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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’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 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 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 negotiated rulemaking and subsequent proposal narrowed which degree programs it will treat as “professional,” identifying roughly a dozen primary areas (and some doctoral...
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 (ED) recently proposed a narrow regulatory definition of “professional degree” that ties eligibility for higher federal loan caps to specific criteria—doctoral-level instru...
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 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’s negotiated rulemaking this November produced a proposed regulatory test that would limit which graduate programs qualify as “professional” — tying that label to programs ...
The U.S. Department of Education’s negotiated-rulemaking proposal would sharply narrow which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” shrinking lists from roughly 2,000 to under 600 and rese...
The Department of Education and its RISE committee reached a draft consensus that would recognize “only 11 primary programs” as professional degree programs eligible for higher loan limits under H.R.1...
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’s negotiated rulemaking agreed to recognize 11 primary “professional” programs (plus some doctoral programs) that would qualify for the higher $200,000 loan cap under the O...
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...
The Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking and related implementation of the OBBBA/RISE changes will narrow which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” sharply lowering annual an...
The Department of Education’s recent negotiated rulemaking would narrow which post‑baccalaureate programs qualify as “professional degrees,” affecting loan limits and prompting institutions and associ...
The Department of Education’s recent rulemaking ties the definition of a “professional degree” to several concrete criteria: it must award a professional degree on completion, signify preparation for ...
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...