Empire Beauty School-Lebanon
For-profit College in Lebanon, PA. Median 10-year earnings $22,377.
Students who entered Empire Beauty School-Lebanon reach a median of $22,377 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $10,667.
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 is strong at 100%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. The 13:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. As a for-profit short-program school, outcomes here deserve a harder look than the sector average suggests: for-profit institutions vary enormously, and the sector's aggregate numbers hide both strong and very weak performers. This is a small school — 55 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 55 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $18,491 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Income makes less difference than usual: $18,906 at $0–30k, $23,524 at $110k+. 51% of students receive grant aid, averaging $5,412 — common but not automatic. About 51% borrow federally, roughly the national pattern.
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 · 32 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 | $18,906 |
| $30–48k | $16,954 |
| $48–75k | $18,888 |
| $75–110k | $23,524 |
| $110k+ | $23,524 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 28 of these 55 students, totalling $216,417 — an average of $7,729 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Lebanon 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)