Perhaps it s not first on your list but the safety and security of your collegiate environment should be one of the issues you would like to have addressed before you leave campus. Generally speaking, it s a good idea to investigate safety the same way you would academic programs and professors. College information sessions or questioning the tour guide are appropriate places to address the issue.
Different universities handle safety differently-often times based on location.
As you might expect, if a college is located in a major city it might be more aggressive about the issue than a school in the suburbs. As a result, they are often more pro-active than reactive. As you ll see when you visit, most colleges devote a significant amount of resources to issues of safety and security. Their response time is incredibly fast-in the neighborhood of twenty seconds or less. I was taking a group of sixth graders on a tour of a college when one of them hit the button as a prank.