Empire Beauty School-Kennesaw
For-profit College in Kennesaw, GA. Median 10-year earnings $23,589.
Ten-year median earnings of $23,589 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. 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.
- ✓ 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. Retention of 73% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. Retention drops to 31% for part-time students, a gap worth weighing if full-time study is not realistic. The student-faculty ratio is 18:1 — 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 281 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $14,948 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Net price varies modestly by income — $14,696 at $0–30k against $20,949 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. 68% of students receive grant aid, averaging $5,235 — common but not automatic. Most students borrow — 55% 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 · 74 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 | $14,696 |
| $30–48k | $15,923 |
| $48–75k | $14,179 |
| $75–110k | $17,006 |
| $110k+ | $20,949 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 154 of these 281 students, totalling $1,197,304 — an average of $7,775 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Cobb 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)