55 C 11811
52 Loyola University Chicago Chicago 54 C 7070
53 Columbus State Community College Columbus 53 C 9696
54 Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken 52 C 9569
55 Johns Hopkins University Baltimore 51 C 7458
56 Central Piedmont Community College Charlotte 50 C 11268
57 Dallas College Dallas 50 C 15172
58 LaGuardia Community College Long Island City 49 C 10496
59 George Washington University Washington 48 C 10843
60 Seattle University Seattle 47 C 25092
61 Seattle Central College Seattle 46 C 25953
62 St. John's University Queens 45 C 11353
63 Vanderbilt University Nashville 44 C 14353
64 Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago 43 C 9665
65 University of Minnesota Minneapolis 42 C 11355
66 Laney College Oakland 41 C 11726
67 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge 41 C 18320
68 Brooklyn College Brooklyn 40 C 14706
69 DePaul University Chicago 39 D 13018
70 University of San Francisco San Francisco 38 D 18497
71 University of Nevada, Las Vegas Las Vegas 37 D 13700
72 University of Southern California Los Angeles 36 D 13920
73 Suffolk University Boston 35 D 24224
74 University of Maryland, Baltimore Baltimore 34 D 13253
75 Howard University Washington 33 D 17782
76 Saint Joseph's University Philadelphia 32 D 15871
77 Berklee College of Music Boston 32 D 26901
78 Emerson College Boston 31 D 27397
79 Long Island University Brooklyn 30 D 21449
80 University of Baltimore Baltimore 29 D 15329
81 University of Chicago Chicago 28 D 15523
82 University of Colorado Denver Denver 27 D 20532
83 Borough of Manhattan Community College New York 26 D 21439
84 Northeastern University Boston 25 D 28953
85 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia 24 D 18801
86 Pace University New York 23 D 23555
87 Monroe College Bronx 23 D 22021
88 University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago 22 D 20031
89 Drexel University Philadelphia 21 D 21069
90 Columbia University New York 20 D 24728
91 Pratt Institute New York 19 D 26191
92 Columbia College Chicago Chicago 18 D 21567
93 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago 17 D 21659
94 Harold Washington College Chicago 16 D 21712
95 New York Institute of Technology New York 15 D 28352
96 Lehman College Bronx 14 D 26621
97 Community College of Philadelphia Philadelphia 14 D 24860
98 Temple University Philadelphia 13 D 24217
99 Hunter College New York 12 D 30661
100 Yeshiva University New York 11 D 29527
101 The City College of New York New York 10 D 30556
102 New York University New York 9 D 33290
103 Fordham University New York 8 D 31908
104 Fashion Institute of Technology New York 7 D 35280
105 City University of New York New York 6 D 35272
106 Bronx Community College Bronx 5 D 34458
107 Academy of Art University San Francisco 5 D 47375
108 The New School, New York City and Paris New York 4 D 37058
109 Parsons School of Design New York 3 D 37601
110 School of Visual Arts New York 2 D 40000
111 Baruch College New York 1 D 40036
112 California College of the Arts San Francisco 0 D 52369

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

Canadian University Safety Rankings 2026