TU Campus Works to Reduce Crime Rate

By Ty Page

While college institutions located in Tulsa are safer than other college institutions in the state of Oklahoma, the University of Tulsa totals a significantly higher number of criminal offenses in comparison with its neighboring institutions.

In the past three years, the University of Tulsa has recorded 89 on-campus criminal offenses, according to the Office of Postsecondary Education. This totals 75 more criminal offenses than Rogers State University and 51 more than Oral Roberts University.

A similar enrollment size of between 3,000 and 4,000 students is shared among the three college institutions, but TU proves to be a more risky environment.

The majority of the criminal offenses on TU’s campus included burglary and motor vehicle theft.

Specifically 40.4 percent of the criminal offenses were related to burglary and 44.9 percent were related to motor vehicle theft.

In contrast, none of the criminal offenses that took place at Rogers State were related to motor vehicle theft, along with only 2 occurrences at Oral Roberts.

TU officials have made additional efforts to reduce the rate of motor vehicle theft. There is now only one entrance to most parking lots on campus and an iron fence borders the perimeter of the school.

More information on crime rates for the University of Tulsa and other campuses can be found here.