Empire Beauty School-Warwick
For-profit College in Providence, RI. Median 10-year earnings $23,589.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $23,589, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $10,231.
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. 79% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in five are gone before sophomore year. At 14:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. 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.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 221 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $22,574 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Net price varies modestly by income — $21,673 at $0–30k against $27,612 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. Grant aid reaches 61% of students at an average of $4,401. 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 · 101 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 | $21,673 |
| $30–48k | $20,932 |
| $48–75k | $25,571 |
| $75–110k | $26,738 |
| $110k+ | $27,612 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 111 of these 221 students, totalling $763,685 — an average of $6,880 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Providence 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 (Concerns about issues affecting academic quality); School has an accreditation issue
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)