College Grades and Criteria

Grading Criteria

A = 100% tobacco-free campus policy (no tobacco use of any kind allowed anywhere on college property or in college vehicles). Although prohibiting e-cigarettes is strongly recommended and is the preferred policy, it was not included as an A grade when the criteria was originally developed and shared with colleges.

B = 100% smoke-free campus policy (no smoking allowed anywhere on college property or in college vehicles);

C = allow smoking in designated areas such as smoking huts, a parking lot, or other limited areas;

D = all other campuses with few (if any) outdoor restrictions such as those with smoke-free building entranceways or smoke-free perimeters around buildings.

I (Incomplete) = campuses that are in the process of establishing smoke-free and/or tobacco-free policies as evidenced by an active, administration-supported policy implementation committee.

Alphabetized College Grades as of July 1, 2015.

 *Pluses and minuses were derived from a policy compliance score applied to colleges reporting a tobacco-free or smoke-free policy.