New York, NY · Private for-profit · College Scorecard data · Updated September 10, 2026
Empire Beauty School-Manhattan is a private for-profit institution in New York, NY, where the highest award offered is a certificate. It enrolls about 388 undergraduate students, with a student-faculty ratio of 22:1. The school is listed in the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard, which is the source for every figure on this page.
Official website: www.empire.edu
The published tuition for the largest program at Empire Beauty School-Manhattan is $14,250 per year. This is the figure the Department of Education collects for schools whose students are concentrated in a single program, rather than a school-wide in-state rate.
For context, the average in-state tuition at the 272 New York colleges that do report one is $22,694.
| College | Type | Undergraduates | Tuition |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York University | Private nonprofit | 28,663 | $62,796 |
| CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College | Public | 18,623 | $5,170 |
| CUNY Hunter College | Public | 16,289 | $7,382 |
| CUNY Bernard M Baruch College | Public | 16,154 | $7,464 |
| CUNY City College | Public | 12,505 | $7,340 |
| CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice | Public | 11,590 | $7,470 |
Tuition is in-state tuition for schools that report one, otherwise the published tuition for the largest program. Source: College Scorecard.
| Median earnings 10 years after enrolling | $24,022 |
| Graduation rate (within 150% of normal time) | 51% |
| Median debt among graduates who borrowed | $10,667 |
| Undergraduates receiving Pell grants | 71% |
| Undergraduates aged 25 and over | 38% |
| First-generation students | 51% |
Source: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard. Earnings and debt figures cover students who received federal financial aid.
The published tuition for Empire Beauty School-Manhattan's largest program is $14,250 per year, according to College Scorecard. Program-level tuition is reported instead of a school-wide rate when a school's enrollment is concentrated in one program.
Empire Beauty School-Manhattan enrolls about 388 undergraduate students. The student-faculty ratio is 22:1.
Empire Beauty School-Manhattan is a private for-profit institution in New York, NY. Its highest award is a certificate, according to College Scorecard.
College Scorecard reports in-state tuition for first-time, full-time undergraduates. Empire Beauty School-Manhattan does not report such a cohort to the federal survey, so no school-wide rate is published — typically because the school serves transfer, returning or part-time students, or reports tuition by program instead.
Median earnings ten years after enrolling at Empire Beauty School-Manhattan are $24,022 a year, according to College Scorecard.
The median debt among Empire Beauty School-Manhattan graduates who borrowed is $10,667, according to College Scorecard.