Empire Beauty School-Manhattan
For-profit College in New York, NY. Median 10-year earnings $24,022.
Students who entered Empire Beauty School-Manhattan reach a median of $24,022 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Median debt at graduation is $10,667, a light load against those earnings.
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. First-year retention is 60% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. The student-faculty ratio is 22:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major. 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 655 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $18,647 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($18,392 versus $24,504), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 71% of students receive grant aid, averaging $5,486 — common but not automatic. 60% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
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 · 277 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 | $18,392 |
| $30–48k | $18,608 |
| $48–75k | $20,988 |
| $75–110k | $23,677 |
| $110k+ | $24,504 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 396 of these 655 students, totalling $3,207,134 — an average of $8,099 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (New 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
Probation or Equivalent or More Severe Status: Monitoring (Other - Provide unlisted or multiple justifications); School has an accreditation issue
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)