Empire Beauty School-York
For-profit College in York, PA. Median 10-year earnings $23,921.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $23,921, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. 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. 81% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. The part-time picture is harder: 52% return, against 81% full-time. At 17:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. 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 151 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $17,883 annually once grants are applied. Income makes less difference than usual: $17,106 at $0–30k, $23,432 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 64% of students at an average of $5,291. About 54% borrow federally, roughly the national pattern.
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 · 48 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 | $17,106 |
| $30–48k | $19,195 |
| $48–75k | $18,944 |
| $75–110k | $23,432 |
| $110k+ | $23,432 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 82 of these 151 students, totalling $670,519 — an average of $8,177 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (York County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026