In addition to weighting, Daily Beast considered each crime against total enrollment, to come up with a per-capita ratio. Finally, each per-capita ratio was compared to the overall cohort of more than 500 schools—to take into account whether each school’s per-capita ratio for each crime was relatively high or low—to determine the final list of America’s Most Crime-Rattled Colleges.
Johnson & Wales University has just been named one of the scariest places to go to college, and not because the chefs are demanding. The Providence-based campus has just been named the country’s #2 Most Crime-Rattled Colleges in America, according to The Daily Beast.
The popular online news source “scoured the college crime data” made available through the US Department of Education. Researchers examined more than 500 four-year nonprofit private colleges and four-year public colleges with more than 6,000 total students, taking into account the numbers for each school’s primary campus and auxiliary campuses in the same metro area as the main campus.
JWU and other dangerous NE colleges
The numbers did not bode well for the nationally known local university, which was second only to University of Alabama, Huntsville, for high crime numbers. Other New England colleges that ranked among the Top 25 most dangerous included:
#8 University of Connecticut
#14 Yale University
#15 Tufts University
#17 University of Maine
#18 University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
#25 Harvard University
The Daily Beast cited the following criminal incidents for JWU as evidence of its crime-rattled ranking:
JWU/Criminal Incidents (2008-2010)
Murders: 3
Negligent Homicides: 0
Robberies: 29
Aggravated Assaults: 44
Burglaries: 15
Car Thefts: 29
Arson: 4
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