2025 Compare Cities Education:
East Lansing, MI vs Grand Rapids, MI

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Highlights
- Grand Rapids spends 4.5% less per student than East Lansing.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 0.1% lower in Grand Rapids than in East Lansing. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Grand Rapids had 9.3% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to East Lansing
 East Lansing, MIGrand Rapids, MIUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$14,664$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,728  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,936$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio17.02  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock11244573
 Students per Counselor726  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock5.4%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.1.2%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock88.7%88.9%
 Some College Educ.14.0%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock7.6%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.68.3%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock9.7%9.3%
 Professional Degree7.5%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock1.4%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 Grand Rapids    62 Reviews

I've lived in Grand Rapids about 85% of my life and can confidently say it is a great place to live for anyone. I know countless people who dogged the city, moved  More

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Grand Rapids proper - the small city - is fairly OK. Nothing special stands out about it when judged against the nicer areas of the US, but it has some decent dining and  More

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Wow. “bland Rapids and everyone is Smug, uptight and part of the Christian Reformed Church. “ Someone is accurately describing Grand Rapids in 1985. Much has changed  More

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