Harvard may not be the safest campus in America, but it is twice as safe as Yale, a new study reports.

The study, conducted by an online news agency, APBnews, and a Pennsylvania consulting firm, the CAP Index, studied the likelihood students would be victims of violent crime on campus and in the surrounding neighborhoods.

But some of the schools that fared poorly in the report criticized the study for focusing on those neighborhoods rather than on-campus crime.

Harvard was ranked the 541st most dangerous out of the 1,497 campuses studied. The school earned a seven on a "risk scale" of one to ten, the survey reported.

APBnews editors said that meant

Harvard students face about double the average national risk of being victims of violent crime, according to the study.

Harvard fared well for a school in an urban area, and the University was ranked safer than other Ivy League schools with city campuses, said Robert Port, senior editor for APBnews.

The University of Pennsylvania, was ranked 41st most dangerous campus, and Columbia University, was ranked 43. Yale finished 182. All three schools were ranked a 9 on the risk scale--the second highest ranking.