<p>Geesh, this safety debate goes on every few months. Look, if you want safety, go to a military academy. They have solid fences, perimeter patrols and guard shacks at all entrances. Or,maybe find a small college in a small town in a state that has good gun control…</p>
<p>Outside of them, you’re gonna need to take your chances. All urban universities, whether they are Chicago, Penn, Harvard, Berkeley, NYU or Columbia, have similar sets of problems.</p>
<p>But even the surburban and rural ones have problems, too, just less obvious, like theft from dorms, student to student assault (alcohol enabled?) and such.</p>
<p>So, as others have said, get real and learn to read your environment. And stop searching for an answer that does not exist. If you are concerned about safety, nothing anyone says on these boards will make you think otherwise. But go visit if you can and draw your own conclusions. </p>
<p>Please do remember too that safety stats for higher ed are very tough to come by and even tougher to compare because of inconsistent recording and such. For example, most of the things recorded by the UofC police take place off campus, sometimes more than a mile away.</p>