Campus Safety and Security Matters at Colorado Colleges

For the calendar year 2023, a total of 6,031 incidents related to campus safety and securty occured at Colorado colleges. It includes criminal offenses, arrests, diciplinary actions, VAWA (Violence Against Women Act), and hate crimes.

By subject, there were 991 criminal offenses, 483 arrests, 4,183 disciplinary actions, 300 VAWA, and 74 hate crimes at Colorado colleges.

When limited to on-campus, there were 5,685 incidents reported. By incident type, 831 criminal offenses, 368 arrests, 4,138 disciplinary actions, 282 VAWA, and 66 hate crimes. In adddition, there were 10 fires reporeted at Colorado colleges.

Campus Safety and Security Matters Summary at Colorado Colleges
	Total	On-Campus	Non-Campus	Public Properties	Residence Halls¹	Reported²	Rate per 1000 Students
Arrests	483	368	-	115	125	-	1.11
Criminal Offenses	991	831	33	127	205	-	2.28
Disciplinary Actions	4,183	4,138	23	22	4,138	-	9.61
VAWA³	300	282	1	17	101	-	0.69
Hate Crimes	74	66	2	6	16	-	0.17
Total	6,031	5,685	59	287	4,585	-	13.85
Rate Per 1000 Students	13.85	13.05	0.14	0.66	10.53	-	-

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 Colorado Colleges

The following table summarizes and compares the the number of incidents related to campus safety between colleges in Colorado. 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 Colorado Colleges
State	Enrollment	Total Incidents	Rate per 1000 Students	Arrests	Criminal Offenses	Disciplinary Actions	VAWA	Hate Crimes
Adams State University	2,950	100	33.90	2	15	70	12	1
Aims Community College	7,529	3	0.40	0	3	0	0	0
Arapahoe Community College	13,978	2	0.14	0	2	0	0	0
University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus	23,409	160	6.83	33	54	42	26	5
University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus - CU Denver - Anschutz Medical Campus	-	140	-	9	115	0	16	0
University of Colorado Colorado Springs	11,213	136	12.13	15	18	91	12	0
University of Colorado Boulder	41,432	1,845	44.53	119	170	1,478	44	34
Colorado Christian University	8,254	9	1.09	0	6	3	0	0
Colorado College	2,173	308	141.74	0	25	276	3	4
Concorde Career College-Aurora	196	6	30.61	0	6	0	0	0
Colorado Mountain College	5,673	39	6.87	19	2	18	0	0
Colorado Northwestern Community College	1,256	1	0.80	0	1	0	0	0
Colorado School of Mines	7,599	95	12.50	5	12	76	2	0
Colorado State University-Fort Collins	33,500	929	27.73	21	80	784	42	2
Community College of Aurora	8,684	1	0.12	0	1	0	0	0
Community College of Aurora - Lowry Campus	-	6	-	0	5	0	1	0
Community College of Denver	7,715	146	18.92	30	54	34	26	2
Community College of Denver - CCD Lowry	-	6	-	0	5	0	1	0
Lincoln College of Technology-Denver	1,104	7	6.34	0	6	0	1	0
University of Denver	13,387	469	35.03	2	52	400	11	4
University of Denver - Western Colorado Campus	-	1	-	1	0	0	0	0
Fort Lewis College	3,413	217	63.58	19	3	189	5	1
Front Range Community College	21,096	1	0.05	0	1	0	0	0
Front Range Community College - Boulder County Campus	-	1	-	1	0	0	0	0
Iliff School of Theology	172	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0
Lamar Community College	711	51	71.73	1	0	49	1	0
Colorado Mesa University	8,995	234	26.01	18	12	196	8	0
Colorado Mesa University - Colorado Mesa University - Montrose Campus	-	0	-	0	0	0	0	0
Colorado Mesa University - Colorado Mesa University - Bishop Campus	-	1	-	0	0	0	1	0
Metropolitan State University of Denver	17,593	126	7.16	33	54	14	21	4
Naropa University	1,117	11	9.85	1	3	4	1	2
Northeastern Junior College	1,502	16	10.65	5	2	8	1	0
University of Northern Colorado	9,067	161	17.76	22	39	73	27	0
Otero College	972	39	40.12	0	1	37	1	0
Pikes Peak State College	12,388	9	0.73	0	5	0	4	0
Pikes Peak State College - Rampart Range Campus	-	4	-	0	4	0	0	0
Pueblo Community College	6,767	9	1.33	0	2	7	0	0
Pueblo Community College - Pueblo Community College at Fremont	-	1	-	0	0	0	1	0
Red Rocks Community College	7,382	4	0.54	0	4	0	0	0
Red Rocks Community College - Arvada Campus	-	4	-	1	3	0	0	0
Regis University	4,631	79	17.06	7	27	38	3	4
Regis University - Regis University - Thornton	-	5	-	1	3	0	1	0
Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design	1,888	1	0.53	0	1	0	0	0
Colorado State University Pueblo	6,691	136	20.33	2	5	127	2	0
Pickens Technical College	1,025	3	2.93	0	2	0	1	0
Intellitec College-Colorado Springs	816	2	2.45	0	2	0	0	0
Intellitec College-Grand Junction - INTELLITEC COLLEGE - PUEBLO	-	3	-	0	3	0	0	0
Trinidad State College	1,636	15	9.17	0	1	14	0	0
Trinidad State College - Valley Campus	-	1	-	0	0	0	1	0
Western Colorado University	4,053	128	31.58	1	8	110	6	3
AdventHealth University - AdventHealth University-Denver	-	5	-	0	5	0	0	0
Platt College-Aurora	215	1	4.65	0	1	0	0	0
IBMC College	306	1	3.27	0	1	0	0	0
IBMC College - Longmont Campus	-	2	-	0	2	0	0	0
Colorado School of Healing Arts	60	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0
Pima Medical Institute-Denver	764	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0
Colorado Media School	45	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0
Academy of Natural Therapy Inc	52	1	19.23	0	1	0	0	0
Taft University System	496	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0
Denver College of Nursing	1,008	1	0.99	0	1	0	0	0
Pima Medical Institute-Aurora	290	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0
United Beauty College	12	1	83.33	0	1	0	0	0
Rocky Vista University	1,574	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Mitchell the School-Denver	231	2	8.66	0	2	0	0	0
Arizona College of Nursing-Aurora	212	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0
Total	435,475	5,685	13.05	368	831	4,138	282	66

831 Campus Safety and Securlty Related Incidents Occured at Colorado College Campuses

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Campus Safety and Security Matters for Colorado Colleges