Empire Beauty School-Pineville
For-profit College in Charlotte, NC. Median 10-year earnings $23,925.
Ten-year median earnings of $23,925 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $13,000.
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. 62% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about two in five are gone before sophomore year. A 16:1 ratio is unremarkable; expect a mix of lecture halls and seminars. This is a for-profit short-program school. That is not disqualifying, but it does mean verifying accreditation, transferability of credits, and job-placement claims directly rather than trusting the category. This is a small school — 119 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 119 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $15,672 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($15,534 versus $20,769), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 61% of students at an average of $5,454. 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 · 56 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 | $15,534 |
| $30–48k | $15,078 |
| $48–75k | $18,043 |
| $75–110k | $17,457 |
| $110k+ | $20,769 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 60 of these 119 students, totalling $472,814 — an average of $7,880 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Mecklenburg 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)