Empire Beauty
School-Stone Park
For-profit College in Stone Park, IL. Median 10-year earnings $24,407.
Students who entered Empire Beauty School-Stone Park reach a median of $24,407 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $13,583.
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. Just 52% of first-years come back — most of the completion gap opens in year one. At 21:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. 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.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 203 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $16,777 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The gap between the $0–30k and $75–110k bands is narrow ($16,624 versus $22,537), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 69% of students receive grant aid, averaging $5,517 — common but not automatic. Borrowing is widespread: 56% take federal loans.
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 · 84 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 | $16,624 |
| $30–48k | $16,157 |
| $48–75k | $17,291 |
| $75–110k | $22,537 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 114 of these 203 students, totalling $933,233 — an average of $8,186 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Cook 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)