<p>The Marquette campus and surrounding neighborhoods have improved immensely in the last 15 years. This is not to say that a student shouldn’t still be cautious, particularly in the residential areas just north and west, but within a few blocks of campus it’s okay. The campus itself is very safe and quite attractive for a downtown city campus on flat ground. East and south of campus Marquette is bordered by freeways, but if you walk over the brand new bridge on Wisconsin Avenue (the main drag on campus) you are already in Downtown Milwaukee, which is completely safe in the daytime and quite safe at night. I see students running and jogging around the area all the time.</p>
<p>I have not been to SLU but the daughter of a close friend of mine will be a freshman there this fall in the 6 year PT program. They have visited several times and are satisfied the campus is safe.</p>
<p>Someone above mentioned that all city campuses have these issues. Not all. One of my alma maters, UW-Milwaukee, has a very attractive campus in the nicest part of Milwaukee. It’s a terrific urban University, but unfortunately it does not have a PT program that I am aware of.</p>