Empire Beauty School-Rochester
About
Empire Beauty School-Rochester is a cosmetology school located in Rochester, New York. The institute focuses on various beauty programs, including cosmetology, esthetics, and nail technology. Specific founding year details are not mentioned, and the size of the student body is not specified.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Non-Pell students graduate at a 50.0-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 968 borrowers who entered repayment, 43 (4.4%) 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
- Public property1
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-Rochester | 61% | — | 67 | $17,701 | — |
Academy of Beauty Professionals | — | — | 53 | — | — |
Academy of Salon and Spa | — | — | 52 | $14,155 | — |
Arthur's Beauty College | — | — | 29 | $12,008 | — |
Aveda Institute Tucson-Avondale | — | — | 158 | $19,718 | — |
Bucks County School of Beauty Culture Inc | — | — | 82 | $20,792 | — |
Cosmetology Concepts Niles | — | — | 31 | $11,688 | — |
Cosmetology School of Arts & Sciences | — | — | 40 | $21,170 | — |
Creative Hair School of Cosmetology | — | — | 38 | $13,356 | — |
Denham Springs Beauty School | — | — | 89 | $10,597 | — |
Dolce The Academy | — | — | 44 | $11,539 | — |
Durant Institute of Hair Design | — | — | 41 | $15,709 | — |
Empire Beauty School-Littleton | — | — | 48 | $17,149 | — |
Empire Beauty School-Richmond | — | — | 77 | $17,079 | — |
Fredrick and Charles Beauty College | — | — | 69 | $14,402 | — |
French Academy of Cosmetology | — | — | 51 | $8,284 | — |
Hair Professionals Career College | — | — | 55 | $21,085 | — |
Hatfield's Mississippi College of Beauty Culture | — | — | 57 | $33,969 | — |
Josef's School of Hair, Skin & Body-Grand Forks | — | — | 61 | $14,324 | — |
Lindsey Institute of Cosmetology | — | — | 56 | $14,227 | — |
Moore Career College | — | — | — | $18,098 | — |
Neecee's Barber College | — | — | 32 | $18,256 | — |
Networks Barber College | — | — | 54 | $17,567 | — |
Northwest College-Beaverton | — | — | 37 | $20,162 | — |
Pinnacle Institute of Cosmetology | — | — | 18 | $16,894 | — |
Renaissance Beauty Academy | — | — | 66 | $11,600 | — |
Rosel School of Cosmetology | — | — | 55 | $7,356 | — |
Salon & Spa Institute | — | — | 71 | $12,372 | — |
South Eastern Beauty Academy | — | — | 45 | — | — |
TIGI Hairdressing Academy Guilford | — | — | 52 | $19,952 | — |
University Academy of Hair Design | — | — | 38 | $11,403 | — |
| Peer group median | 61% | — | 53 | $15,709 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
Frequently asked questions about Empire Beauty School-Rochester
Quick answers to the questions most often asked about Empire.
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