Empire Beauty School-Aurora
For-profit College in Aurora, CO. Median 10-year earnings $24,022.
Students who entered Empire Beauty School-Aurora reach a median of $24,022 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
The federal six-year graduation rate is not published here — typically because the entering cohort this measure follows is too small or too atypical to report. Treat completion as unknown rather than assuming either direction. Just 57% of first-years come back — most of the completion gap opens in year one. Retention drops to 33% for part-time students, a gap worth weighing if full-time study is not realistic. The student-faculty ratio is 19:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 137 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $17,508 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Income makes less difference than usual: $17,391 at $0–30k, $22,990 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 57% of students at an average of $5,338. About 44% borrow federally, roughly the national pattern.
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 · 47 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 | $17,391 |
| $30–48k | $18,793 |
| $48–75k | $19,292 |
| $75–110k | $22,990 |
| $110k+ | $22,990 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 60 of these 137 students, totalling $489,010 — an average of $8,150 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Arapahoe County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
Probation or Equivalent or More Severe Status: Monitoring (Other - Provide unlisted or multiple justifications); School has an accreditation issue
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)