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Which colleges have the most rape reports?

Which colleges have the most rape reports?
Posted at 10:56 AM, Jun 08, 2016
and last updated 2016-06-08 11:00:20-04

A handful of high-profile campus rape cases have pushed the issue into the national spotlight in recent years. But thousands of rapes are reported on college campuses across America every year.

New data from the U.S. Department of Education reveals the number of rapes reported at every campus in 2014. The numbers range from 43 reports of rape at a single campus to zero in some cases.

See the colleges and universities that had the most reported rapes in 2014 below.

#1 (tie) — Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island)

Rapes reported: 43

#1 (tie) — University of Connecticut (Storrs, Connecticut)

Rapes reported: 43

#2 — Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire)

Rapes reported: 42

#3 — Wesleyan University (Middletown, Connecticut)

Rapes reported: 37

#4 — University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Virginia)

Rapes reported: 35

#5 — Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Rapes reported: 33

#6 (tie) — University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina)

Rapes reported: 32

#6 (tie) — Rutgers University - New Brunswick (New Brunswick, New Jersey)

Rapes reported: 32

#7 — University of Vermont (Burlington, Vermont)

Rapes reported: 27

#8 — Stanford University (Stanford, California)

Rapes reported: 26

#9 — Emory University (Druid Hills, Georgia)

Rapes reported: 25

#10 — George Washington University (Washington, D.C.)

Rapes reported: 23

A Washington Post analysis of the data broke down the entire list. See information for every individual college and university here.

Clint Davis is a reporter for the Scripps National Desk. Follow him on Twitter @MrClintDavis.