Empire Beauty School-Peekskill
For-profit College in Peekskill, NY. Median 10-year earnings $27,916.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $27,916, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Median debt at graduation is $6,554, 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.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.23 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 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. First-year retention of 89% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. A 9:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. 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. This is a small school — 84 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 84 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $18,107 annually once grants are applied. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($17,124 versus $23,093), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid is limited — 46% of students receive any. Federal borrowing reaches 54% 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 · 34 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 | $17,124 |
| $30–48k | $19,220 |
| $48–75k | $18,448 |
| $75–110k | $22,950 |
| $110k+ | $23,093 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 45 of these 84 students, totalling $337,875 — an average of $7,508 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Westchester 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)