Campus Safety and Security Matters at Massachusetts Colleges

For the calendar year 2023, a total of 8,433 incidents related to campus safety and securty occured at Massachusetts colleges. It includes criminal offenses, arrests, diciplinary actions, VAWA (Violence Against Women Act), and hate crimes.

By subject, there were 1,215 criminal offenses, 179 arrests, 6,495 disciplinary actions, 469 VAWA, and 75 hate crimes at Massachusetts colleges.

When limited to on-campus, there were 7,500 incidents reported. By incident type, 904 criminal offenses, 100 arrests, 6,058 disciplinary actions, 389 VAWA, and 49 hate crimes. In adddition, there were 74 fires reporeted at Massachusetts colleges.

Campus Safety and Security Matters Summary at Massachusetts Colleges
	Total	On-Campus	Non-Campus	Public Properties	Residence Halls¹	Reported²	Rate per 1000 Students
Arrests	179	100	13	66	3	-	0.26
Criminal Offenses	1,215	904	92	219	466	-	1.79
Disciplinary Actions	6,495	6,058	413	24	6,058	-	9.57
VAWA³	469	389	45	35	220	-	0.69
Hate Crimes	75	49	11	15	21	-	0.11
Total	8,433	7,500	574	359	6,768	-	12.42
Rate Per 1000 Students	12.42	11.05	0.85	0.53	9.97	-	-

