2025 Compare Cities Education:
East Lansing, MI vs Champaign, IL

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Highlights
- Champaign spends 33.3% more per student than East Lansing.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 21.2% lower in Champaign than in East Lansing. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Champaign had 3.7% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to East Lansing
 East Lansing, MIChampaign, ILUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$20,461$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,728  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$9,155$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio17.02  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock6624573
 Students per Counselor726  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock1.6%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.1.2%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock94.1%88.9%
 Some College Educ.14.0%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock7.2%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.68.3%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock19.1%9.3%
 Professional Degree7.5%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock8.1%1.5%
Reviews for East Lansing    4 Reviews

East Lansing is a wonderful, lively, youthful college town that has gotten better over time. You feel the strong Spartan Spirit everywhere as students, alumni and locals  More

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East Lansing is noted for being the home of one of the first Land Grant colleges -- Michigan State University. MSU has an large campus with an enormous area of land  More

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Over 17 years ago

East Lansing is a very pretty town. The town has had frequent problems with student rioters. Overall 60% of the town is composed of students. I would recommend East  More

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Reviews for Champaign    13 Reviews

Over 6 years ago

Pros - close to Chicago, has Parkland community college and lots of places to eat. There is a train station downtown that is really good. Beautiful deciduous trees and  More

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Over 8 years ago

I wonderful city with great  More

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Actually it's barely a nice place to live. The pros: Not terribly expensive - at one point the least expensive place to live in the country among modest sized  More

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