Business Insider Ranks Most Dangerous Campuses Across US

Business Insider has prepared a list of colleges that apparently have a high crime rate on the campuses. The ranking of the most dangerous colleges in America was drafted based on Federal Bureau of Investigation's Unified Crime Report for 2011.

Business Insider has listed the alleged notorious colleges across the United States by using simple math. The methodology was: It averaged crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of the violent crime rank and property crime rank (weighted 4:1).

The website has categorized crime into two sub-categories: Violent crimes and property crimes.

-Violent crimes include murder/non-negligent manslaughter,forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault.

-Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft and arson.

According to the list, University of California in Los Angeles, New Mexico State University, University of California in Berkeley, Duke University and Florida A&M University hold the top five spots among the 25 most dangerous colleges in America.

The Business Insider ranking of top dangerous colleges was instantly contended by the UCLA. In a press release, the UCLA officials exhorted the readers not to believe the rankings, stating that their "campus is located in a famously low-crime area of Los Angeles."

"The story puts UCLA at the top of the list. That erroneous claim came as a shock at UCLA, especially to the officials who report crime statistics to the FBI every year, as do most campuses. They knew immediately that the story was way off. It got us wondering how Business Insider could get it so wrong," contended the UCLA.

Generally, most of the colleges annually file a report on the crime statistic to FDI. On the other hand, the Unified Crime Report is a result of aggregation of crime statistics from the police department across the country. The campus police departments also provide the number of misdemeanors in their jurisdiction, including crimes in neighboring areas of school campuses.