Empire Beauty School-Laconia
For-profit College in Laconia, NH. Median 10-year earnings $33,546.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $33,546, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Graduates leave owing a median of $7,942 — modest by four-year standards.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.24 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 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. 77% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in four are gone before sophomore year. At 16:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. Being a for-profit short-program school is the single most useful context for these numbers — the sector's spread is wide enough that the school-level figures matter more than usual.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 116 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $11,329 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Income makes less difference than usual: $11,382 at $0–30k, $12,896 at $75–110k. About 59% get grants averaging $5,813, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price. 53% 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.
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 | $11,382 |
| $30–48k | $9,574 |
| $48–75k | $8,902 |
| $75–110k | $12,896 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 61 of these 116 students, totalling $430,302 — an average of $7,054 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Belknap 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)