Private for-profit · Community college

Empire Beauty School-Gwinnett

Lawrenceville, Georgia · Large suburb

0%
Transfer rate: $16,203
Avg net price: 50%
Grad / completion: $23,589
Median earnings

Empire Beauty School-Gwinnett is a private for-profit certificate-granting institution in Lawrenceville, Georgia (large suburb setting), enrolling 130 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.

Private for-profitSmall · 130 undergradsLarge suburb

About Lawrenceville, Georgia

Lawrenceville is a city in and the county seat of Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States. Lawrenceville was incorporated by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on December 15, 1821. This makes Lawrenceville the second oldest city in the metropolitan Atlanta area. The Old Seminary Building, Isaac Adair House and Gwinnett County Courthouse in Lawrenceville are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. (Wikipedia)

Setting: Large suburb
Highest degree offered: Certificate
Nearest big city: 20 miles to Atlanta, GA
To the ocean: 212 miles
Nearest airport: 11 miles to DeKalb Peachtree (PDK)

How Empire Beauty School-Gwinnett compares

Graduation rate50%

Higher than 37% · #30 of 72 in Georgia

First-year retention82%

Higher than 67%

Earnings, 10 years after entry$23,589

Higher than 13% · #62 of 66 in Georgia

Average net price$16,203

Cheaper than 46% · #41 cheapest of 73 in Georgia

Median debt at graduation$10,231

Lower than 45%

Student–faculty ratio16 : 1

Lower than 49%

Undergraduate enrollment130

Larger than 34%

Percentiles compare Empire Beauty School-Gwinnett with the nation's 3,519 two-year and certificate schools, among schools reporting each statistic. State ranks count two-year and certificate schools in Georgia.

Student body

Undergraduates by gender

Women12495%
Men65%

Undergraduates by race / ethnicity

White3.1%
Black80%
Hispanic11%
Asian0.8%
Other or multiracial5.4%

Graduate gender splits aren't published in this data, so the gender chart covers undergraduates only.

By the numbers

Undergraduate enrollment: 130
Student–faculty ratio: 16 : 1
Pell Grant recipients: 63%
First-generation students: 49%
Students over 25: 37%
Median family income: $14,725

Colleges don't publish true class-size data; student–faculty ratio (IPEDS) is the closest public measure of it.

Where students come from

Home state of the 31 first-year students who entered in fall 2023.

From Georgia100%

Most first-years stay in state — Empire Beauty School-Gwinnett draws overwhelmingly from Georgia.

Out-of-state students usually pay a higher tuition rate at public schools — check the cost card above for your bracket. Source: IPEDS residence & migration, fall 2023 entering class.

Cost

In-state tuition: —
Room & board: —
Total cost of attendance: —
Average net price: $16,203

Outcomes

Graduated: 50%
First-year retention: 82%
Transferred to another college: 0%
Median earnings, 6 years after entry: $21,743
Median earnings, 10 years after entry: $23,589
Median debt at graduation: $10,231
Students with federal loans: 60%
Paying down their loans (1 year in): 19%

Graduating on time

By student background (4 years)

All students

50%

Low-income (Pell)

48%

First-generation

51%

When these bars run close together, students from every background tend to finish at similar rates — a sign the school supports the ~30% who are first-gen or low-income.

Campus life & athletics

On-campus housing: No
Application fee: $125

What you'll actually pay, by family income

Average net price (total cost minus grants and scholarships) paid by aided students in each family-income band.

< $30k

$16,030

$30–48k

$16,295

$48–75k

$15,597

$75–110k

—

$110k+

$21,980

College Scorecard / IPEDS, most recent year. Family income is total household income; net price covers tuition, fees, room, board and supplies after grant aid, for students receiving federal aid.

Does the school pay you to attend?

Grant aid from the school's own funds — the discount off sticker, on top of any federal or state help.

28%

of first-years get a grant from the school

$666

average award, among those who get one

Modest institutional aid: 28% of freshmen get a grant from the school, averaging $666. Most of what lowers the price here is federal or state money, not the school's own funds.

Blends need-based and merit aid — IPEDS doesn't split the two, so a high number can mean generous merit scholarships, deep need-based aid, or both. Figures cover 39 full-time first-year undergraduates, 2022–23. Source: IPEDS Student Financial Aid.

Is it worth it?

A rough return-on-investment read from what graduates earn versus what they borrow.

Median earnings (10 years): $23,589
Typical debt at graduation: $10,231
Debt vs. one year's pay: 43%
Out-earn a HS grad: 27%

Typical debt would take roughly 4.3 years to repay at about a tenth of median earnings.

Solid value

A reasonable return: earnings comfortably clear the debt over a few years for most students who finish.

Earnings are the College Scorecard median for former students (working, not enrolled) 10 years after entry — not a guarantee, and they vary a lot by major. Debt is the median federal loan balance at graduation.

The pay gap here

Median earnings 10 years after entry, split by gender.

Women

$23,772

Men

$22,403

Women out-earn men by $1,369 (6%) a decade out.

Federal figures for former students working and not enrolled, 10 years after they first entered. A gap this wide usually reflects which majors men and women here tend to choose — not different pay for the same job.

Campus climate

Summer high: 89°F
Winter low: 33°F
Annual rain: 51.4″
Annual snow: 0.6″

Average temperature

HighLow

Average precipitation (inches)

NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Atlanta Peachtree AP, GA US station (11.3 mi from campus).

What Empire Beauty School-Gwinnett graduates study — and earn

Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services

36 grads$19k 1 yr$23k 5 yr$14k debt

36$18,639$22,816$13,849

Median earnings of this school's own graduates 1 and 5 years after finishing each program, and median federal-loan debt at completion (College Scorecard). Small programs are privacy-suppressed (—). Click a major to compare colleges nationally.

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Tuition: —
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Source: US Department of Education College Scorecard (most recent cohorts), IPEDS institutional characteristics, Equity in Athletics (EADA) data, Clery Act Campus Safety and Security data, and NOAA US Climate Normals. Distances are straight-line from campus coordinates. Percentiles compare schools of the same level (four-year vs. two-year) that report each statistic.