<p>All of the lists that have been offered in this thread are basically just lists of the eight schools going from most rural to most urban. Apart from substance abuse and the crimes it most tends to perpetuate (date rape, vandalism, etc.), college campuses in general have much lower crime rates than comparable non-campus locales. My two Ds have been at Harvard for three years and for one year, and neither has ever had a scary incident or lost anything to theft (except for a jacket that D2 took off and left on a chair at a party).</p>