Top 8 Dangerous HBCU Campuses by StartClass

According to research done by StartClass, an online media outlet that provides information on a variance of data and who also recently named “The 25 Most Dangerous Colleges,” two of the country’s 107 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) managed to round out the top half of the list, leading with No. 1 rank Benedict College for campus crimes and Central State University coming in at No. 3.

The site stressed the importance of safety as a factor when deciding where to attend college, and to find the colleges where the most crimes are committed relative to the size of their total enrolled student body, StartClass analyzed statistics from the Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE).

Here’s how the data was composed:

[quote_box_center]The resulting 25 schools are the four-year universities (with at least 1,000 graduate and undergraduate students) with the highest rate of alleged criminal offenses (murder/non-negligent manslaughter, forcible and non-forcible sex offenses, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, and arson) on average from 2011 to 2013. The OPE collects data from campus security authorities and local law enforcement agencies, and therefore its statistics are not directly comparable to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting System, which only collects statistics from police authorities.[/quote_box_center]

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