2025 Compare Cities Education:
East Lansing, MI vs Fresno, CA

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Highlights
- Fresno spends 0.5% more per student than East Lansing.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 25.6% higher in Fresno than in East Lansing. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Fresno had 19.1% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to East Lansing
 East Lansing, MIFresno, CAUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$15,432$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,728  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$7,719$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio17.02  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock126164573
 Students per Counselor726  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock10.5%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.1.2%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock79.0%88.9%
 Some College Educ.14.0%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock9.6%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.68.3%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock4.9%9.3%
 Professional Degree7.5%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.9%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 Fresno    77 Reviews

I'm not gonna say this city is terrible, but it certainly has many issues that need to be taken care of and unfortunately the city council has done a poor job keeping up  More

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I've lived in Fresno my entire life and when I became an adult, I began to realize how much being a resident here really sucks, it might be cheaper than most other  More

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Lived here since 2002. I may be flamed for this, but.. total dump and I would rate 0 stars if I could. You only really move here to move out. As good as a gas stop.  More

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