Which schools have the worst on-campus crime records? The answer might surprise you. The Daily Beast rounded up top 50 most dangerous college campuses, based on the number of criminal incidents from the past three years.
Here’s the top 10:
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Crimes:
- 1 murder
- 36 forcible rapes
- 100 robberies
- 119 aggravated assaults
- 174 burglaries
- 49 car thefts
- 1 arson
2. University of Maryland-Baltimore
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Crimes:
- 6 forcible rapes
- 36 robberies
- 57 assaults
- 67 burglaries
- 43 car thefts
- 3 incidents of arson
3. Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Crimes:
- 1 murder
- 128 forcible rapes
- 151 robberies
- 170 aggravated assaults
- 909 burglaries
- 157 car thefts
- 1 arson
4. Rutger University, Newark
Location: Newark, New Jersey
Crimes:
- 1 murder
- 28 forcible rapes
- 42 robberies
- 24 aggravated assaults
- 387 burglaries
- 95 car thefts
- 19 incidents of arson
5. University of Hartford
Location: West Hartford, Connecticut
Crimes:
- 16 forcible rapes
- 36 robberies
- 21 aggravated assaults
- 221 burglaries
- 56 car thefts
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Crimes:
- 2 forcible rapes
- 55 robberies
- 20 aggravated assaults
- 17 burglaries
- 47 car thefts
- 2 incidents arson
7. Howard University
Location: Washington, DC
Crimes:
- 7 forcible rapes
- 27 aggravated assaults
- 90 robberies
- 160 burglaries
- 43 car thefts
8. North Carolina Central University
Location: Durham, North Carolina
Crimes:
- 1 murder
- 7 forcible rapes
- 42 robberies
- 32 aggravated assaults
- 172 burglaries
- 49 car thefts
9. Norfolk State University
Location: Norfolk, Virginia
Crimes:
- 1 murder
- 6 forcible rapes
- 23 robberies
- 11 aggravated assaults
- 151 burglaries
- 21 car thefts
- 12 incidents of arson
10. Morgan State University
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Crimes:
- 1 murder
- 49 robberies
- 13 aggravated assaults
- 133 burglaries
- 13 car thefts
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posted on September 17th, 2010
by Margaret,
Tags: crime, Murders, worst colleges
Posted in Colleges | 3 Comments »
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September 20th, 2010 at 7:53 am
Another rating system gets its the data analysis wrong. Harvard is number one! But seriously this is terrible disturbing report.