Vanderbilt among the Most Dangerous Campuses in America?

Colleges & Universities Vanderbilt University
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<p>I’m curious how they qualify “on campus” and how it varies between schools. The majority of those crimes certainly did NOT occur on campus. The Vanderbilt police department alerts students about every crime, from armed robbery to a man grazing a students boob while walking on the street. We are pretty rarely are notified. I think much of the data is coming from the greater Nashville area, some parts of which are not the safest place. Campus itself is very safe. This method of reporting may not be the same for every school. </p>

<p>We also rank high on that particular list because we happen to be one of the smallest schools on that list. It also doesn’t include any schools under 10,000, which are a lot more likely to be located in cities with higher crime rates and tend to have higher crime:student ratios, so the list is skewed. The bigger the school gets, the more likely it is to be located in a random college town rather than inside a big city.</p>

<p>I can tell you that this list definitely does not include the schools that are actually considered the most dangerous where students are actually nervous to leave campus…</p>

<p><a href=“Most Dangerous Colleges 2010”>Most Dangerous Colleges 2010;
Vanderbilt is #46 on this list, whereas we find Harvard, Tufts, UPenn, Brown, Columbia, and Stanford in the top 20. </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.american-school-search.com/colleges/dangerous[/url]”>http://www.american-school-search.com/colleges/dangerous&lt;/a&gt;
Here’s another with Vanderbilt as #77. Dartmouth, Princeton, Amherst, Swarthmore in the top 20. </p>

<p>Notice both these lists include schools with under 10k students.</p>

<p>These lists are always based on random data and methodology and never match up and never give an actual realistic indication of how safe the campuses are. Students at Vanderbilt feel and know they are safe on campus and that’s all that really matters. Students here also realize Nashville is a big city and is a dangerous place just like any other big city, so we’re careful when leaving the safety of campus.</p>