Empire Beauty School-Hanover
For-profit College in Hanover, PA. Median 10-year earnings $24,407.
Students who entered Empire Beauty School-Hanover reach a median of $24,407 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $13,583.
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
No six-year graduation rate is reported for this institution, which is common for schools whose students are mostly part-time, transfer in, or enroll in short programs that the federal cohort measure does not track. Its absence is not itself a bad sign, but it does remove the clearest completion signal. Retention of 73% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. At 16:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. 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.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 86 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $16,505 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Income makes less difference than usual: $14,561 at $0–30k, $20,312 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 60% of students at an average of $5,213. Most students borrow — 58% 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 · 48 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 | $14,561 |
| $30–48k | $16,221 |
| $48–75k | $19,867 |
| $75–110k | $19,069 |
| $110k+ | $20,312 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 50 of these 86 students, totalling $346,510 — an average of $6,930 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (York County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)