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The Department of Education’s 2025 negotiated-rulemaking and proposals narrowed which graduate programs qualify as “professional degrees,” explicitly keeping roughly 11 fields and using criteria like ...
Federal documents and contemporary reporting show that the U.S. Department of Education’s long-standing regulatory definition of “professional degree” (dating to the 1960s) did not explicitly list nur...
Major news outlets and multiple reporting outlets say the Department of Education under the Trump administration changed its regulatory list of what it calls “professional” degree programs, excluding ...
The Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking in November 2025 proposed a much narrower definition of “professional degree” that would make many graduate programs ineligible for the higher loan ...
The Department of Education’s new, narrower definition of “professional degree” would shrink the set of graduate programs eligible for higher federal loan caps and thus reduce borrowing capacity for m...
The Department of Education’s 2025 proposal narrows which graduate programs qualify as “professional degrees,” explicitly keeping roughly 10–11 traditional fields (medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, law, ...
The Department of Education’s 2026 rulemaking would adopt a much narrower legal definition of “professional degree,” recognizing roughly a small set of traditional fields as professional and excluding...
A “professional degree” in current U.S. policy is primarily an administrative label the Department of Education uses to decide which graduate programs qualify for higher federal loan limits, not an ac...
Coverage from multiple outlets shows the U.S. Department of Education, under President Donald Trump’s administration and its “One Big Beautiful Bill” implementation, moved to exclude nursing (MSN, DNP...
The Department of Education’s recent move to omit several fields — notably nursing, public health, social work and some allied health professions — from its working list of “professional degrees” affe...
The Department of Education’s negotiators have proposed a narrower definition of “professional degree” tied to implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA/H.R.1), which would cut the numbe...
The Department of Education’s negotiated-rulemaking committee in November 2025 agreed on a much narrower definition of “professional degree” that would leave many graduate programs out of the higher f...
The Department of Education’s negotiated-rulemaking work for implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) would sharply narrow which graduate programs count as “professional” for higher lo...
The Biden-to-Trump policy change most prominently reported in November 2025 was a Department of Education redefinition that removes many nursing graduate programs (including nurse practitioner tracks)...
Federal regulators implementing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA/H.R.1) reworked the Education Department’s regulatory definition of “professional degree” in November 2025, narrowing which gradua...
If federal policy removes “professional-degree” status from nursing, immediate documented consequences in reporting and statements focus on reduced graduate loan access and potential harm to recruitme...
Trump-era actions and the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” changed federal regulatory posture and student-loan definitions that directly affect nursing education and practice: the Department of Education’...
Since 2020 many U.S. institutions — from small private colleges to large public systems and some research universities — have announced program eliminations, consolidations, or pauses; examples includ...
The Department of Education’s negotiated draft would narrow the set of programs eligible as “professional degrees,” recognizing only 11 primary fields plus some doctoral programs and thereby excluding...
Reclassifying a degree from “professional” to non‑professional can reduce student loan limits, block access to certain federal loans, and change institutional and program eligibility for Title IV aid;...