IL
Empire Beauty School-Vernon Hills
40.00 incidents / 1,000 students
Vernon Hills, IL · Clery Act 2024 · Private For-Profit
Empire Beauty School-Vernon Hills
Empire Beauty School-Vernon Hills reported zero incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section for 2022–2024. Other Clery tables can still contain reports, and zero here does not mean no risk.
- 40.00
- Incidents / 1k students
- 50
- Enrolled students
40.00 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Empire Beauty School-Vernon Hills reported zero 2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents in the score categories (0.00 per 1,000). Zero in those categories is not a safety proof, other Clery tables and unreported harm can still exist, and zero-report campuses are left unranked against each other.
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- incidents / 1,000 students
- 40.00
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 0
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 481739 · Empire Beauty School-Vernon Hills 40.00/1k score rate
RATE-HOT · RANK-UNK · ST-UNK · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-SMALL · TREND-FLAT · CAT-NONE · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-NONE
- RATE-HOT 40.00/1k
- RANK-UNK Nat rank n/a
- ST-UNK State rank n/a
- ABOVE-PEER M J Murphy Beauty · +40.00
- ZERO-SMALL <500 enrolled
- TREND-FLAT Flat
- CAT-NONE No incidents
- ENR-SMALL 50
- FIRE-NONE No res filing
Nearest enrollment peer: M J Murphy Beauty College of Mount Pleasant (-40.00/1k)
Empire Beauty School-Vernon Hills sheet RATE-HOT · RANK-UNK · ST-UNK · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-SMALL · TREND-FLAT · CAT-NONE · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-NONE · peer M J Murphy Beauty College of Mount Pleasant. Codes from this campus OPE filing: score-category rate, national/state rank, named enrollment peer, zero posture, Criminal Offenses trend, lead category, enrollment band, fire filing. Not a moving recommendation.
Clery plate RATE-HOT · RANK-UNK · ST-UNK · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-SMALL · TREND-FLAT · CAT-NONE · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-NONE. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is M J Murphy Beauty College of Mount Pleasant (-40.00/1k). Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Empire Beauty School-Vernon Hills reported zero 2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents in the score categories (0.00 per 1,000). Zero in those categories is not a safety proof, other Clery tables and unreported harm can still exist, and zero-report campuses are left unranked against each other.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Empire Beauty School-Vernon
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Empire on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- M J Murphy Beauty · lowest peer 0
M J Murphy Beauty College of Mount Pleasant — lowest peer
0 per 1,000 students
- Keene Beauty Academy · near 0
Keene Beauty Academy — near
0 per 1,000 students
- Choffin Career and · near 0
Choffin Career and Technical Center — near
0 per 1,000 students
- Empire Beauty School-Vernon Hills · this campus · highest
Empire Beauty School-Vernon Hills — this campus · highest
40 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Empire Beauty School-Vernon Hills's 40.00/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Empire Beauty School-Vernon Hills was unchanged from 0 to 0 reported on-campus incidents between the 2023 and 2024 reporting years in the U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey.
This is a change in reported incidents, not a measure of individual safety. Enrollment, reporting practice, and category coverage can affect the count.
See national reporting-year changesSignature insight · size does not equal danger
Campus size vs reported safety rate
Among 37 IL Less than 2-year peers in this comparison, Empire Beauty School-Vernon Hills is larger than 33% and safer-reporting than 0% - the smaller, higher-reporting quadrant. Axes are within-sample percentiles so outliers share the same frame; a higher safety percentile means a lower Clery incidents-per-1,000 rate.
Read the chart as text
- Point 1: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 36, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 39, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 39, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 44, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 44, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 50, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 31, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 58, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 61, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 28, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 22, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 22, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 64, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 19, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 67, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 18: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 69, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 19: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 69, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 20: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 17, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 21: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 14, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 22: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 75, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 23: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 11, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 24: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 8, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 25: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 6, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 26: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 3, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 27: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 78, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 28: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 81, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 29: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 81, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 30: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 31: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 86, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 32: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 89, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 33: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 92, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 34: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 94, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 35: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 97, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 36: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Empire Beauty School-Verno…: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 33, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
Read the chart as a table
| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Touch Cosmetology School | 16 | 0.00 | 0 | 3 |
| Americare Technical School | 25 | 0.00 | 3 | 3 |
| Larry's Barber College-Joliet | 27 | 0.00 | 6 | 3 |
| Larry's Barber College | 29 | 0.00 | 8 | 3 |
| Cosmetology Concepts Niles | 31 | 0.00 | 11 | 3 |
| Illinois Media School | 32 | 0.00 | 14 | 3 |
| Capri Beauty College | 33 | 0.00 | 17 | 3 |
| Career Center of Southern Illinois | 36 | 0.00 | 19 | 3 |
| The University of Aesthetics & Cosmetology | 39 | 0.00 | 22 | 3 |
| Phipps Academy of Barbering | 39 | 0.00 | 22 | 3 |
| Reflections Academy of Beauty | 40 | 0.00 | 28 | 3 |
| Empire Beauty School-Vernon Hills (this campus) | 50 | 40.00 | 33 | 0 |
Sample of 12 campuses from the plot (sorted by enrollment). Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey + IPEDS enrollment. Rate = on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 students; lower is safer-reporting, not a personal-risk forecast.
