Campus Rape Rate Below National Average?

It should be needless to say that rape and
unwanted sexual contact is just evil. Given the Federal data
compiled by the Washington Post, reported sexual offense
rates at colleges and universities in general appear to be somewhat
below the national average of reported rapes and sexual assaults.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics finds that the rate of rapes and
sexual assaults nationally has dropped since 1994 from 5
per 1,000 women to 2.1 per 1,000 women in 2010.

The Federal data cited by the Post is reported as per
1,000 students (not just women) so it should be about doubled for
comparison purposes, but eyeballing it seems in general that the
college rates are below the BJS rate. There, however, are
significant outliers like Reed College (9.62 per 1,000 students),
Vassar (4.16) and Amherst (9.36).

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