Empire Beauty School-Stone Park

Stone Park, IL · Private for-profit · 118 students · Visit Website

Empire Beauty School-Stone Park primarily trains students for careers in cosmetology and cosmetology instruction, covering skills like haircutting, coloring, styling, makeup, and nail services. The curriculum emphasizes hands-on training using a professional student kit and practice in a student salon environment with real clients. The school also offers job placement assistance through its BeautyCareer.com website, which helps students and alumni create resumes and find career opportunities.

Programs Analyzed

1

Avg Grad Earnings

$17,113/yr

Avg TradeSchoolOutlook Score

42/100

All Programs at Empire Beauty School-Stone Park

1 trade program at Empire Beauty School, ranked by TradeSchoolOutlook Score (combines earnings, ROI, AI resilience, and job market size). Use the “compare” links to see how this school’s programs stack up against others nationally.

Program Score Earnings Debt 10yr ROI AI Risk Job Market
Cosmetology
Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services
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42 $17,113/yr $13,583 Moderate Very Large
145 openings/yr

Reading the table: Score combines earnings, ROI, AI resilience, and job market size on a 0–100 scale. Earnings = median first-year salary from College Scorecard. Debt = median federal debt at graduation (blank where Scorecard suppresses small samples). 10yr ROI = projected 10-year earnings ÷ in-state tuition. AI Risk reflects task-level AI exposure across mapped occupations. Job Market = annual openings nationwide for connected occupations.

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About This Data

TradeSchoolOutlook analyzes 1 trade and vocational programs at Empire Beauty School-Stone Park using earnings data from the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard and employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2024–2034).

The TradeSchoolOutlook Score (0–100) combines graduate earnings, return on investment, AI resilience, and job market size. AI Risk reflects task-level exposure for the occupations each program feeds into. Job Market shows the size of the national hiring pool. Programs without published debt figures had small reporting samples that the College Scorecard suppresses for privacy.

Data: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard (earnings, debt), Bureau of Labor Statistics 2024–2034 (employment projections). Last updated 2026.