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The Department of Education (DoE) under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act has proposed a narrower regulatory definition of “professional degree” that removes a long list of health‑care, education, and ot...
As of 20 Nov 2025, the U.S. Department of Education — implementing provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) — proposed a narrowed regulatory definition of “professional degree” that would ...
Classification as a “professional degree” under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) affects how much federal borrowing a student can access: professional students will be eligible for higher annual...
The Department of Education’s 2025 memo and proposed rulemaking narrow the list of programs deemed “professional,” cutting eligible programs from roughly 2,000 to under 600 and creating much lower loa...
The Department of Education’s 2025–2026 guidance sharply narrows which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” recognizing roughly 11 primary program categories and some doctoral programs w...
The Department of Education’s recent rulemaking effort and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act implementation have prompted a new, narrower administrative definition of which academic programs count as “pr...
A proposed Education Department definition of “professional degree” would exclude audiology and speech‑language pathology and thereby affect which students qualify for higher lifetime federal loan lim...
The Department of Education, implementing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), and its RISE negotiated rulemaking committee have proposed a new, narrower regulatory definition of “professional degr...
The Department of Education’s 2026 proposed definition sharply narrows which graduate programs count as “professional,” explicitly excluding a swath of health and social‑service degrees while listing ...
The Department of Education has publicly circulated a proposal redefining which post‑baccalaureate programs qualify as “professional degrees,” a change with sweeping loan‑limit consequences that repor...
The Department of Education (ED) proposed narrowing its internal definition of “professional degrees,” moving from a broad list of roughly 2,000 programs down to under 600 in public accounts and recog...
The U.S. Department of Education’s proposed definition of “professional degree” for student‑loan rules tied to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) would not include audiology and speech‑language pa...
The Department of Education’s proposed rule would narrow which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” reserving the higher federal loan caps (up to $50,000/yr, $200,000 lifetime) for a lim...
Alumni whose degrees were once aligned with credentialing or practice expectations may face new funding and classification problems after the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed redefinition of “p...
The Department of Education’s 2025 memo (and related drafts) lists a narrowly defined set of graduate programs as “professional degrees” — examples repeatedly cited include medicine, dentistry, pharma...
Governments and agencies have shifted degree-classification rules recently largely for fiscal and program-administration reasons tied to new federal loan limits in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB...
The Department of Education (ED) has proposed a narrow, criteria-based definition of “professional degree” that would limit eligibility for the new higher graduate loan caps to programs that meet seve...
Federal redefinition of “professional degree” under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) affects federal student-loan limits—not state licensing rules—and therefore changes financing for many health...
The Department of Education (ED) has proposed and circulated a new, narrower definition of “professional degree” tied to implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), using criteria such a...
Reclassification of degree programs — such as the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed definition that would exclude audiology and speech‑language pathology from “professional degree” status — coul...