The primary purpose of this study was to assess the severity of abuse among college students and factors and relationships associated with this abuse. During the spring 2006, 615 undergraduate students enrolled in a general education health class from a large southeastern university were asked to participate in a health behavior study. Nearly all (609) completed the survey for a response rate of 99%. Of those 63% were female. Female students reported significantly greater abuse than male students on six of the eleven items studied. For example, 6.1% of females reported forced sexual intercourse compared to 2.2% of males (p<.05). When considering the perpetrator of the most severe abusive event, women (38%) most often reported abuse from a boyfriend and males (57%) were more likely to report abuse from people not known or acquaintances (p<.05). Most abuse was reported without either person drinking or taking drugs (64.7%), however, when drinking or drug taking was reported, it was primarily the perpetrator being the only person using (66%; p<.05). Stepwise analysis was used to establish the relationship between the independent variables and the most severe abusive event. For males, who the perpetrator was of the most severe abusive event was the only variable remaining in the calculation (p<.05). For females, it was whether there was drinking and drug use at the time of the most severe abusive event (p<.05). Implications for future programming will be discussed.Keyword(s): violence/prevention