Campus sexual assault
Rape and other sexual assault at colleges and universities, including in fraternity and sorority houses, and what happens when it is reported.
Outline. The research for this insight is not written yet.
How many sexual assaults do colleges report?
Every college that takes federal student aid must publish the crimes reported to it each year under the Clery Act, by campus. The counts include rape, fondling, incest, and statutory rape, plus dating violence, domestic violence, and stalking. They come from reports to police and to other campus officials, such as deans and coaches, so they hold reports that never reached police.
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- Rapes and fondling reported to colleges, by year, nationally and by state.
- The same by where it happened: on campus, in campus housing, on noncampus property, and on public property next to campus.
- Reports per 10,000 students, with each college's enrollment named as the denominator.
Are fraternity houses different?
No crime record says "fraternity." Police, court, and Clery records have no field for it. The nearest thing is Clery's noncampus property, which includes houses owned or controlled by student organizations a college officially recognizes. That takes in many fraternity and sorority houses, but not all, and it takes in other buildings too.
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- Sexual offenses reported on noncampus property beside those in campus housing, at colleges that list Greek houses as noncampus property.
- Hazing reports, which colleges now must count under the Stop Campus Hazing Act of 2024.
How many go unreported?
The National Crime Victimization Survey asks people directly, whether or not they told anyone. It records whether a person is a college student, so it can compare students with people the same age who are not, nationally.
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- Rape and sexual assault victimization of college students and of nonstudents the same age.
- The share of each that was reported to police.
What happens to the cases?
Police records note when an offense happened at a college or university, as a location type, but not whether anyone involved was a student. Court records don't note it either. Campus discipline under Title IX is a separate, administrative process, and most of it is confidential.
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When the sources are loaded, this will show (answers at: state, national):
- Sexual offenses police recorded at college and university locations, and how many ended in an arrest.
What the records can't answer
- Say whether a victim or offender was a student, from police or court records. Only Clery reports and the survey record it.
- Tie an offense to a fraternity. No record has a fraternity field, and a chapter is named only where a charge, a court finding, or a college's own published hazing finding names it.
- Rank colleges by their counts. A college with more reports may have more assaults, or may make reporting easier. Clery counts are reports, not findings.
- Count campus discipline as crime. Title IX cases are administrative, and most are confidential.
How it is recorded
- 11ARape
- 11BSodomy
- 11CSexual assault with an object
- 11DFondling
FBI NIBRS offense codes. The same act may carry a different name in state law and court records.
Clery uses the FBI's NIBRS definitions for rape, fondling, incest, and statutory rape, and counts each by where it happened rather than by who was involved. No victim of a sexual offense is ever named on CrimeDB.
Where the records are
U.S. Department of Education · Incidents, Arrests, Hate crime · csv, xlsx, html · annual
Crimes, arrests, and disciplinary referrals reported by every college receiving federal aid. Campus level, so a later phase. Verified September 2026.
- FBI Crime Data ExplorerNational
FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) · Incidents, Arrests, Hate crime, Use of force, Other · html, csv · annual
Official front door to UCR/NIBRS data for ~19k agencies; agency participation varies by year, especially post-2021 NIBRS transition.
Bureau of Justice Statistics · Victimization · pdf, html, csv · annual
Only national measure of crime including unreported crime; national estimates only (limited state/local detail).