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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 2025 negotiated-rulemaking and proposals narrowed which graduate programs qualify as “professional degrees,” explicitly keeping roughly 11 fields and using criteria like ...
The Department of Education’s 2025 proposal would narrow “professional degree” status from roughly 2,000 programs to fewer than 600 and recognize only about 11 core fields as professional (medicine, l...
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 negotiated-rulemaking process has proposed a much narrower internal definition of “professional degree” for the 2025–2026 list update that would recognize roughly 11 prim...
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 negotiated rulemaking in November 2025 proposed a much narrower definition of “professional degree” that would make many graduate programs ineligible for the higher loan ...
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...
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...
Estimates published by advocacy groups and some researchers attribute roughly 300,000 excess deaths — “mostly children” — to cuts tied to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a figure repea...
The Department of Education’s November 2025 memo narrowed the formal list of “professional degree” programs used to set new federal graduate loan caps, excluding many commonly recognized fields such a...
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...
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 ...
The Department of Education’s proposed 2025–2026 definition of “professional degrees” dramatically narrows which programs qualify for the higher loan limits created by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, ...
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...
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 2025–2026 Department of Education (ED) guidance substantially narrows which programs count as “professional degrees,” cutting the eligible list from roughly 2,000 programs in prior practice to few...
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 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...