Empire Beauty School-Morrow
For-profit College in Morrow, GA. Median 10-year earnings $24,397.
Ten-year median earnings of $24,397 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. 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
This institution reports no six-year graduation rate. The federal measure only follows first-time, full-time students, so schools built around part-time or transfer enrollment often fall outside it entirely. Just 49% of first-years come back — most of the completion gap opens in year one. Unusually, part-time retention (60%) beats full-time, pointing to a student body that is part-time by design. 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 398 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $16,924 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Income makes less difference than usual: $16,504 at $0–30k, $21,268 at $110k+. 70% of students receive grant aid, averaging $5,132 — common but not automatic. 54% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
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 · 142 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 | $16,504 |
| $30–48k | $16,920 |
| $48–75k | $17,619 |
| $75–110k | $20,763 |
| $110k+ | $21,268 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 215 of these 398 students, totalling $1,800,433 — an average of $8,374 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Clayton County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026