<p>Somebody told me once that AU was in the “BAD” part of DC. like it was in an area that had a lot of crime/ was unclean in general.</p>
<p>i know dc isn’t exactly the safest place in the world but i’ve heard some universities like gwu are in a good area of dc. is au in a good area too?</p>
<p>BS! It’s in a great area! visit and you’ll see it for yourself!</p>
<p>Well, it’s got all the “foreign” embassies, if that’s what you mean…</p>
<p>AU is in a very nice residential neighborhood in NW DC. Can’t imagine where you got your info.</p>
<p>AU is in a nice rural town called Tenlytown. It’s right by neighborhoods, and not too far down is the metro and little shops. It’s also very close to Friendship Heights, the shopping area. I’m going to George Washington, but American was such a beautiful campus and it’s in a good area too :).</p>
<p>AU is probably the University that is in the safest part of DC.
GW’s main campus is in the middle of the city, and has normal people walking down the streets and get get massively busy and is truly city living.
Catholic in my opinion is in a bad area, by boyfriend goes to school there, and my mom told me that A) I either couldn’t visit or I had to be escorted by him to campus from the Metro.
American is secluded, and feels like the typical college campus but is still right in DC. You won’t have strange people walking around your campus and its green! If your standing on campus you have no idea that the country’s capital is surrounding you. It is right off of Embassy Row and The National Security Office Staff parks in AU’s Nebraska parking lot. So… it is definitely a safe campus. Besides the blue light program and such. They have a second smaller campus, and actually that is where the metro stop is. Which at first may seem inconvenient, but it makes the campus safer, and again keeps the goonies away from the dormitories and such, and its just a quick 4 minute bus ride away or a 10 minute walk.
It is a fantastic campus, the best of both worlds, city and the peace of a non city college campus. Don’t listen to whoever told you that.</p>
<p>Just watch out, there is one strange guy who says hi near the Metro station. (Sorry, inside joke).</p>
<p>Most of the violent crime in DC is concentrated in the eastern half of the city. American is surrounded by major institutional uses and expensive homes. Biden lives down the street.</p>
<p>Students should never venture off campus to the Foxhall Road ghetto.</p>
<p>Yea, daddude, I hear the embassies are all turning into crackhouses and there are shootouts every night outside of Biden’s house at the Observatory.</p>
<p>National Security is right across the street I think that’s as safe as you can get haha</p>
<p>What do you mean, “National Security”?</p>
<p>NSA is at Ft. Meade, Maryland, near BWI Airport.</p>
<p>There are a lot of embassies not far from AU, as has been noted, but I’m not aware of anything called “National Security” near American. Have I missed something?</p>
<p>Department of Homeland Security is at the old Navy security station on Nebraska Avenue, across Ward Circle from AU main campus.</p>
<p>hahahahahahahah…auedguy, that ACTUALLY made me LOL 
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<p>thanks everyone! Clearly my friend doesn’t know anything about the unviersity. maybe he was trying to say it about a different school and just got the names mixed up. maybe he was talking about trinity? who knows?</p>
<p>There are a number of OTHER colleges located in very questionable parts of DC. There was just an article in the Washington Post about a gang-related murder spree in the eastern suburbs (Prince George’s County).</p>
<p>What the above poster meant is that the Dept of Homeland Security is literally located right down the street…as are the British Embassy and the NBC headquarters. Lots of security…both obvious and not so…in the area</p>