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 Massachusetts Colleges

The following table summarizes and compares the the number of incidents related to campus safety between colleges in Massachusetts. 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 Massachusetts Colleges
State	Enrollment	Total Incidents	Rate per 1000 Students	Arrests	Criminal Offenses	Disciplinary Actions	VAWA	Hate Crimes
Hult International Business School	2,003	23	11.48	0	3	19	1	0
Hult International Business School - London Undergraduate Campus	-	3	-	0	0	3	0	0
American International College	2,142	71	33.15	1	17	50	3	0
Amherst College	1,910	38	19.90	0	19	12	3	4
Anna Maria College	1,332	37	27.78	0	1	35	1	0
Assabet Valley Regional Technical School	48	10	208.33	0	0	10	0	0
Assumption University	2,046	78	38.12	0	7	71	0	0
Babson College	3,943	132	33.48	0	19	94	18	1
Bancroft School of Massage Therapy	51	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0
Bay Path University	2,643	1	0.38	0	0	1	0	0
Bentley University	5,264	160	30.40	0	7	151	2	0
Berklee College of Music	8,448	121	14.32	0	7	101	13	0
Berklee College of Music - Valencia Campus	-	1	-	0	0	1	0	0
Boston Architectural College	787	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0
Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis Inc	169	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0
Boston College	15,280	754	49.35	0	30	712	12	0
Boston University	36,624	324	8.85	1	29	282	10	2
Boston University - Boston University Medical Campus	-	44	-	2	40	0	2	0
Boston University - School of Social Work, Bedford	-	1	-	0	1	0	0	0
Brandeis University	5,302	95	17.92	0	8	69	14	4
Bridgewater State University	9,550	244	25.55	3	17	200	19	5
Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital School of Nursing	152	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0
Bunker Hill Community College	8,545	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0
Bunker Hill Community College - Chelsea Campus	-	4	-	0	4	0	0	0
Cape Cod Community College	2,604	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0
Cape Cod Community College - Plymouth Aviation	-	0	-	0	0	0	0	0
Cape Cod Community College - Funeral Service Program Campus	-	0	-	0	0	0	0	0
Clark University	4,124	100	24.25	0	9	88	2	1
Curry College	1,994	66	33.10	0	10	50	6	0
Dean College	1,151	101	87.75	0	10	80	11	0
National Aviation Academy of New England	210	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0
Eastern Nazarene College	458	456	995.63	0	11	436	5	4
Emerson College	5,670	379	66.84	1	6	366	6	0
Emmanuel College	2,059	85	41.28	0	4	78	3	0
Endicott College	4,254	352	82.75	0	6	340	6	0
Fisher College	1,501	30	19.99	0	5	23	2	0
Fitchburg State University	6,296	63	10.01	0	5	57	1	0
Framingham State University	4,028	10	2.48	0	10	0	0	0
Gordon College	1,610	23	14.29	0	3	19	1	0
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary	1,373	1	0.73	0	0	0	1	0
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary - Boston Campus	-	0	-	0	0	0	0	0
Hampshire College	717	29	40.45	0	9	19	1	0
Harvard University	30,386	210	6.91	0	194	3	10	3
Harvard University - Longwood Campus	-	8	-	0	8	0	0	0
College of the Holy Cross	3,035	107	35.26	0	7	94	6	0
Lasell University	1,527	65	42.57	0	8	55	2	0
Lesley University	3,134	34	10.85	0	11	18	5	0
University of Massachusetts-Lowell	16,770	125	7.45	0	19	103	3	0
University of Massachusetts-Lowell - Lowell-Haverhill	-	0	-	0	0	0	0	0
University of Massachusetts-Amherst	31,810	283	8.90	76	46	149	11	1
University of Massachusetts-Boston	15,810	96	6.07	1	2	82	11	0
Massachusetts Bay Community College	3,973	1	0.25	0	0	1	0	0
MCPHS University	6,321	27	4.27	0	1	25	0	1
MCPHS University - MCPHS, Worcester Campus	-	2	-	0	1	0	1	0
Massachusetts College of Art and Design	1,986	12	6.04	0	4	6	2	0
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	11,920	73	6.12	0	10	43	17	3
Massachusetts Maritime Academy	1,362	8	5.87	0	2	6	0	0
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School	1,394	25	17.93	2	17	0	5	1
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School - Baystate Regional Campus	-	5	-	0	4	0	1	0
Merrimack College	5,688	450	79.11	0	4	440	6	0
Middlesex Community College	8,280	1	0.12	0	1	0	0	0
Middlesex Community College - Lowell Campus	-	0	-	0	0	0	0	0
Mount Holyoke College	2,330	41	17.60	0	7	34	0	0
Mount Wachusett Community College	3,204	1	0.31	0	0	0	0	1
The New England Conservatory of Music	784	7	8.93	0	5	2	0	0
New England Law-Boston	1,083	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0
Nichols College	1,354	54	39.88	0	5	48	1	0
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts	933	35	37.51	0	3	24	7	1
North Shore Community College	4,833	1	0.21	0	0	0	1	0
North Shore Community College - Lynn Campus	-	1	-	0	0	0	1	0
Northeastern University	31,159	280	8.99	5	27	222	23	3
Northeastern University - London Campus	-	0	-	0	0	0	0	0
Northern Essex Community College - Lawrence Campus	-	0	-	0	0	0	0	0
College of Our Lady of the Elms	1,332	6	4.50	0	2	4	0	0
Quincy College	2,603	7	2.69	0	0	5	1	1
Quinsigamond Community College	6,930	2	0.29	0	1	0	1	0
Regis College	2,842	18	6.33	0	3	14	1	0
Roxbury Community College	1,631	16	9.81	1	12	0	3	0
Salem State University	6,239	65	10.42	3	18	32	12	0
Simmons University	5,053	30	5.94	0	0	17	11	2
Smith College	2,830	23	8.13	0	6	16	1	0
Springfield College	2,785	111	39.86	0	16	88	7	0
Springfield Technical Community College	4,561	3	0.66	0	0	1	2	0
University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth	7,759	79	10.18	0	19	54	6	0
Stonehill College	2,584	266	102.94	0	9	252	5	0
Suffolk University	6,697	130	19.41	0	4	122	4	0
Tufts University	13,274	209	15.75	0	16	177	10	6
Tufts University - Boston Health Sciences Campus	-	21	-	0	18	0	3	0
Tufts University - Grafton Campus	-	3	-	0	2	0	0	1
Tufts University - School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts	-	4	-	0	2	2	0	0
Wellesley College	2,418	7	2.89	0	2	2	3	0
Wentworth Institute of Technology	4,018	120	29.87	0	14	88	18	0
Western New England University	3,574	125	34.97	1	3	114	6	1
Westfield State University	4,555	115	25.25	0	14	98	3	0
Wheaton College (Massachusetts)	1,778	75	42.18	2	14	48	11	0
Williams College	2,168	33	15.22	0	16	2	15	0
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	7,353	86	11.70	0	16	61	6	3
Worcester State University	5,611	125	22.28	0	13	109	3	0
Bard College - Bard College at Simon's Rock	-	31	-	0	0	30	1	0
Rob Roy Academy-Worcester	121	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0
Motoring Technical Training Institute	328	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0
Urban College of Boston	728	1	1.37	1	0	0	0	0
Franklin W Olin College of Engineering	402	1	2.49	0	1	0	0	0
Total	678,760	7,500	11.05	100	904	6,058	389	49

904 Campus Safety and Securlty Related Incidents Occured at Massachusetts College Campuses

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Campus Safety and Security Matters for Massachusetts Colleges