Empire Beauty
School-North Hills
For-profit College in Pittsburgh, PA. Median 10-year earnings $22,377.
Students who entered Empire Beauty School-North Hills reach a median of $22,377 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $10,667.
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. 81% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. The 13:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. 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.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 118 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $17,914 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($17,344 versus $23,433), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 74% of students at an average of $4,562. Most students borrow — 69% 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 · 32 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 | $17,344 |
| $30–48k | $16,038 |
| $48–75k | $18,238 |
| $75–110k | $22,933 |
| $110k+ | $23,433 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 82 of these 118 students, totalling $643,240 — an average of $7,844 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Allegheny 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)