Empire Beauty School-Rochester
For-profit College in Rochester, NY. Median 10-year earnings $24,022.
Students who entered Empire Beauty School-Rochester reach a median of $24,022 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. 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
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 is 68% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. A 12:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. 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. At 142 undergraduates, expect a small, closely-held student body.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 142 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $16,884 annually once grants are applied. The gap between the $0–30k and $75–110k bands is narrow ($16,430 versus $21,972), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 68% of students receive grant aid, averaging $5,414 — common but not automatic. 61% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
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 · 52 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 | $16,430 |
| $30–48k | $16,784 |
| $48–75k | $18,706 |
| $75–110k | $21,972 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 86 of these 142 students, totalling $691,714 — an average of $8,043 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Monroe County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
Probation or Equivalent or More Severe Status: Monitoring (Other - Provide unlisted or multiple justifications); School has an accreditation issue
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)