Get the facts about hazing on your campus: Campus Hazing Database
You can now look up hazing data for any college or university in the United States using HazingInfo.org’s newly expanded Campus Hazing Database.
As students head back to school starting this month, HazingInfo has added 41 new states plus Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico to our existing hazing database of nine states, creating a new one-stop resource of hazing information for every campus in America.
That’s 50 states, 1,478 campuses — and one place to find out about college hazing at HazingInfo.org, the nation’s first free, comprehensive database of campus hazing incidents.
It’s our latest step toward making college hazing data more transparent and easier to find for students and families.
Our ultimate goal: End hazing by exposing hazing incidents and bringing hazing out of the shadows.
We gathered data from every school’s website along with recent media reports about college hazing to create a searchable database. Look up your campus to find its:
Taken together, this information paints a picture of how each college and university prioritizes hazing prevention and hazing transparency.
It’s a milestone nearly two years in the making for HazingInfo, founded in 2023 by Jolayne Houtz and Hector Martinez. They are the parents of Sam Martinez, a 19-year-old freshman at Washington State University who died following a fraternity hazing ritual in 2019.
The Houtz-Martinez family formed a partnership with the research organization StopHazing.org; the University of Washington Information School; and the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development to create HazingInfo.org in Sam’s memory and help protect young people by bringing hazing incidents to light.
Every US college and university that receives federal funding is now required to have a hazing policy under the new federal Stop Campus Hazing Act.
Yet the new HazingInfo data shows that many schools still do not have a hazing policy. Many also fail to provide a process for students or others to report hazing incidents.
Campuses have until December 23 under the new law to publish their Campus Hazing Transparency Report to disclose reported hazing incidents. Some institutions have already started publishing their reports even before the deadline.
In nine states, colleges and universities are already required to publish their hazing incidents by state law. But a HazingInfo investigation this spring found that 50% of campuses in those states are failing to report hazing as required.
Even when campuses do provide their hazing information and policies online, it can require a lot of digging to find it on their websites.
For the past nine months, the HazingInfo team has tested several artificial intelligence tools to scour the internet for information on college hazing.
We used AI to do the preliminary search for data from each college and university, then hand-checked the results for each school to ensure accuracy.
Our HazingInfo staff, along with our team of UW data science students and hazing prevention interns at the research organization StopHazing.org, spent hundreds of hours double-checking each campus website.
Each campus listing on our website also includes a form that school administrators can submit to update or correct information on their page.
Many families of young men and women who have died from hazing tell a similar story: Before their student went to college, they searched online for information about hazing but found nothing.
HazingInfo exists to fill that information void.
We are committed to adding new hazing data as it becomes available. After the December 23 deadline for campuses to publish their transparency reports, we will update each school’s listing again to show which campuses are demonstrating a commitment to hazing prevention — and which are not.