California State University-Fresno, with a student population of 20,932, has 12 violent crimes and 413 property crimes per year. 2011 was a particularly bad year, with 17 violent crimes and 501 property crimes.
University of California-Riverside, with a student population of 20,692, has 11 violent crimes and 360 property crimes per year. 2011 was a relatively non-violent year, with only one forcible rape, four robberies, and two aggravated assaults.
Other universities listed among the 25 most dangerous colleges are:
New Mexico State University, Duke University, Florida A&M University, Vanderbilt University, University of New Mexico, University of South Alabama, Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge, Georgia Institute of Technology, Ball State University, Indiana State University, University of Cincinnati, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northern Arizona University, Rutgers University-Newark, Western Illinois University, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, State University of New York College-Buffalo, Arkansas State University-Jonesboro and Florida State University-Tallahassee.
However, University of Southern California (USC), which has seen some awful, high-profile crimes, including the killing of two graduate students from China in this spring, was nowhere to be found on the magazine's Top 25 "Most Dangerous" list.
Some in the education field challenged the listing by saying that besides the killing of two Chinese students in this spring in a botched robbery off-campus, USC has other problems.
Last September two USC students were shot at an off-campus party. And this Halloween there was a shooting on campus at a party with a few hundred students in attendance. So how did UCLA end up topping the list while USC is not even on the list? It appears that sloppy methodology is the culprit.
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