Empire Beauty School-Reading
About
Empire Beauty School-Reading is a beauty school located in Reading, Pennsylvania. The school focuses on a variety of beauty programs, including cosmetology, esthetics, and nail technology, although the founding year is not specified.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Pell recipients graduate at a higher rate than non-Pell students here — unusual and worth investigating.
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 979 borrowers who entered repayment, 47 (4.8%) 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 Beauty School-Reading
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 Beauty School-Reading vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Empire Beauty School-Reading 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-Reading | 82% | — | 90 | $18,390 | — |
A Better U Beauty Barber Academy | — | — | 46 | $18,460 | — |
Academy of Salon Professionals | — | — | 50 | $15,071 | — |
Cloyd's Beauty School 1 Inc | — | — | 48 | $5,902 | — |
Del-Mar-Va Beauty Academy | — | — | 32 | $25,617 | — |
Diamond Beauty College | — | — | 67 | $9,494 | — |
Florida Academy of Health & Beauty | — | — | 54 | $9,457 | — |
Hair Arts Institute | — | — | 38 | $23,666 | — |
International College of Beauty Arts & Sciences | — | — | 62 | $21,390 | — |
Iowa School of Beauty-Sioux City | — | — | 67 | $9,798 | — |
Kaizen Beauty Academy | — | — | 95 | — | — |
Lowell Academy Hairstyling Institute | — | — | 66 | $16,686 | — |
Makana Esthetics Wellness Academy | — | — | 50 | $14,133 | — |
Midwest Barber College | — | — | — | $18,236 | — |
Moler Hollywood Beauty Academy | — | — | 73 | $9,962 | — |
Montgomery Beauty School | — | — | 101 | $20,589 | — |
North Florida Cosmetology Institute | — | — | 91 | $16,320 | — |
Omega Institute of Cosmetology | — | — | 55 | $10,667 | — |
Orlo School of Hair Design and Cosmetology | — | — | 56 | $16,864 | — |
Paramount Beauty Academy | — | — | 51 | $17,877 | — |
Paul Mitchell the School-NYC | — | — | 96 | $19,024 | — |
Premiere Aesthetics Institute | — | — | 45 | $12,404 | — |
Searcy Beauty College | — | — | 54 | $15,106 | — |
The Academy of Hair Design Six | — | — | 37 | $19,488 | — |
The Salon Professional Academy-Huntsville | — | — | 53 | $19,115 | — |
The University of Aesthetics & Cosmetology | — | — | 39 | $16,241 | — |
Top Nails & Hair Beauty School | — | — | 92 | — | — |
Trend Barber College | — | — | 30 | $15,398 | — |
Trend Setters School | — | — | 65 | $9,460 | — |
Vaughn Beauty College | — | — | 63 | $8,752 | — |
| Peer group median | 82% | — | 55 | $16,281 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
Grants & funding (2)
Federal grant awards and open funding opportunities awarded to this institution.
Frequently asked questions about Empire Beauty School-Reading
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