Empire Beauty School-Elizabethtown
For-profit College in Elizabethtown, KY. Median 10-year earnings $24,022.
Ten-year median earnings of $24,022 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. 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. 69% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in three are gone before sophomore year. The 25:1 student-faculty ratio is high, so large classes and limited faculty contact should be the expectation. This is a for-profit short-program school. That is not disqualifying, but it does mean verifying accreditation, transferability of credits, and job-placement claims directly rather than trusting the category. The undergraduate body is just 284, which shapes everything from class size to how often a required course is offered.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 284 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $16,442 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($15,769 versus $21,512), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 68% of students at an average of $4,743. Most students borrow — 63% 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 · 133 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 | $15,769 |
| $30–48k | $15,543 |
| $48–75k | $16,418 |
| $75–110k | $20,727 |
| $110k+ | $21,512 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 178 of these 284 students, totalling $1,302,958 — an average of $7,320 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Hardin 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)