Empire Beauty
School-West Greensboro
For-profit College in Greensboro, NC. Median 10-year earnings $24,407.
Students who entered Empire Beauty School-West Greensboro reach a median of $24,407 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Median debt at graduation is $13,583, 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
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 54% of first-years come back — most of the completion gap opens in year one. Retention drops to 36% for part-time students, a gap worth weighing if full-time study is not realistic. 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 214 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $16,871 annually once grants are applied. Income makes less difference than usual: $16,759 at $0–30k, $22,583 at $110k+. 72% of students receive grant aid, averaging $5,410 — common but not automatic. Most students borrow — 58% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 83 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 | $16,759 |
| $30–48k | $16,180 |
| $48–75k | $17,631 |
| $75–110k | $19,610 |
| $110k+ | $22,583 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 125 of these 214 students, totalling $1,056,600 — an average of $8,453 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Guilford 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)