Empire Beauty School-Maine
For-profit College in Bangor, ME. Median 10-year earnings $23,925.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $23,925, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Graduates leave owing a median of $13,000 — modest by four-year standards.
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
- ! Mobility score 0.0 — limited economic uplift documented
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. 64% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in three are gone before sophomore year. Part-time students fare worse, returning at 33% — relevant if you plan to work while enrolled. At 18:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 149 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $15,926 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($15,026 versus $20,926), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 58% of students at an average of $5,317. Most students borrow — 57% 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 · 59 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 | $15,026 |
| $30–48k | $13,931 |
| $48–75k | $16,899 |
| $75–110k | $20,601 |
| $110k+ | $20,926 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 85 of these 149 students, totalling $620,492 — an average of $7,300 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Penobscot 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)