Which specific degrees did the Department of Education reclassify as non-professional in 2025?

1. What the documents you supplied actually cover — process not degree lists

The materials returned by the search primarily concern administrative guidance and operational roll‑out for reclassification or expanded career progression for teachers and school heads: reclassification forms and deadlines, criteria for what credits count toward teacher reclassification, and new DepEd–DBM joint circulars about the career progression system ^{[1] [4] [3]}. These items explain who may apply, what counts as qualifying credits, and organizational memos that commence the reclassification round — they do not enumerate any degrees reclassified as “non‑professional” ^{[1] [2] [3]}.

2. Where reporting is specific — credit eligibility and administrative rules

Several documents and memos cited in your results detail what kinds of course credits are eligible or ineligible for teacher reclassification: for example, Department PD credits approved by curriculum offices are eligible, while credits earned outside employment or academic Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are stated as ineligible in some guidance files ^{[1] [5]}. Those are rules for reclassification credit evaluation, not statements about declared professional vs non‑professional degree status ^{[1] [5]}.

3. Big launches and budgets — context for 2025 reclassification efforts

Independent coverage and local memos emphasize that DepEd launched a system‑wide reclassification effort in 2025 tied to DepEd Order No. 024, s. 2025 and DepEd–DBM Joint Circular No. 01, s. 2025, with a sizeable budget allocation cited for the program (around ₱6.1 billion in reporting) and operational memos calling for applications and orientations ^{[2] [6] [7]}. These items show institutional change and funding priorities but do not equate to academic degree classification changes ^{[2] [7]}.

4. What the sources do not say — no named degrees or “non‑professional” reclassifications

None of the linked guidance documents, memos, or news items in your search results list particular degree programs that were rebranded or reclassified as “non‑professional” in 2025. The exact phrase “non‑professional” applied to specific degrees does not appear in the provided snippets; therefore, available sources do not mention which degrees—if any—were reclassified in that manner (not found in current reporting).

5. Plausible reasons you might be seeing this question — common confusions

Stakeholders often conflate (a) changes to job classification or career progression rules for positions (which these documents cover) with (b) statutory or regulatory reclassification of academic degrees as “professional” vs “non‑professional.” The materials here clearly address (a): position reclassification, credit eligibility, and procedural memos under DepEd Order No. 024 and DepEd–DBM JC No. 01, s. 2025 ^{[3] [2]}. They do not provide evidence of a policy that recategorized specific academic degrees as non‑professional ^{[3] [2]}.

6. How to get a definitive answer — where to look next

To verify whether any degrees were officially reclassified as non‑professional in 2025 you should check: ^[8] formal DepEd policy releases or circulars that explicitly amend degree classifications; ^[9] releases from the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) or the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) if the change involves professional licensure categories; and ^[10] the full text of DepEd–DBM Joint Circular No. 01, s. 2025 and DepEd Order No. 024, s. 2025 for any clause addressing degree statuses — these targeted primary sources are not fully quoted in the provided set, so their contents on degrees are not found in current reporting ^{[3] [2]}.

7. Caveat and transparency about limitations

My assessment relies only on the search results you supplied. If there are other DepEd/CHED/PRC documents, press releases, or full circular texts not included in your set, they may contain the specific degree information you seek. Available sources in this packet do not contain those degree lists or a statement reclassifying particular degrees as non‑professional in 2025 (not found in current reporting).