2025 Compare Cities Education:
East Lansing, MI vs Mesa, AZ

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Highlights
- Mesa spends 31.2% less per student than East Lansing.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 7.2% higher in Mesa than in East Lansing. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Mesa had 7.4% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to East Lansing
 East Lansing, MIMesa, AZUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$10,564$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,728  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$4,810$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio17.02  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock23484573
 Students per Counselor726  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock3.9%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.1.2%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock90.4%88.9%
 Some College Educ.14.0%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock9.4%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.68.3%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock7.3%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 Mesa    61 Reviews

Mesa is a really good city despite some trouble with Superstition Springs and the failure that is Fiesta Mall, there is nice areas throughout and some areas that need to  More

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Over 2 years ago

As someone who was born in Mesa and has lived here in the 85210 in Dobson Ranch for the last 13 years after moving out from Chandler. I can tell you that most of the  More

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I’m a native to Arizona and growing up here has taught me that people just don’t care, and the Mormon community is huge! It’s normal in the state of AZ for kids to start  More

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