Empire Beauty School-Milwaukee
For-profit College in Milwaukee, WI. Median 10-year earnings $23,589.
Ten-year median earnings of $23,589 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Graduates leave owing a median of $10,231 — 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
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. Just 48% of first-years come back — most of the completion gap opens in year one. The student-faculty ratio is 21:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 198 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $16,101 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Income makes less difference than usual: $15,835 at $0–30k, $20,542 at $110k+. 66% of students receive grant aid, averaging $4,068 — common but not automatic. Federal borrowing reaches 53% 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 · 97 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 | $15,835 |
| $30–48k | $16,330 |
| $48–75k | $17,864 |
| $75–110k | $14,709 |
| $110k+ | $20,542 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 105 of these 198 students, totalling $692,345 — an average of $6,594 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Milwaukee 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)