The Colleges With The Most On-Campus Drug And Alcohol Arrests
A great set of maps from Rehabs.com shows where college students face the most arrests for drugs and alcohol.
"We wanted to find interesting data that's been under-explored," Drugs on Campus project head Jon Millward told Business Insider. Many of the previously existing reports on campus drug use were "more surface," Millward said.
The information on these maps comes from the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education, which only tracks campus crime reports, not those from the surrounding area. According to the Rehabs.com report, maps offer a distinct way of looking at campus drug cultures:
The map and list of most on-campus drug arrests seem to cluster around the Midwest and the Northeast, a grouping which stays consistent for much of the Rehabs.com report:
And here are the schools with the most on-campus alcohol arrests:
Rehabs.com also put together this graphic showing the top 20 schools where these trends overlap. Note how many of these schools are part of the University of Wisconsin system:
You can see how these maps compare to other statewide drug and alcohol statistics here >>