Empire Beauty
School-Spring Lake Park
For-profit College in Spring Lake Park, MN. Median 10-year earnings $23,925.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $23,925, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Graduates leave owing a median of $13,000 — modest by four-year standards.
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. Retention is weak: only 57% of full-time first-years return, so roughly two in five leave after one year. The part-time picture is harder: 42% return, against 57% full-time. The student-faculty ratio is 17:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 134 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $17,626 annually once grants are applied. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($17,329 versus $22,841), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. About 63% get grants averaging $5,105, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price. 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 · 59 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 | $17,329 |
| $30–48k | $15,106 |
| $48–75k | $17,774 |
| $75–110k | $22,685 |
| $110k+ | $22,841 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 72 of these 134 students, totalling $571,456 — an average of $7,937 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Anoka County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026