<p>^^^ Thats EXACTLY my point. You'd think its safe, but my friend's s got mugged TWICE his freshman year at BU. So, how can we say any school is "safe"??</p>
<p>Here is my list of Midwest schools that I think to be safe/unsafe:</p>
<p>Safe:
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
University of Wisconsin-Madison (to an extent)
Drake
Northwestern
Most LAC's</p>
<p>Unsafe:
Marquette
UW-Milwaukee
UChicago (just the southside area in general)</p>
<p>My Winners(for urban Midwest schools):
Safe-University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Unsafe-UW-Milwaukee/Marquette</p>
<p>Let's face it, as stated in previous posts an urban school will have more crime than a small LAC in the middle of nowhere.</p>
<p>I think Virginia Military Institute is quite safe. Of course, there are some trade offs. :)</p>
<p>^^^ Come to think of it, any school where the students have weapons would perhaps be a deterrant to crime ;)</p>
<p>Any campus can be unsafe if you're unaware of your surroundings/are naive.</p>
<p>Syracuse is boarded by the "ghetto" on one side</p>
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<p>The couple lived over an hour away from the campus. The murders were also unrelated to their relationship to the college.</p>
<p>enough cheesey "any campus can be unsafe" just give the poster specific campuses or situations that are proven to be unsafe. not "any campus" has people who have been murdered or mugged at knife or gun point.</p>
<p>why dont u just carry a gun.....</p>
<p>University of Oregon is in a safe, yet bum infested (but they're getting kicked out), town where everyone's a supporter; I wouldn't feel scared at all when walking around outside of campus.</p>
<p>OP, your question is a good one and will become more relevant in the near future. My son goes to an urban school in one of the rust belt states and we've started the recession a year ealier than the rest of you. Crime (primarily robberies and theft) have increased dramatically. If the economy gets worse, so will these crimes. An interesting fact is that most of the perpetrators, around his campus, are area teens.</p>
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The murders were also unrelated to their relationship to the college.
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So what? A murder is a murder. Any idiot can go postal and kill people on or off a college campus.</p>
<p>what about UCLA, and Caltech, are they safe? (and btw, thanks for all the information guys)</p>
<p>Yale is about the most frigthening place I ever saw when I was in downtown New Haven. Columbia looked almost pastoral in comparison.</p>
<p>Check out the campus security website _ I've also linked the place for you to put in the name of the school and you can look up their crime stats (be sure to open the window full size to see all the info, and open all 3 tabs)Security</a> On Campus, Inc.
Department</a> of Education Security Data</p>
<p>Thanks for the information, I never would have thought that yale fell into the dangerous class, specially since it's an Ivy League</p>
<p>Uhhhh...... why would you think the ivy's are any safer? Many of the older schools were built in cities, and as we have been saying, the urban schools are in general, less safe. Penn, Yale, and yes even areas around Columbia still border on sketchy parts or town. Being an Ivy (which really, as we know, only refers to the football league) in NO way assures personal safety. I felt much safer around Brown than around Yale, and safer around Harvard than around Penn. Does that help?</p>
<p>yup. Thanks</p>
<p>Unsafe:</p>
<p>Yale (New Haven is apparently not so bad anymore, though the north edge of campus is still seedy)
UNLV (it's sin city...there's bound to be vice)
Columbia (Harlem...not as bad as it used to be, though)
UChicago (south Chicago is NOT for the timid)
Temple (this is based on what I hear)
Hopkins (neighborhood is not terribly unsafe, but the area is kinda depressed)</p>
<p>Almost any non-urban school will be pretty safe. Some safe urban schools:</p>
<p>Harvard and MIT are in Cambridge, which is basically college city. Very safe it seems.
Georgetown...though safeness means cost of living is super high
Boston College, Tufts, and Northwestern are all similar in that they're technically in the suburbs, but they're close enough to the city to be considered urban, and yes, they're all safe
UW...Madison is very safe</p>
<p>Very few top schools are actually in non-urban areas, but they're all safe, methinks (this includes Princeton, Dartmouth, Williams)</p>
<p>Don't know about Rice, Emory, Ga Tech, Vanderbilt, UT, Berkeley, Stanford, Tulane, USC, UCLA, and other schools in urban areas.</p>
<p>Boston College and Tufts are in very different areas. The area immediately surrounding the Tufts campus is pretty nice, but parts of Somerville are still a bit rough around the edges. It used to be really rough 10-15 years ago, but was cleaned up and gentrified over the ensuing time period. There are still areas that students would be wise to avoid, however, and the occasional crackhouse here or there is not a surprise. BC is like Disneyworld by comparison.</p>
<p>Rice, Texas, Stanford and UCLA are all in upscale, relatively affluent areas of their respective cities and are about as safe as an urban campus can be (or suburban in Stanford's case, I guess).</p>