Campus Safety and Security

At Columbia University, the safety and well-being of our students, faculty, and staff is an important priority. Columbia’s campuses and their environs are safe and have a relatively low crime rate for an urban university.

The University is required by federal law to publish an annual security report containing information with respect to campus security policies and statistics on the incidence of certain crimes on and around our campuses. This information is available at the Web site for the United States Department of Education (http://ope.ed.gov/Security/search.asp); by requesting a copy of the report from: Campus Crime Report, Department of Public Safety, Columbia University, 111 Low Library, Mail Code 4301, 535 West 116th Street, New York, NY 10027; or on the Public Safety Web site (www.columbia.edu/cu/publicsafety).