2025 Compare Cities Education:
East Lansing, MI vs Newark, NJ

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Highlights
- Newark spends 72.3% more per student than East Lansing.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 19.9% lower in Newark than in East Lansing. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Newark had 21.2% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to East Lansing
 East Lansing, MINewark, NJUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$26,449$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,728  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$11,580$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio17.02  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock12374573
 Students per Counselor726  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock12.3%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.1.2%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock77.0%88.9%
 Some College Educ.14.0%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock5.9%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.68.3%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock3.4%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 Newark    26 Reviews

Over 4 years ago

Newark is straight garbage.  More

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Newark's Ironbound is extremely dangerous, there is a lot of crime, the police are just good at hiding it. It usually doesn't happen on Ferry St., but does 1/2 block  More

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Over 12 years ago

I have worked and lived in Newark for 20 years. I raised 3 children. Two of my children went on to college, graudated with Accountant Degree and the other one in  More

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