<p>i agree!! tulane is awesome!!!</p>
<p>New Orleans, pre-Katrina, had a murder rate four times that of Newark, NJ, for example, according to the FBI crime statistics for 2002. In 2006, post-Katrina, it was not quite double that of Newark's, but more than double Boston's. Although still among the highest murder rates in the nation, you were only twice as likely to be killed in New Orleans as Boston or Newark. I would not call it safe.</p>
<p>lmao at redcrimblue's comment...tulane is in the richest urban part of new orleans, not the hood...ur comment is such a generalization, thats like comparing compton and beverly hills</p>
<p>tulane really is in the richest part of the city </p>
<p>it is interesting that a few streets from the richest part of the city are some of the poorest parts of the city</p>
<p>every time i go uptown i see police around the campus</p>
<p>This is excerpted from the current article posted on Fortune:</p>
<p>"By New Orlean standards, it's a mild summer evening on the leafy campus of Tulane University. The twilight sun dances off the stately homes along St. Charles Avenue, the toniest address in the city's Uptown neighborhood, as students jog along the dormant tracks of an electric streetcar line. This part of town is the antidote to the destruction that weighs so heavily on the soul elsewhere, an oasis of Southern charm in a blemished city."</p>
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<p>Redcrimblue and Hi-Power, are you observations on NOLA based on first hand experience or statistics? Is Tulane in an upscale area or not? It's either one or the other.</p>
<p>My son just graduated and his younger brother is about to start Tulane in 2 weeks. I've visited many times - Tulane is located in a lovely, upscale neighborhood surrounded by expensive homes, student housing and Audubon Park which is beautiful. It is about 4 miles up St. Charles Ave. from the French Quarter. It is nowhere near the neighborhoods that are focused on in the news regarding devastation or drug crime. As in any big city there are sketchy areas - but any knowledgeable resident would avoid walking alone in these neighborhoods - and there's no reason a Tulane student would inadvertently end up in these areas. If you're seriously considering the school you should visit. I love visiting my sons at Tulane and have never felt unsafe.</p>
<p>To support what altmom has said, my son has been at Tulane for two years now and we have been there several times to see him (as well as having visited NOLA many times in the past for conventions). The area surrounding Tulane and most of the places he goes are lovely. He has enough sense not to wander around alone at night in sketchy areas--or just about anywhere, for that matter. It simply isn't smart anywhere. I don't quite know why people particularly like to try to scare others off with this topic at this place, but anyone who knows the city well knows that you need only a modicum of good sense to be as safe as you are in most U.S. cities.</p>
<p>Why guess? The New Orleans Police dept has an excellent interactive crime map with current stats. It is online at this site: <a href="http://secure.cityofno.com/portal.aspx?portal=50&tabid=1%5B/url%5D">http://secure.cityofno.com/portal.aspx?portal=50&tabid=1</a></p>
<p>I think you'll be pleased to see that, overall, crime is lower around the Uptown district where Tulane and Loyola are.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for the interactive crime stats site. I used it to check on my mom's neighborhood (she still lives there and refuses to leave). The good news is that most of what is going on where she lives is thefts and burglaries. It is really cool that you can pass the cursor on a crime circle and it tells you what the crime was and the street it was on. </p>
<p>fwiw - keep in mind that while there seems to be a goodly amount of thefts, some of these may be thefts from reconstruction sites. Unfortunately, when contractors deliver materials to work sites, people come during the night and steal them from off the porch or whatever. Sometimes if the house is not lived in, the theives will break in and steal the new fixtures that have already been installed! Like the new door knobs, light fixtures, or even the floor boards themselves! All of which is making the recovery go so much slower.</p>
<p>But my point is that these "thefts" are not necessarily thefts like OOS parents might imagine. Quite a few of them are work site thefts from property no one is living in, as opposed to you come home after work/school to a normal neighborhood to discover you've been robbed. The workmen can't even leave their tools on the site or they'll be gone the next day.</p>
<p>Anyways, that is one reason why the area around the university itself is relatively crime free, ie, people are living there in large numbers and that is a crime preventative all by itself.</p>
<p>And fwiw, the sort of theft mercymom just described is nothing new or peculiar to NOLA. my father built houses--spec houses, working pretty much alone--all his life, and people would drive by and see materials and then come by later when no one was around and take what they wanted. My mother actually followed one home once and then confronted them and made them take the stuff back to the work site. (Gutsy woman.) It's one reason he used to work from dawn to dark.</p>