This California university ranked as the one of the most dangerous in the country
The study sourced information sourced from the The Forbes list for top colleges and National Center for Educational Statistics to find out which colleges had the most reported crimes per student population.
The study included break downs in crime data like robberies, dating violence and robberies amongst other crimes.
California Institute of Technology in Pasadena ranked seventh out of the 10 most dangerous universities in the country and the only one in the one in the state.
The school had only 90 reported crimes, the least out of the top 10, but the ratio to its population 2,463 landed it in one of the top spots.
The most dangerous universities in the country are:
No. 1: Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine
No. 2: Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire
No. 3: Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
No. 4: Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts
No. 5: Cornell University in Ithaca, New York
No. 6: Duke University in Durham, North Carolina
No. 7: California Institute of Technology, California
No. 8: Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee
No. 9: Washington State University in Pullman, Washington
No. 10: The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Four California universities made the list of the 10 safest campuses in the U.S.: the University of Southern California, Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles.
The other safest campuses in the country are:
No. 1: Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts
No. 2: John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland
No. 3: University of Southern California, California
No. 4: University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida
No. 5: University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois
No. 6: Rice University in Houston, Texas
No. 7: Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts
No. 8: Stanford University, California
No. 9: University of California, Berkeley, California
No. 10: University of California, Los Angeles
Ernesto Centeno Araujo covers breaking news for the Ventura County Star. He can be reached at ecentenoaraujo@vcstar.com.
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