2025 Compare Cities Education:
East Lansing, MI vs Gary, IN

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Highlights
- Gary spends 15.0% less per student than East Lansing.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 0.2% lower in Gary than in East Lansing. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Gary had 11.9% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to East Lansing
 East Lansing, MIGary, INUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$13,054$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,728  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$5,605$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio17.02  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock4354573
 Students per Counselor726  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock3.8%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.1.2%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock86.1%88.9%
 Some College Educ.14.0%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.5%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.68.3%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock4.1%9.3%
 Professional Degree7.5%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.5%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 Gary    8 Reviews

Over 5 years ago

I've lived here for 5 years as a homeless gay drug addict, and I think this place is a real  More

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Over 10 years ago

Been here most of my life left and went to Air Force policies and elected residents are terrible not all there is a few that is really concerned but being that they say  More

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I lived in Gary in 1972 - 1976. I was just a kid but I loved Gary. My family moved to upstate NY and after college I moved to San Francisco, Ca. I will tell you this, I  More

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