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East Lansing, MI vs Shawnee, OK

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Highlights
- Shawnee spends 33.4% less per student than East Lansing.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 11.0% lower in Shawnee than in East Lansing. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Shawnee had 9.0% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to East Lansing
 East Lansing, MIShawnee, OKUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$10,222$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$11,728  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$5,411$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio17.02  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock4714573
 Students per Counselor726  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock2.5%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.1.2%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock88.9%88.9%
 Some College Educ.14.0%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.3%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 Shawnee    7 Reviews

I have lived in Shawnee for almost 4 years. It is a poor town. Yes, it has a Christian University (OBU) but the college does not influence the town much. St Gregory's  More

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I think this might have been ok, but I needed a different approach. I could have rented a place here - had some very open landlords that had some decent, affordable  More

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Over 16 years ago

I've lived in Shawnee for 23 years now and my family has been here since statehood in 1907. I find that Shawnee is a delightful town to live in! It has all of your basic  More

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