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Recent reporting shows a policy change that reclassifies many graduate degrees — including “engineering” — out of a narrow federal list of “professional” degrees for student-loan rules, but broad nati...
Accreditation standards frequently determine whether a graduate’s education counts toward state licensure or professional certification: for example, graduation from an ABET‑accredited engineering pro...
An ABET-accredited engineering degree signals that a program meets profession-set educational standards and is explicitly cited by universities and accreditation bodies as the usual academic prerequis...
There is no single, compiled list in the provided sources naming specific academic degrees that have been de-accredited or that have lost licensing pathways since 2015; reporting and policy documents ...
ABET accreditation evaluates curricula and programs; graduating from an ABET-accredited engineering program is commonly a prerequisite for engineering licensure in many jurisdictions and supports elig...
Accreditation for professional-degree programs is governed by both institutional (regional) accreditors and programmatic bodies such as ABET for engineering and ACPE for PharmD; licensure for graduate...
Licensing boards typically judge whether a degree is “professional” by checking if it prepares graduates to begin practice in a regulated occupation, whether it goes beyond a bachelor’s-level skill se...
Regulators in 2025 tightened definitions to separate “professional” from other programs chiefly by requiring evidence that a program trains students to begin practice in a specific profession and by t...
Accreditation for professional degrees is organized by distinct sectoral bodies with specific rules: medical schools in the U.S. are accredited by the LCME (recognized by the U.S. Department of Educat...