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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 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 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...
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...
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...
Available reporting shows the 2025 “professional degree” reclassification debate centered on federal loan rules that would leave fields such as nursing, social work, counseling, and education off an i...
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The Department of Education’s recent rulemaking and related implementation of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBBA) tie which graduate programs count as “professional degrees” to higher federal loan li...
The Department of Education’s recent rule changes would exclude many nursing degrees from its regulatory definition of “professional degree,” a move that federal regulators and nursing groups say will...
The Department of Education’s late‑November 2025 implementation of parts of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” narrowed its list of graduate programs it labels “professional,” explicitly naming medicine, ph...
The Department of Education’s recent removal of nursing from its list of “professional degree” programs is being linked primarily to changes in federal student-loan rules—most immediately lowering ann...
The Department of Education’s recent redefinition of which graduate programs qualify as “professional” would sharply shrink who can access higher loan limits and certain graduate-specific federal aid,...
The Department of Education (ED) in 2025 adopted a narrower regulatory definition of “professional degree” that ties status to multiple criteria: program prepares for beginning practice and a level of...
The Department of Education’s November 2025 negotiated rulemaking narrowed which post‑baccalaureate programs count as “professional degrees,” shrinking the set of eligible programs from roughly 2,000 ...
The Department of Education’s RISE committee narrowed which degree programs count as “professional,” effectively cutting the universe from roughly 2,000 programs to fewer than 600 and limiting the set...
The Department of Education’s negotiated-rulemaking draft narrowed what counts as a “professional degree” to a shorter list and set criteria tied to skill beyond a bachelor’s degree, CIP codes, paths ...
The Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking (RISE committee) produced a tighter, criteria-driven definition of “professional degree” that would sharply shrink the list of programs eligible for...