2025 Compare Cities Education:
East Lansing, MI vs Santa Fe, NM

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Highlights
- Santa Fe spends 1.4% less per student than East Lansing.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 9.9% lower in Santa Fe than in East Lansing. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Santa Fe had 8.1% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to East Lansing
 East Lansing, MISanta Fe, NMUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$15,138$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,728  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$6,510$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio17.02  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock14984573
 Students per Counselor726  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock5.7%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.1.2%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock89.9%88.9%
 Some College Educ.14.0%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock7.4%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.68.3%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock14.2%9.3%
 Professional Degree7.5%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock3.9%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 Santa Fe    55 Reviews

I’ve recently moved to Santa Fe from Colorado. I love Santa Fe for various reasons… mostly because of the tricultural aspects of it. We have amazing Native American,  More

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Over 6 years ago

Bought a house here in 2013 and split my time here with other house in Adirondack Mountains of NYS. Santa Fe is great, but not perfect. Love the climate. 306 days of  More

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Over 6 years ago

The only 2 things about Santa Fe that are nice is the scenery and the weather. But, those two things cannot bring about the total comfort and homeyness that makes a city  More

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