Crime Statistics by Year
The Criminal Offenses section for Empire Beauty School-Vernon Hills is all zeros for 2024, 2023, 2022 - under Clery those are affirmative "no incident" reports, not missing rows. Enrollment peer in this dataset: M J Murphy Beauty College of Mount Pleasant.
Source: US Dept of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey. Zero-filled category grids are omitted when every cell is zero (progressive surface); other Clery tables remain below when present
Arrests & Disciplinary Actions
9 category-year records| Category | Year | Arrests | Discipline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
Empire Beauty School-Vernon Hills vs peer institutions
Side-by-side safety scores for 3 peers of similar enrollment
Scores are $2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students (lower is fewer in those categories).
MI
M J Murphy Beauty College of Mount Pleasant
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
NH
Keene Beauty Academy
0.00 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where Empire Beauty School-Vernon Hills sits on price and outcomes
At $14,906, Empire Beauty School-Vernon Hills's reported average net price is cheaper than 49% among 178 Illinois colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $15,405.
- $14,906
- average net price
- $15,405
- Illinois median
- 1.5×
- six-year earnings to median debt
- $5,170
- reported income-bracket spread
Net price moves with income here, but not sharply: $14,510 for families reporting under $30,000 against $19,680 above $110,000, a difference of $5,170. Aid narrows the gap without closing it, so the $14,906 average sits reasonably close to what most brackets report.
Median earnings six years after entry ($20,172) are less than 1.4 years of the reported net price. That is a thin margin, and it is the figure worth pressing the school on before enrolling. 64% complete within six years, so roughly 36% leave without the credential - and those students still carry whatever they paid.
Average net price reflects grant and scholarship aid for aided students, not a personal offer. Earnings cover former students who received federal aid; neither measure predicts an individual's outcome.
Academic & Financial Profile
Outcomes
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $20,172
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $24,407
- Loan Repayment (3yr)
- 35%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 918 similar institutions by enrollment size.
M J Murphy Beauty College of Mount Pleasant
Mount Pleasant, MI · 50 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Keene Beauty Academy
Keene, NH · 50 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Choffin Career and Technical Center
Youngstown, OH · 50 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Stylemaster College of Hair Design
Longview, WA · 50 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Academy of Cosmetology
Merritt Island, FL · 50 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Nationwide campuses with similar scale or Clery rate
Two Clery-derived peer sets for Empire Beauty School-Vernon Hills, both outside IL so the neighborhoods are not state containment (Similar Institutions and national-rank neighbors above stay enrollment- or rank-based).
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
Apollo Career Center
Lima, OH · 646 enrolled
Safety score 6.19
Arclabs
Piedmont, SC · 744 enrolled
Safety score 5.38
UEI College-Tacoma
Tacoma, WA · 689 enrolled
Safety score 4.35
Tulsa Welding School-Houston
Houston, TX · 1,962 enrolled
Safety score 3.57
Milan Institute-Bakersfield
Bakersfield, CA · 582 enrolled
Safety score 3.44
National Holistic Institute
Emeryville, CA · 1,258 enrolled
Safety score 3.18
UEI College-Garden Grove
Garden Grove, CA · 1,073 enrolled
Safety score 2.80
UEI College-Huntington Park
Huntington Park, CA · 1,079 enrolled
Safety score 2.78
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Empire Beauty School-Vernon Hills safe?
Empire Beauty School-Vernon Hills has a safety score of 40.00 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students). With 50 enrolled students it sits under the 500-student ranking cutoff; a size peer on file is M J Murphy Beauty College of Mount Pleasant. Same-state same-level set: Cannella School of Hair Design-Villa Park (0.00/1k); Educators of Beauty College of Cosmetology-Peru (0.00/1k); Ms Roberts Academy of Beauty Culture (0.00/1k); Professional's Choice Hair Design Academy (0.00/1k); University of Aesthetics & Cosmetology (0.00/1k); Networks Barber College (0.00/1k); Hair Professionals Career College (0.00/1k); Rosel School of Cosmetology (0.00/1k).
What crimes are reported at Empire Beauty School-Vernon Hills?
None in the Criminal Offenses section. Empire Beauty School-Vernon Hills reported zero in every category in that section for calendar year 2024. VAWA, arrests, disciplinary referrals, and fire records are separate tables.
How does Empire Beauty School-Vernon Hills compare to similar schools?
A similar-enrollment comparison point is M J Murphy Beauty College of Mount Pleasant at 0.00 score-category incidents per 1,000 in IL; same-state same-level scored peers include Cannella School of Hair Design-Villa Park (0.00/1k); Educators of Beauty College of Cosmetology-Peru (0.00/1k); Ms Roberts Academy of Beauty Culture (0.00/1k); Professional's Choice Hair Design Academy (0.00/1k); University of Aesthetics & Cosmetology (0.00/1k); Networks Barber College (0.00/1k); Hair Professionals Career College (0.00/1k); Rosel School of Cosmetology (0.00/1k).
Does Empire Beauty School-Vernon Hills have fire safety data?
Empire Beauty School-Vernon Hills has no on-campus residential fire filing in this Clery release.
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