2025 Compare Cities Education:
East Lansing, MI vs Poughkeepsie, NY

Change Cities
Highlights
- Poughkeepsie spends 84.8% more per student than East Lansing.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 26.9% lower in Poughkeepsie than in East Lansing. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Poughkeepsie had 10.3% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to East Lansing
 East Lansing, MIPoughkeepsie, NYUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$28,380$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,728  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$16,100$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio17.02  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock9054573
 Students per Counselor726  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock4.6%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.1.2%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock87.6%88.9%
 Some College Educ.14.0%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.9%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.68.3%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock10.0%9.3%
 Professional Degree7.5%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock1.1%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

   |    Reply

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

   |    Reply

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

   |    Reply

Start Your Review of East Lansing

Reviews for Poughkeepsie    10 Reviews

Over 7 years ago

I have mixed feelings about Poughkeepsie because there are equally as many things I love about that town as there are things I hate about it so I'm just going to write a  More

   |    Reply

Over 12 years ago

Prices are high here. housing is easily 25-30percent of our monthly  More

   |    Reply

Over 13 years ago

It'd be great if jobs were available. This city is OK but COL is so much higher in NY than where I was raised in South Maybe I should head  More

   |    Reply

Start Your Review of Poughkeepsie


Premium Subscription
Includes Cost of Living compares for child care, utilities, transportation, health, taxes, housing for home owners vs renters, weather, insurance premiums and so much more.


The premier source for comprehensive city data for over 30 years.

© Best Places. All rights reserved.