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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 (ED) proposed a tighter definition of “professional degrees” for 2025–26 that would shrink programs treated as professional from roughly 2,000 to fewer than 600 and limit e...
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 and its RISE committee recently narrowed which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” agreeing to recognize only 11 primary program categories for higher loan l...
The Department of Education’s 2025–2026 reclassification effort significantly narrowed which degree titles the agency will treat as “professional,” reducing the roster of eligible programs to a small ...
The Department of Education under the Trump administration has proposed narrowing which graduate programs count as “professional” for higher federal loan caps, listing roughly 10–11 fields (medicine, ...
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, implementing provisions of President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” has narrowed which fields qualify as “professional” degrees for higher loan caps — explicitly exclud...
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...
The Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) narrowed the definition of “professional degree” to an explicit list of about 11 core fields and tightl...
The Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking (RISE) process landed on recognizing “11 primary programs” as professional degree categories eligible for the higher loan cap under the One Big Beau...
The Department of Education — implementing provisions of President Trump’s "One Big Beautiful Bill" — has reclassified nursing programs so they are not counted as “professional degrees,” and the law i...
The Department of Education (ED) has proposed — and a department-convened committee has reached consensus on — a much narrower definition of “professional” graduate programs that would reduce eligible...
The Department of Education’s recent rulemaking narrowed which graduate programs count as “professional” for higher federal loan limits; committee drafts recognized 11 primary fields and “some doctora...
The Department of Education’s recent negotiated-rulemaking work would narrow which graduate programs qualify as “professional degrees,” preserving explicit examples like M.D., J.D., M.Div., Pharm.D., ...
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...
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 Department of Education’s recent negotiated-rulemaking work would narrow which programs count as “professional degrees,” and negotiators agreed to recognize only a limited set of primary programs ...
The Department of Education has moved to narrow which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” excluding fields such as nursing from that category and thereby limiting their access to higher...
Legal challenges were widely anticipated and discussed in reporting and stakeholder statements after the Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking reclassified which graduate programs qualify as...