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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 negotiated-rulemaking proposal and related guidance drastically narrowed which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” removing many health, education and othe...
The Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking and subsequent proposal narrowed which degree programs it will treat as “professional,” identifying roughly a dozen primary areas (and some doctoral...
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...
The Department of Education’s RISE committee has drafted a narrow regulatory definition of “professional degree” that ties the category to specific fields, program length and licensure pathways — a ch...
Federal courts have blocked or temporarily halted multiple Trump 2025-era executive actions — including at least one campus-accountability policy that a U.S. district court in Massachusetts enjoined o...
The Department of Education’s 2025 rulemaking process narrowed the category of “professional degree” programs to a short list of fields and applied a new definition tied to program length and licensur...
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 in 2025 changed how it will define “professional degrees,” narrowing eligibility and potentially reducing access to higher federal loan limits for m...
The Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) narrowed which programs count as “professional degrees,” producing a draft that recognizes only about 1...
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 Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking (RISE) process landed on recognizing “11 primary programs” as professional degree categories eligible for the higher loan cap under the One Big Beau...
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...
The Department of Education’s 2026 negotiated-rulemaking work significantly narrows which graduate programs qualify as “professional degrees,” cutting the prior list from roughly 2,000 to under 600 an...
The Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking and related implementation of the OBBBA/RISE changes will narrow which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” sharply lowering annual an...
The Department of Education’s 2024–2025 negotiated rulemaking work and a November 2025 proposal narrowed the agency’s working list of “professional degree” programs — causing multiple health, educatio...
The Department of Education’s recent RISE/OBBBA proposal would narrow which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” effectively excluding many fields often treated as professional (nursing ...
Degree reclassifications proposed by the Department of Education under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act would narrow the list of “professional degrees,” lowering graduate loan caps from professional-pro...
The Department of Education’s recent negotiated-rulemaking proposal would sharply narrow which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” removing many health‑and‑service fields — notably nurs...
The Department of Education’s recent rulemaking tied to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) will change which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” and those changes are scheduled to t...