Empire Beauty School-Midlothian
For-profit College in Midlothian, VA. Median 10-year earnings $23,921.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $23,921, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. 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
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 71% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. At 18:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. 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 — 153 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 153 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $23,619 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($22,745 versus $27,708), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 56% of students receive grant aid, averaging $4,785 — common but not automatic. Federal borrowing reaches 50% of students.
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 · 52 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 | $22,745 |
| $30–48k | $26,881 |
| $48–75k | $25,926 |
| $75–110k | $28,044 |
| $110k+ | $27,708 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 76 of these 153 students, totalling $613,157 — an average of $8,068 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Chesterfield 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)