Posted on 01/26/2011 12:41:18 PM PST by SeekAndFind
When it comes to choosing a college, there are a lot of factors to weigh: athletics, social scene, and of course safety. From a parent's point of view, the safety comes high on the list.
Using data from the FBI's Crime in the United States reports, specifically for crimes on university and college campuses, we compiled a ranking of the most dangerous colleges campuses in the country.
Certain elite colleges make the list, including MIT, Duke and Amherst -- a reminder that quality of students bears little on the neighbood.
Methodology: We used FBI data from 2005 to 2009. Schools were ranked by violent crime rate and property crime rate (weighted 4:1). Violent crimes include murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft and arson. See last slide for further discussion.
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Wow. The thing that jumped out at me was there were no West Coast schools and only 1 west of the Mississippi (Texas). Wonder why that is especially with USC in a pretty bad LA neighborhood.
Good to see the UofWashington not on the list as my son is starting there this fall on a baseball scholarship.
Well - I am so happy for that - I will have 2 there next year (Lord willing)..... I was surprised that Ga. Tech was not on that list. Every week (it seems) there is a report of a Tech student being robbed, car-jacked, etc. They seem to have a very hard time keeping crime at bay in the heart of Atlanta. I see several other Atlanta colleges did make it though :(
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I’m surprised Temple (Philadumpia) wasn’t on the list. That’s in a tough neighborhood.
Probably the University of Memphis was left out because the researcher that was sent there was killed.
Isn’t USC in a dangerous part of Los Angeles?
How is MIT on the list and not Harvard? They are fewer than 2 miles apart, down Mass. Avenue in Cambridge. Having spent some time traversing at night between them, I would have been grateful to be in possession (back then) of even one of the firearms I own now.
Harvard grads wait until they graduate and get into government to become crooks.
TSU Nashville has to be on there..
Jackson State too..
Tulane-——Loyola New Orleans?
Rutgers?
upon reflection this is a BS survey
Truer words have rarely been spoken. ;-). I myself decided to get a real job, which I have regretted only in those rare moments when esurience overwhelms character.
That is entirely true, but their professors are half-wits, so I believe that cancels it out.
They must be calculating on a per-student basis because most of these are small schools. I would have expected Univ. of Pittsburgh to be on the list - the campus is integrated with the city, you can pass through and not even know you are on a college campus, and it’s right next to some rough areas. Crimes on campus were common when I was there - you didn’t want to walk around alone.
I’m assuming Durham is kind of dark?
Slippery Rock State didn’t make it?
My wife and I went to high school at NCSSM, which is a stone’s throw from the Dook campus. Our first weekend at school, my wife went out with three or four friends to the local mall. On their return trip, approximately 9 PM or so, they were mugged at gunpoint. The same mugger hit other groups that weekend, and mugged 13 students in total. He was shortly caught, tried, and convicted. Last I knew, he got out on parole about ten years ago.
Of course, NCSSM rarely mentions safety in any of their publicity, but one visit confirms both NCSSM and Dook are in a slum.
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