Empire Beauty School-Augusta
For-profit College in Augusta, GA. Median 10-year earnings $23,921.
Students who entered Empire Beauty School-Augusta reach a median of $23,921 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Median debt at graduation is $10,667, a light load against those earnings.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
This institution reports no six-year graduation rate. The federal measure only follows first-time, full-time students, so schools built around part-time or transfer enrollment often fall outside it entirely. Retention is weak: only 50% of full-time first-years return, so roughly one in two leave after one year. Retention drops to 18% for part-time students, a gap worth weighing if full-time study is not realistic. At 17:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. As a for-profit short-program school, outcomes here deserve a harder look than the sector average suggests: for-profit institutions vary enormously, and the sector's aggregate numbers hide both strong and very weak performers.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 138 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $16,721 annually once grants are applied. Income makes less difference than usual: $16,503 at $0–30k, $22,611 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 71% of students at an average of $5,641. Most students borrow — 57% take federal loans to cover the gap.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 63 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $16,503 |
| $30–48k | $17,527 |
| $48–75k | $16,891 |
| $75–110k | $20,788 |
| $110k+ | $22,611 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 79 of these 138 students, totalling $665,779 — an average of $8,428 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Richmond County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026