These are top colleges for campus safety, says think tank

A small and little-known think tank in Denton, Texas, called Academic Influence says it used computer programs with machine learning to scrape crime data from the internet, then rank what it says are the nation’s top 15 safest college campuses. Academic Influence says the rankings included only those institutions of higher learning that can deliver a high-quality education. Warning: Some experts on campus security differ with these rankings. The goal for publishing them? To get parents and students thinking about campus safety and reviewing data about campus crime as well as the steps that colleges have taken to safeguard their students and staff.