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Sexual Violence Statistics

The First Six Weeks at NC State


For first-year students at NC State, the first six weeks on campus is the highest risk time for incidents of sexual violence as compared to their entire undergraduate experience.  *During the Fall 2006 semester within the first six weeks at NC State, 90% of the reported rape cases involved alcohol or other drugs.
**A majority of students are fearful of reporting a rape to NC State staff member or Campus Police if they were under age and drinking alcohol.  NC State’s primary concern is your physical well-being and how to help you as a survivor.
College Survivors

  • Rape is the most common violent crime on American college campuses today (Sampson, 2002)
  • Approximately 350 of every 10,000 (3.5%) female students on a college campus will be raped each academic year (Fisher, 2000). 
  • women in college are at greater risk for rape and other forms of sexual assault than women in the general population or in a comparable age group (DeKeseredy, 1993; Koss, 1987). 
  • One in every four women will be a survivor of rape or attempted rape by the time they graduate from college (Warshaw, 1994).
  • A university study found that of those identifying as lesbian, gay, and bisexual students 42.4% (30.6% female and 11.8% male) and 21.4% of the heterosexual-identifying students (17.8% female and 3.6% male) indicated they had been forced to have sex against their will (Duncan et al., 1990).
  • Rape is the most common violent crime on American college campuses today (Sampson, 2002)
  • Women in college are at greater risk for rape and other forms of sexual assault than women in the general population or in a comparable age group (DeKeseredy, 1993; Koss, 1987).   
  • Nearly 60% of completed rapes that occur on a college campus take place in a survivor’s residence, 31% in other on-campus living quarters, and 10.3% in a fraternity (house). (The Sexual Victimization of College Women, National Institute of Justice, 2000)
College Perpetrators
  • In one study, 1 in 12 (8%) college-aged men admitted to acts that met the legal definitions of rape (Warshaw, 1994). 
  • 35% of college men indicated some likelihood that they would force a woman to engage in sexual activity if they could be assured of not getting caught (Parrot, 1991).
  • As many as 75% of college men are uncomfortable with other men’s sexist behavior (Sampson, 2002).
  • 51% of college males admit perpetrating one or more sexual assault incidents during college (Berkowitz, 1992).