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Hazing Statistics

LMU Spirit Mark

1.5 million

An estimated 1.5 million high school students experience hazing each year. 47% of students come to college hazing experience hazing. (Hoover & Pollard, 2000)

LMU Spirit Mark

74%

The percentage of student-athletes who experience at least one form of hazing while in college. The most frequently reported hazing behavior among student-athletes is participating in drinking games (47%). (Allan, E.J. & Madden, M., 2008)

LMU Spirit Mark

55%

The percentage of college students involved in fraternities, sororities, teams and other student organizations who experienced hazing. Only 1 in 10 labeled it hazing. (Allan, E.J. & Madden, M., 2008)

LMU Spirit Mark

71%

The percentage of students who witnessed hazing and indicated that alcohol was involved in some way. (WITH US Center for Bystander Intervention, 2020)

General Facts and Statistics:

  • Hazing occurs in sports teams, clubs, Greek life, cheerleading, honor societies and more
  • Hazing is often about power and control. Hazing does not build unity.
  • More than half of students in colleges and universities involved in clubs, sports teams and organizations have experienced hazing.
  • A significant number of hazing incidents and deaths involve alcohol consumption.
  • Students are more likely to be hazed if they knew an adult who was hazed.
  • 2 in 5 students say they are aware of hazing taking place on their campus.
  • Hazing occurs in middle schools, high schools and colleges.
  • Both male and female students report a high level of hazing.
  • More than half of college students are involved in some form of campus hazing.
  • In 95% of hazing cases, students who were aware they were hazed did not report it.
  • For every 10 students being hazed, only one of them realizes that they have been hazed.
  • In more than half of the hazing incidents, a member of the offending group posts pictures on a public web space.
  • Since 1970, there has been at least one hazing-related death on a college campus each year.

Athletics Facts and Statistics:

  • More than 250,000 students experienced some sort of hazing to join a college athletic team.
  • 50% of the female NCAA Division I athletes reported being hazed.
  • More than 20% of female NCAA athletes were subjected to alcohol-related hazing; however even a higher percentage admitted to “mental hazing."