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East Lansing, MI vs New York, NY

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Highlights
- New York spends 22.8% more per student than East Lansing.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 25.1% lower in New York than in East Lansing. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- New York had 14.9% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to East Lansing
 East Lansing, MINew York, NYUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$18,855$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,728  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$8,968$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio17.02  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock1003464573
 Students per Counselor726  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock8.9%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.1.2%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock83.2%88.9%
 Some College Educ.14.0%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock6.5%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.68.3%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock11.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree7.5%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock1.6%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 New York    330 Reviews

I'm from the South and the perception I had was that New York was a filthy slum full of sketchy people and crime. I visited it, and it's actually on the other end of the  More

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New York City is crazy Great there are to many things to do and see in NYC for anyone to ever complain about the city other than most Of the population with stacked on  More

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Over 4 years ago

filthy. deplorable. weak character. the people of new york aren't classy, they're not even decent. rude, obnoxious, arrogant, and smug, and to make it all worse there's  More

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