121 Campus Safety and Securlty Related Incidents Occured at Montana College Campuses

For the calendar year 2023, a total of 1,297 incidents related to campus safety and securty occured at Montana colleges. It includes criminal offenses, arrests, diciplinary actions, VAWA (Violence Against Women Act), and hate crimes.

By subject, there were 134 criminal offenses, 227 arrests, 853 disciplinary actions, 65 VAWA, and 18 hate crimes at Montana colleges.

When limited to on-campus, there were 1,233 incidents reported. By incident type, 121 criminal offenses, 187 arrests, 844 disciplinary actions, 64 VAWA, and 17 hate crimes. In adddition, there were 16 fires reporeted at Montana colleges.

Campus Safety and Security Matters Summary at Montana Colleges
	Total	On-Campus	Non-Campus	Public Properties	Residence Halls¹	Reported²	Rate per 1000 Students
Arrests	227	187	9	31	87	-	4.93
Criminal Offenses	134	121	10	3	74	-	2.91
Disciplinary Actions	853	844	5	4	844	-	18.52
VAWA³	65	64	-	1	34	-	1.41
Hate Crimes	18	17	-	1	6	-	0.39
Total	1,297	1,233	24	40	1,045	-	28.16
Rate Per 1000 Students	28.16	26.77	0.52	0.87	22.69	-	-

¹ The counts on Residence Halls are included in on-campus statistics.

² Reported by local police.

³ VAWA: Violence Against Women Act

Campus Safety and Security Matters for Montana Colleges

The following table summarizes and compares the the number of incidents related to campus safety between colleges in Montana. It includes only on-campus incidents rather than non-campus and public properties.

Last Update: April 22, 2025 | Data source: CSS (Campus Safety and Security), OPE

On-campus Criminal Offenses and Safety Matters at Montana Colleges
State	Enrollment	Total Incidents	Rate per 1000 Students	Arrests	Criminal Offenses	Disciplinary Actions	VAWA	Hate Crimes
Highlands College of Montana Tech - Montana Technological University	-	15	-	0	3	8	0	4
Carroll College	1,103	39	35.36	1	2	36	0	0
Dawson Community College	406	17	41.87	0	1	14	0	2
Montana State University Billings	4,092	55	13.44	0	14	39	2	0
Flathead Valley Community College	2,201	6	2.73	0	1	1	4	0
Great Falls College Montana State University	1,318	1	0.76	0	0	0	1	0
University of Providence	677	30	44.31	0	0	30	0	0
Helena College University of Montana	1,485	1	0.67	0	0	1	0	0
Little Big Horn College	378	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0
Miles Community College	670	4	5.97	0	0	4	0	0
Montana Technological University	1,622	15	9.25	0	3	8	0	4
Montana State University	16,960	793	46.76	120	39	598	29	7
The University of Montana	10,327	160	15.49	55	50	28	27	0
Montana State University-Northern	1,021	18	17.63	10	1	7	0	0
Rocky Mountain College	991	36	36.33	0	3	33	0	0
Salish Kootenai College	648	2	3.09	1	0	0	1	0
The University of Montana-Western	1,458	41	28.12	0	4	37	0	0
Total	46,056	1,233	26.77	187	121	844	64	17

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