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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 2026 rulemaking would adopt a much narrower legal definition of “professional degree,” recognizing roughly a small set of traditional fields as professional and excluding...
A “professional degree” in current U.S. policy is primarily an administrative label the Department of Education uses to decide which graduate programs qualify for higher federal loan limits, not an ac...
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 proposed 2025–26 redefinition of “professional degree” would shrink programs considered professional from roughly 2,000 to fewer than 600 and explicitly excludes many hea...
The Department of Education’s negotiated-rulemaking work and proposed 2025 regulatory language narrows which postgraduate programs count as “professional” for higher federal loan caps, moving from rou...
Across decades of surveys and validated scales, patterns are complex but clear: sexual activity declines with age while reported satisfaction is shaped less by chronological decade and more by relatio...
The available reporting shows a recent federal policy change tied to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and Department of Education rulemaking that narrows which graduate programs are treated as “...
Federal and state loan-forgiveness options remain available to many speech‑language pathologists (SLPs): Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) can wipe out federal Direct Loan balances after 120 qual...
The Education Department’s negotiated-rulemaking outcome narrows the federal “professional degree” category to 11 primary programs (plus some doctoral degrees), which determines eligibility for the hi...
The Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking and proposed definition of “professional degree” will determine which graduate programs qualify for higher lifetime and annual federal loan caps — p...
The Department of Education’s proposed redefinition of “professional degree” would remove many health-care and some other fields from that classification — nursing (MSN, DNP), physician assistant, occ...
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 available reporting does not identify any newly “added” professional degrees on a 2025–2026 accredited programs list; instead, multiple outlets describe a Department of Education proposal that wou...
The Department of Education’s 2025–2026 move to narrowly define “professional degrees” would limit explicit “professional” classification to about 11 primary programs and a smaller set of doctoral pro...
The Department of Education’s negotiated proposal in November 2025 would recognize 11 “primary” professional programs eligible for the higher loan caps; those 11 are pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary me...
The Department of Education’s proposed definition of “professional degree” under the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBBA/H.R.1) does directly affect federal student loan limits: programs classified as profe...
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...
There is no universally accepted cure for tinnitus, but several emerging treatments have shown real-world benefit: FDA‑approved bimodal neuromodulation (Lenire) reports a 91.5% responder rate in a cli...
There is no single, nationwide Department of Education action in the provided sources that "reclassifies speech pathologists as not professional." State education departments continue to recognize spe...