Empire Beauty School-Harrisburg
About
Empire Beauty School-Harrisburg is a vocational institution located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It focuses on programs in cosmetology, esthetics, and nail technology. Specific founding year information is not provided, and the size of the institution is also not mentioned.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Non-Pell students graduate at a 31.0-point higher rate than Pell recipients.
Tuition & cost
What families actually pay, broken down by family income.
Net price by family income
Negative values mean aid exceeds the published cost of attendance for that income band.
Student loan default rate
The share of student borrowers who default on federal loans within three years, against the national benchmark.
Of 960 borrowers who entered repayment, 36 (3.7%) defaulted within three years — above the 2.3% national rate.
Default rate vs national, by cohort
* Cohorts 2020 and later read near 0% because the federal COVID-19 payment pause (CARES Act) suspended defaults nationwide. These years reflect a national policy, not institutional performance; the 2019 cohort is the last measured under normal repayment.
Academic programs at Empire
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Enrollment trends & demographics
Fall headcount, 12-month unduplicated enrollment, and student body composition.
Gender split
Race / ethnicity composition
Campus safety & crime statistics
Reported on-campus crimes over the last three years, including violence and hate crimes.
3-year trend
Criminal offenses by type
By location
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
No hate crimes reported.
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
Empire vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Empire selected for federal comparison reporting.
A larger shape on any axis means this institution outperforms its peers on that dimension. For acceptance rate and net price, lower raw values are inverted so "more selective" and "more affordable" appear larger.
| Carnegie | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectEmpire Beauty School-Harrisburg | 72% | — | 152 | $17,299 | — |
Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute Seattle | — | 92.9% | 154 | $30,692 | — |
Aveda Institute-Portland | — | — | 238 | $12,108 | — |
Capri College-Davenport | — | — | 135 | $12,882 | — |
College of Hair Design-East Campus | — | — | 125 | $14,649 | — |
Denmark College | — | — | 175 | $14,312 | — |
Elite School of Cosmetology | — | — | 200 | $22,462 | — |
Empire Beauty School-Cincinnati | — | — | 168 | $16,707 | — |
Empire Beauty School-Maine | — | — | 117 | $16,411 | — |
Kenneth Shuler School of Cosmetology-Goose Creek | — | — | 152 | $15,092 | — |
Model College of Hair Design | — | — | 199 | $17,740 | — |
My Le's Beauty College | — | — | 110 | $12,990 | — |
Northwest College-Eugene | — | — | 139 | $25,401 | — |
Parisian Spa Institute | — | — | 61 | $8,710 | — |
Paul Mitchell the School-Cleveland | — | — | 181 | $20,344 | — |
Paul Mitchell the School-Columbus | — | — | 200 | $18,169 | — |
Paul Mitchell the School-Knoxville | — | — | 87 | $21,558 | — |
Paul Mitchell the School-Missouri Columbia | — | — | 107 | $16,681 | — |
Paul Mitchell the School-Orlando | — | — | 174 | $18,877 | — |
Paul Mitchell the School-Phoenix | — | — | 137 | $18,308 | — |
Paul Mitchell the School-Raleigh | — | — | 130 | $17,979 | — |
PCI Academy-Iowa City | — | — | 113 | $18,648 | — |
PCI Academy-Plymouth | — | — | 165 | $15,865 | — |
Raphael's School of Beauty Culture Inc-Niles | — | — | 172 | $19,489 | — |
Robert Fiance Beauty Schools | — | — | 310 | $29,356 | — |
Summit Salon Academy Kansas City | — | — | 157 | $19,679 | — |
TC Beauty | — | — | 100 | $12,559 | — |
The Beauty Institute | — | — | 70 | $15,131 | — |
The Chrysm Institute of Esthetics | — | — | 271 | $19,130 | — |
The Temple-A Paul Mitchell Partner School | — | — | 140 | $28,358 | — |
VICI Beauty School | — | — | 109 | $12,721 | — |
| Peer group median | 72% | 92.9% | 152 | $17,740 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
Grants & funding (5)
Federal grant awards and open funding opportunities awarded to this institution.
- opportunityEmpire Beauty School Gives Back Cosmetology Educational Endowment ProgramEmpire Beauty Schoolinstitution_site$3,000
- opportunityBeauty Schools Marketing Group ScholarshipBeauty Schools Marketing Groupinstitution_site$2,500
- opportunityEmpire Beauty School Good Attendance ScholarshipEmpire Beauty Schoolinstitution_site$1,000
- opportunityEmpire Beauty School High School ScholarshipEmpire Beauty Schoolinstitution_site$1,000
- opportunityThe Alice Madden Barton Scholarship ProgramGreat Clipsinstitution_site
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