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Empire Beauty School-Avondale

For-profit College in Avondale, AZ. Median 10-year earnings $23,589.

Verdict Mixed outcomes
Empire Beauty School-Avondale · Campus
Median earnings · 10 yr
$23,589
Median debt at grad
$10,231
Federal loan default
0%

Students who entered Empire Beauty School-Avondale reach a median of $23,589 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $10,231.

Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.

Green Flags
  • 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Red Flags

Academics

Full-time retention
77%
Transfer-out rate
Student:faculty
17:1

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. 77% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in four are gone before sophomore year. Part-time students fare worse, returning at 40% — relevant if you plan to work while enrolled. The student-faculty ratio is 17:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major.

Financial Aid

Average net price
$15,464
Full-time, first-time undergraduates paying the in-state rate who were awarded grant or scholarship aid
% receiving grants
60%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
49%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 349 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

Average net price after grant aid is $15,464 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($14,530 versus $20,905), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 60% of students receive grant aid, averaging $5,423 — common but not automatic. 49% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.

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.

% receiving grants
62%
Average grant
$5,655

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 130 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 $14,530
$30–48k $15,810
$48–75k $17,563
$75–110k $20,757
$110k+ $20,905

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Federal student loans went to 172 of these 349 students, totalling $1,266,363 — an average of $7,363 each.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Local housing costs

Typical rents near campus (Maricopa County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.

Studio
$1,457/mo
1 bedroom
$1,583/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$1,839/mo

HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026

Veterans & GI Bill

GI Bill students
10
Yellow Ribbon
No
Principles of Excellence
Yes

VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)

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How we evaluate Empire Beauty School-Avondale

IPEDS
US Department of Education
College Scorecard
Post-grad earnings
Census PSEO
Earnings by major
Opportunity Insights
Mobility by institution
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