College crime rankings: See where your school ranks in NJ and nationally

With hundreds and thousands of students on college campuses, many of them living on their own for the first time and trying to navigate through their adult-ish lives, things can go wrong. While the majority of students make it through their college experience safely, college campuses do see some crimes.How does your school stack up to others in terms of crime numbers?NorthJersey.com has a searchable database that can help you track your school's crime rates over the years and compare it to other schools in New Jersey and around the country, based on data from the Department of Education.NJ college and university crime rankingsIn both 2019 and 2020, the most recently reported years, the schools with the highest number of reported crimes in New Jersey were Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Princeton University and Rowan University.In 2019 Rutgers University-New Brunswick, which has a student population of about 43,859, ranked first in the state with 92 total reported crimes, 31st nationa...