A study from Davidoff Law Personal Injury Lawyers recently showed which universities in the country rank as the most dangerous.
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.
What are the most dangerous universities in the country?
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:
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No. 1: Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine
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No. 2: Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire
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No. 3: Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
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No. 4: Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts
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No. 5: Cornell University in Ithaca, New York
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No. 6: Duke University in Durham, North Carolina
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No. 7: California Institute of Technology, California
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No. 8: Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee
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No. 9: Washington State University in Pullman, Washington
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No. 10: The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Which universities are the safest in the country?
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:
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No. 1: Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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No. 2: John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland
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No. 3: University of Southern California, California
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No. 4: University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida
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No. 5: University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois
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No. 6: Rice University in Houston, Texas
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No. 7: Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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No. 8: Stanford University, California
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No. 9: University of California, Berkeley, California
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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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