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The Department of Education’s negotiated-rulemaking (RISE) draft sharply narrows which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” recognizing roughly 11 primary professions and a subset of doc...
The Department of Education under the Trump administration has moved to stop classifying many graduate nursing programs as “professional degrees,” a change that affects loan caps and borrowing access ...
President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” and a related Department of Education rule change removed nursing and several other health programs from the department’s list of “professional degree...
There is no sourced record in the provided reporting that former President Donald Trump said nurses are “not professional professionals” or used that exact phrase; available reporting shows the Depart...
The U.S. Department of Education, implementing parts of the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), has proposed and begun to apply a narrowed definition of “professional” degrees that removes multip...
The Department of Education’s RISE committee and draft regulatory text would sharply narrow which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” reducing roughly 2,000 program entries to fewer tha...
The Department of Education’s late‑2025 proposal narrows its list of “professional degree” programs to about 11 fields — removing many graduate programs that had previously been treated as professiona...
The Department of Education’s late‑2025 proposal would remove hundreds of programs from its internal “professional degree” list—cutting the list from roughly 2,000 programs to under 600—and specifical...
Federal rulemaking in late 2025 by the U.S. Department of Education proposes a new definition of “professional degree” that, according to multiple nursing organizations, would exclude many graduate nu...
The Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act and related Department of Education guidance reclassify many nursing graduate and advanced programs so they are no longer listed among “profession...
The Department of Education under the Trump administration moved to narrow which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” excluding many healthcare, education and service fields from that de...
The Department of Education’s 2025 proposal dramatically narrows which graduate programs qualify as “professional degrees,” cutting a list reported at roughly 2,000 programs to fewer than 600 and reco...
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 late‑2025 guidance or proposal would exclude many graduate and postbaccalaureate programs from a narrow federal definition of “professional degree,” listing fields such a...
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 negotiated rulemaking in November 2025 produced a much narrower regulatory definition of “professional degree” that recognizes 11 primary fields (including medicine, dent...
The Department of Education’s 2025 proposal sharply narrows which graduate programs count as “professional,” cutting the list from about 2,000 to fewer than 600 and recognizing only 11 primary program...
The Department of Education under the Trump administration has moved to narrow the federal definition of “professional degree,” a change that multiple outlets report excludes nursing and several other...
Reporting shows the Department of Education under the Trump administration proposed or was reported to be narrowing what it counts as a “professional degree,” and several outlets list programs—most pr...
The Department of Education’s RISE committee and related Trump administration rulemaking in November 2025 proposed a much narrower definition of “professional degrees,” cutting the list from roughly 2...